One of London's best gay clubs with famous DJs and handsome guys. Go-gos to fall and sound system to explode your eardrums. This huge club with 4 dance rooms and 6 bars hosts the Onyx party on Friday and the Beyond after party on Sunday morning. Leather and bear bar, Eagle hosts the Triga Porn night on Thursday in cooperation with the porn label Triga, and especially the Horse Meat Disco night on Sunday, with an improbable mix of gym-queens, bears, pussycats and handsome guys who come to sway to the hip mixes. RVT was voted best London cabaret this year, and no one would miss the S.L.A.G.S / Chill Out tea-dance on Sunday afternoon and the D.E. People come here to drink pints and laugh at the half-burlesque, half-Ab Fab shows of drag-queens, each more delirious than the other. This 19th century pub is the epicenter of Vauxhall. Just to go from London clubbing to London of the Queen. It's the place to come to relax after a night of intense clubbing or while waiting for the first subwayĪlternatively, you can walk back along the banks of the Thames to Westminster and Big Ben, a 25-minute walk away. Vauxhall is also home to one of the most popular saunas in the gay community, Chariots.
Bears, leather, cabaret, house, techno or afters, the party is in full swing from Monday to SundayĮach day of the week has its own party (see next page). In a few years, Vauxhall has become the favorite clubbing place for London gays. Royal Vauxhall Tavern (RVT), Area, Barcode, Eagle, Fire, The Hoist. Most of them are located right next to the subway and under the red brick arches of the train tracks. Or to work out at the Paris Gym, long the only exclusively gay sports club in London.īut if there's not much going on during the day, the neighborhood comes alive at night when all the gay bars and clubs open their doors. Usually, one ventures into the area to admire the incredible collection of British classical painters, from Gainsborough to Turner, at the Tate Britain just across the Thames. At first glance, when you come out of the Vauxhall subway station, the area doesn't look like much.