The Dragon Bar

Nice place for a cocktail, beer and dance downstairs. Recommend coming on Thursday so it's not crawded.

Local corner restaurant bar with nice low key vibe with great food. Cool old Bowie playing in the background with an eclectic crowd. Will come back again.

4.5 stars really but 5 since it's Christmas time and I'm generous like that. I really like Dragon - I've walked past before but always thought it looked a bit "meh". On reflection - it's really worthwhile popping in. At about 8 on a Thursday, it was pretty chilled. By 10, it was getting quite rowdy and fun. The music had cranked up, they were playing the weirdest mix of music (old school funk and a collection of other sporadic hits) but it was getting the crowd moving a bit.

Cocktails were good - I sampled the mojito and moved onto spiced rum DC - well made and tasty. Staff were friendly and service was fast. Many chuckles about the seriousness of the door staff - no smiles there - these guys take their job to a whole new level of serious (think bulletproof style vests) - yes, I'm for real.

Definitely coming back. I likey.

Colour me impressed -- you guys were working your tails off behind those boarded up windows!

Three visits and approximately six cocktails later (it got fuzzy after that), it's fair to say that you've masterfully kept enough of your street art charm of the old locale, but you've upped the maturity level with the intimate new brick adorned space. I'm not sure if your license to rock was revoked, but I did see a great event space below ... granted, it was adorned with some type of antler action, but hell, Moose can rock, right?

Look at you -- you're all growns' up!

Newly opened, and from what I can tell, newly revamped, the Dragon Bar remains an important fixture in the everything that is the Shoreditch scene.

Okay, that's probably not true, but it did offer a damn fine time to a little gaggle of girls looking to get their drink on in the early evening hours. We stumbled (literally) in here after throwing a few back at a little hole in the wall down the street and this was the perfect little place to continue the fun.

Nice and dark, exposed brick (my fave!) and a nice bartender who suggested a nice glass of white. The prices seemed decent with 3 drinks for 10.30 and we definitely enjoyed our time here.

They also have a downstairs room that would be fantastic for a larger party or birthday. Didn't try the food, but when you have booze, why bother with the other food groups, hehe.

Enjoy!

Favorite bar during my travels in London! The bartenders are awesome- super personable, funny & helpful! The bar had everything we were feeling plus some liquors I'm glad I got to try. Solid drafts too- IPAs weren't exactly way to come by around Kensington and Chelsea where I was staying but Dragon Bar had one on draft that become a fast favorite. Table seating was comfortable and sported a good ambiance for groups as well. Go check it out!

This used to be a great bar in an off street off Old Street; so dirty that you opened the doors with your feet rather than touching them and with a dodgy back courtyard backing onto a football pitch. Then overnight it gets ripped down and eventually reopened on shoreditch high street.

Unfortunately it is a pastiche of its old self. Fat DJ with fingers stubbing an ipod, a bar full of baldies imagining they were 21 and an attempt to be an edgy wetherspoons decor. No.

The Dragon bar is dark, sexy and intimate. Sounds like a great place for a date? Yes it is. Set over two floors with scattered tables and chairs upstairs and booth seating downstairs, the atmosphere is cosy. Dragon bar is not gothic yet I can't help but think of gothic vampires whilst I'm here, when really I'm only surround by the epitome of Shoreditch twattery. This is no longer a negative thing, as I love spending time in Shoreditch with the weird and colourful types that roll through.

The drinks and cocktails are served to a good standard, and the food selection though not extensive has an impressive contemporary twist to it.

I visited on a Tuesday night and there was a comfortable crowd. I'm looking forward to coming again on a party weekend.

Dragon Bar, Leonard St RIP. Dragon Bar, Shoreditch hello!

Once Lizzie had established that our pre-karaoke drink was going to be at the new Dragon Bar, we all managed to arrive at this little venue without too much problem.

We headed to the more cozy downstairs area and enjoyed some decent cocktails. We almost tried some food but decided to move on.

Nice place to chill and chat

Ah Dragon Bar. Dark on the bottom, hope on top.

This place has never blown my socks off, but if you're looking for a spot on the same block as Cargo that's not as Cargo-y as Cargo you could do worse. Cocktails are normally priced and as good as you would hope for.

As for the dining during the day (open at 12 pm), I'd put it in the same category as Juno up the street; functional but not necessarily fun. They have free wi-fi, but you've got to get it an hour at a time from the bar.