Jetlag Sports Bar

Cant speak for the food. But they had great beer on tap. Even had Sam Adams Boston Lager. I was here during off hours so it was quiet. Kind of small but friendly. More like an American sports bar than English pub with seating at bar.

We went here to watch the cricket. We were first to arrive in the bar and several times during the hammer they kept changing the channel until eventually they wouldn’t change it back. Don’t bother if you want to watch English sport.

I came here on a Friday night for Scotland vs Ireland at football — on my own — hoping to find a bit of atmosphere, fellow Scotland fans, and a bar I could get to within 5 minutes. I got all of these; there were a couple of reserved tables, however plenty space for those of us coming off the street. However, I would say this is more to do with the game that was on than the venue itself.
Whilst my experience is limited to the downstairs area, there is a «main» upstairs bar which I didn’t really experience. However, it does seem to be a couple of smaller areas meaning that any significant game (such as a big Premier League match, Champions League game, or England International) is likely to be packed out — especially, if like me, you happened to come on a midweek evening after work hours.
Downstairs was fine for what I needed, though. It wasn’t too busy, but enough fellow Scots to make a good atmosphere. The bar staff were friendly, and the bar is situated in view of the main projector wide-​screen, but not so much that you’re impeding the view of the game for others. There were a handful of lagers and ales to choose from, though the ale I wanted to try was out with no indication of the fact other than the bar staff telling everyone. Stick a glass over the pump! They had a typical sports bar food menu; burgers, fried gubbins, sandwiches… nothing special, though I didn’t try any of it.
It seems to be prices and marketed to the surrounding office-​workers, a «premium» sports bar which you can book a table at, and pay £5 for a pint of Asahi. Whilst this up-​market style is nice in practice, it was no more or less classy than your average sports bar. Just pricey, Still, different from the tightly-​packed pubs in the area, where you’re craning your neck to get a view of the screen. There were numerous screens downstairs, too, showing other matches if you were interested. Also, they advertised a huge range of sports, stretching as far as US College Football if you were that way inclined.
So if you’re in this particular area, and need to catch a game that isn’t the most popular event of the night, this is probably a good spot — though I’d be wary of the tight rooms and high prices if you came on a big Super Sunday or similar. Decent, and I will probably look into it for the next Scotland game, since I enjoyed my conversations with friendly strangers.

Your spot for American sports in London, specifically American College Football! My amazing wife found this place while searching for a bar in London show the Auburn University vs. Mississippi State University [American] football game. It was a huge game and I wanted to see it, so she was kind enough to join me here for a couple beers at the start of the game.
There are two floors, the upstairs seems to be a tradition English pub-​type of place, with the Americans, with their rowdiness and slow-​moving, stop-​and-​go football, placed in the secluded basement level (I say this sarcastically, we did not actually feel offended by this). The downstairs portion has multiple TVs, its own bar, lots of speakers, and mood lighting. You can sit at tables or several large leather couches in front of the large projection screen.
The beer selection was very good, in my opinion. I’m a big fan of Paulaner pilsner, which they had on tap, along with several American beers (Sam Adams, Kona Longboard, and some others) They also have several bottled selections, including La Trappe Triple, a great Belgian Trappist beer, which was a pleasant surprise to find here. They know the American palate!
If you’re planning on watching a specific game, I would get in touch with them first to ensure it is on. I e-​mailed a few days before, and was almost immediately responded to. Great communication. Unfortunately, I didn’t know groups could rent out specific screens in the bar, or make reservations. On this particular night, much of the bar was occupied by a Notre Dame alumni group, that had rented out the big screen. It got quite crowded and was hard to get around. We were able to see the Auburn game, though, in high definition on our choice of three wall-​mounted TVs, so it was still a good experience.
Since we were unable to get a table, we did not try the food. But overall the service was friendly, and the experience was pretty good. If I find myself in London on a critical football Saturday night again, I’ll definitely come back.

We looked online to see who was showing the «American Football» game and found Jetlag Sports Bar. We didn’t know that it was on basic cable so we ended up here. It was pretty easy to get to by the tube and then walking from the station. There’s a nice small upstairs area and a larger downstairs lounge that looks like a man cave. There is a large projector and some smaller tvs on the side. There’s a ton of drink options which is nice (including the passion fruit mojito with actual PASSIONFRUIT! AHH!) Unfortunately the drinks and food are super pricey and not quite worth the effort it took to come here. We had some food and left at half time. The staff was pleasant and the facilities were clean, but we probably won’t be back.

Love this bar for anything sports related! Downstairs has a massive flat screen with comfy sofas and a pool table with low lighting. Beer on tap isnt great, dont think they clean the lines regularly enough but great sports bar! Eaten there a few times food was good for price paid

Sunday evening: if you are italian it means one thing above everything else: football.
I-​m not a football fan, but having italian friends mean that on this day you will watch some football.
In particular, we wanted to watch italian football, not that easy to find in a place where football was invented (you know, they usually broadcast this premier league, maybe you heard about it…)… Lucky us some good guy created an application for people like me, matchpint, and thanks to that we came up discovering this place.
From outside… it seems more of a gentleman’s club rather than a football fans pub! There’s even a lovely girl who is inviting you to come inside…
But actually the place is cool! a bit trendy for football, but it has a projector downstairs and three tv screens at the ground level, with three different matches! Actually they were so nice they changed one of the matches for the italian one, they even turned on italian commentary (Sky)!
Beers… Oh Yes, A pub with no english beers! (Sorry pals, your beer sucks. It really does, I’m sorry!). They have Paulaner, which is always a nice drink, and Asahi, the japanese beer you usually have in a sushi bar… nice!
The food is delicious: really, it’s far over the average pub food you can find around, quesadilla it’s incredible!
The only bad thing: last round at 22.30… come on, most of the time I still have to finish my dinner at 22.30, and you are asking me for a last round!?! I hate you people!

It has screens, sky sports and a good selection of world beers. And it feels like a house extension.
That’s probably all you need to know. Come here to watch sports with a beer. If you want anything other than that, best go somewhere else.

The area is a bit of a no mans land and it looks a little uninspiring from the outside. I was dubious when i walked in too but it has a huge widescreen downstairs with comfy sofas and tables. Staff were super friendly and pub menu food i expected to be ordinary was really really tasty and seemed freshly made.

Cheers Unilocal for helping us find a place to watch the Chelsea v. Manchester City match this past weekend! This definitely caters to an international crowd, which was nice for us Americans :) We were down in the Lotus Lounge watching the match on the projector, but also catching a quick glimpse at the small tvs for the American football game that was on as well.
Food and drink was reasonably priced, and the fact that there’s spacious seating in the downstairs area really helped. I would highly recommend this place for an EPL match, but also for any other sporting event!

i went to an event here about a year ago and i was impressed with the food and there cocktail passport
The furnishing were lovely, really impressed with the bubble water wall
The food was tasty, try the jerk wings and calamari dishes and a huge donught for dessert.
I really want to go back and buy the cocktail world passport for £25 which gets you 5 cocktails from around the world and can be used over a month.
only downer ia a huge column that blocked your view if you sat in the middle, so make sure you dont get stuck next to it.
great for sports events

Excellent screen and sound for the football. Décor is a bit mid-​90s Butlins. Friendly barman, decent beers on tap.

Well I don’t know about sports, but it’s a pretty cool little bar, tucked away in Fitzrovia. I had heard they were doing some movie screenings of home-​grown films for Australia Day but didn’t realise how packed it would be!
Upstairs (ground level) is a small bar and tables for about 30 people while downstairs is a bit more futuristic with massive plasmas across the wall and more booths and seating areas.
Seemed pretty noisy as the music was definitely much louder downstairs.
Was happy with my Tasmanians Boags beer and although we didn’t eat, the choice of Aussie fare for the special menu looked great so might consider this again on a less busy day.

This is one of those times I wish Qype would let me give half stars to places. I’m rubbish at deciding. But, there are things about Jetlag that are awesome, and things that are average.
Let’s do the awesome stuff first: The staff are super friendly. The lounge room was booked for my friend’s birthday (you can hire it entirely if you’re going to spend £500 behind the bar, I think we did that in about an hour). The cocktail waitress was awesome, well done her. The space is nice, the taps are made to look like little jets, which made me happy. There’s dancey space, and sitting space and yeah, if you’re with a party of awesome people (I was indeed), then you’ll have a great time.
But everything else is a bit meh. My margaritas were good, not the best I’ve tried. The Tom Collins tasted like lemonade. But, the classic cocktails are only £4, and their ’round the world cocktail’ deal is a good idea, even if not all of the cocktails are great (let’s not put sake and coke together again, shall we?) The upstairs bar was so empty that I thought I was at the wrong place. It’s at the bank end of Fitzrovia, but still, it was Saturday night. And there was nothing that really shouted out at me. We had fun because the staff were lovely and we were with awesome people.
If you’re not going to an event, I’d go elsewhere, but if you’re here with friendles, you’ll have a fab time. But you’d probably enjoy your evening at a bus stop if you’re with your best mates, hence the three star rating.

I love theme places and I think this place is really no different. I loved the airline seats (more generous with foot room than any others I’m sure!) and the themed food.
Probably cutest thing was the passport to try cocktails from around the world. I just love cute things like this and it really appealed to me and made me regret I no longer work in the Soho/​Fitzrovia area.
I was also here as part of the 30 Rock event which got me hooked to this show but not to the US food here. The hot dogs were lacking that ‘real grilled’ flavour and the doughnuts were cake as mentioned by other reviewers but I have a feeling this is because the US food was aimed at Brits, not Canadians (or Americans).
That said, I loved the onion rings, nachos and wings. I miss wing night where I could get a bucket of beer in ice and a bucket of wings and watch sports. These wings were lovely and with the bucket of beer on the bar, almost took me back to those days.
I really do think you have to try this place. It is a hidden gem as another reviewer said and I had fun!

I went along to the Qype event to check out a screening of 30 Rock. I thought it was a movie, turned out to be a funny US comedy show on Comedy Central. The genius Steve Buscemi was in the episode we watched in the awesome lower ground screening room cinema bar, this tipped it for me. I don’t watch TV out of habit, but this got me hungry for more 30 Rock.
The Jetlag bar lays in the shadow of the iconic BT Tower but actually off the beaten track so it feels like a hidden gem. Fitzrovia, or Noho is as central as you can get so is an ideal meet-​up place, either in the basement or the relaxed main bar.
The cocktails here include a £25 stamp-​card ‘passport’ of an around-​the-​world drinks experience (not all to be consumed on the same night, natch). There is also a specials drinks menu where you cough up £8 or roll a pair of dice and pay what you throw.
The international food menu includes snacking food including chilli dogs, calamari, nachos and jerk chicken. They also specialise in doughnuts, which are humungous (doughnut shaped) cakes, I know this as I was with three North American’s who made my Londoner doughnut knowledge feel rather inadequate. Cakes, they were cakes.
The main thing that you’ll feel at Jetlag is the style, the uniqueness and quirky style are far away from pubs and identikit bars. The rocket styling modern feel even is seen with the taps in the toilet shaped like rockets!
So head down to Jetlag as if you have a rocket in your pocket. Seriously.

I was invited to the 30 Rock event, which took place in Jetlag’s basement cinema lounge. Think comfortable leather sofas, basement bar and cool lighting, which created a chilled atmosphere. My only gripe was that the ventilation was apparently not on full blast and the air became a bit stuffy at times but this can be easily fixed by the management.
We were served international street food, my favourite being the heavenly potato wedges which were perfectly cooked and spicy; it was obvious that these babies were not pre-​seasoned and the chef used his own spice mixture.
The upstairs area was rather busy and certainly a place I would like to come back to. I noticed that they do a £5 lunch deal with a daily changing menu (go to ‘menus’ and look for the ‘school dinners’ link on the website) which is certainly worth a try if you are in the area. They also have cocktail classes and ‘pick up a bartender’ single nights; there is actually no reason not to pay this place a visit!

Yep, I was there last night for the UK Première of the new 30 Rock season. Hilarious! And Jetlag, with its super cushy downstairs screening room/​lounge was an ideal setting. See the witty banter about that event here:

Jetlag is a fun place with a good selection of beer (and apparently wine and cocktails too but I kept with the Steinlager on my visit). They cook up an assortment of junk food from around the world. We were served a generous sample of their «international street food menu» much of which I really liked. The chicken wings and onion rings were especially nice.
In Fitzrovia just down the street from Great Portland Street Station, it’s brilliant for hanging out with friends and a great spot to keep in mind if you’re looking for somewhere to watch a big game (World Cup’s coming soon!!!) or watch a much loved movie (or season première of a TV show) with a group of your favourite peeps.

The 30 Rock event hosted by Qype and Comedy Central took place in Jetlag’s private hire basement venue. With mood lighting, water features and comfy leather sofas, excellent junk food and scrumptious sounding cocktails for those who drink, Jet lag makes for a chilled out and tasty evening. The staff here are friendly and accommodating too, matching the laid-​back vibe of the venue.
The main event of course, was the screening of 30 Rock’s Season 4 première, by Comedy Central. Jetlag’s giant screen and high definition projector, together with the ambient surroundings, made it the perfect venue for this event. If you’re a football fan and want to watch the World Cup in a relaxed but fun environment, Jetlag is the place.
We were fed and watered throughout the event and I left feeling rather stuffed and high on sugar, courtesy of the Homer Simpson sized (read ‘gigantic’) glazed donuts we had as dessert. There was much enthusiasm for the onion rings and calamari and their potato wedges were huge and rather good to eat too. Jetlag offer all kinds of international street food with their newest addition being Bunny Chow from South Africa.
As for 30 Rock, well, I wish somebody had recommended it to me sooner. It’s awesome!

The Comedy Central launch for 30 Rock’s 4^th season made the most of Jetlag’s facilities. Giant-​sized Fey and Baldwin on the monstrous screen had us in stitches, and the kitchen whipped up NY-​style snacks (for me the chilli dogs were an artery-​clogging highlight) to recover our strength.
«International» themed bars run a risk of ending up characterless, but the seriously impressive screening room gives Jetlag a feature attraction that should keep the punters rolling in. As sports-​mad as I am, I hope the screen gets put to good use with cult movie/​tv screenings, rather than just showing sky sports.
A varied (at times obscure) selection of beers from around the world is available, and the ’round the world ticket’ of cocktails (choose 5 of their nationally themed cocktails for £25) would get any night off to a flying start.
My only complaint is a geometrical one, and it’s nothing the management can fix… being a narrow triangular space, there’s no ideal spot to put the projector screen, and it means not all seats downstairs have a decent view of it. So if there’s something you want to watch on the big screen, be sure to get there early!