Bar Lorca

not a bad barits got a bit of that trendy bar feel going onand almost feels bit out on its own in Tufnell park! it also dose nice tapasarguably bit more pricey but as mentioned maybe that’s to avoid a certain type of clientelegenerally a very pleasant place either for bit of food, one drink after workor somewhere to end up!

It’s crying out for Qype to allow halves here — as this is a square on 3.5 out of 5 for me, but I couldn’t quite bring myself to give it a 4. so it’s a 3anyway, shall I get into the review now?
The venue was once a bank, it was then a short lived cocktail bar, and oddly for a short time became a sort of squat pub/​café — a fairly unique propositionbut also fairly short lived from the legal beagles point of view. Anyway — after that it was taken over by the fine team that run the excellent Dartmouth Arms nearby and turned into a spanish themed bar, serving expensive spanish pints, decent spanish bottled beer and serving some ok tapas, together with a good range of expensive wine.
The reason for it being expensive is it’s basically opposite the tube and they are trying to keep a certain sort of bar patron going to the Boston rather than their venue — something which undermined the cocktail bar mentioned above.
Good little venue inside and most of the time it has a pretty good atmosphere going on, plus in traditional Spanish style — it is of course open late so a good bet for a Friday or Saturday night when the local boozer has closed.
It does however (like a lot of pubs/​bars) have a bit of a theft problem — in that I think someone in there has had something nicked 2 out of the last 5 times I’ve been, which isn’t so great. The other drawback as already mentioned by Barbaridad is that it does get pretty damn loud at times in there and pretty damn busy too.

If you look for a stylish yet cozy tapas bar, look no further. Bar Lorca does tapas, and it does them well (although they do come at a price), and offers good wines to go with it too, not to mention the cocktails. The atmosphere is very nice and plushy, the bar staff is friendly and authentically Spanish (or at least Spanish-​speaking), and sometimes you will even get a free taste of tapas with your wine. Nice! Only drawback: it is LOUD.
I love its triangular shape.