Game, set & roast - board games & roast dinner @ Bar Titania

Dining Ds Roast Dinner @ Bar Titania with Board Games from Planet London (Sunday 16 Feb)

A semi-regular venture of Brighton’s Dining D’s membership group to London selected new women’s venue Bar Titania for their most recent event. With Sunday roasts on offer, who wouldn’t?

Twenty women most of whom hadn't met previously were welcomed with cocktails by lovely host Jane, who seemlessly ensured conversation and mingling began straight away.

After placing our order for the roast meat (or veggie) option of our choice - from the lamb, beef, chicken or veggie roast burger on offer - we were guided upstairs where laid out tables and a massive stack of boardgames awaited.

Spread over two tables, the conversation flowed along with the cocktails and everyone had the opportunity to make new friends.

Shortly after the massive plates stuffed full of meat(/veggie option) yorkshires, roast potatoes and fresh veg arrived. Silencing the guests for a short duration while we all got stuck in.

Most of us were stuffed but a couple partook in the delightful crepes for dessert while everyone else tackled the board games. Gayopoly was a popular choice, along with the Pool table, cards and table top jenga made the biggest splash of all.

By Katie

Bigger is Better: G3:PM Review

Venue: Scala
Date: Friday 30 November
Cost: £12 advance/£15 on door/£25 VIP

Despite the cold wait in the queue and the slow entry process (we have been promised a slicker process next time to get us all in as quickly as possible) it was great to be back at old faithful Scala.

This 4 in one event brought together some of the best of a broad range of events aimed at lesbians & bi women and the genderqueer of London. It feels like the return of the superclub, where different rooms host different banging tunes, live music, wild entertainment and plenty of women.

Lovely photograph taken by Leng Montgomery

The venue lent itself pretty well to the split of events. Stav B's Intergalactic Alchemy held court in the first floor and bar area, with cool retro tunes, live performances, fire eaters and for something different a face painter and Barber shop decorating the guests throughout the night. It was interactivity and abstract at its best in the way things worked together.

The main dancefloor and stage hosted Ruby Tuesdays with a full line up of DJs throughout the night, and headline act Peaches who was amazing singing, MCing and mixing the decks. She was clearly a popular draw and the guests fled to the dance floor when she came on stage, for a well executed, flamboyant, edgy, class act show.

The top floor, from Club Boy vs Club DIP, hosted some live music throughout the night and provided another bar to purchase drinks.

The G3 hosted VIP lounge looked very popular but we weren't VIP enough to make it inside.

Bar prices were typical central London prices, although Red Stripe Beer was on offer. We did have to wait 20 minutes to be served at one point... but that just proves there were a lot of women there. 

It was an interesting, fun and successful night; really great to see a collaboration of 3 very different events - can't wait for the next one.

We're confident this won't be a one-off since it was so successful, and it was really good to see such a wide range of women in one space, which was down to the excellent choice of such diverse event organisers. It would have been so easy to have chosen 3 events that had overlapping customer bases, but this was not the case, and the event was all the better for it!