Baby Bathhouse cabaret club to open in Stoke Newington
Daniel Wright at the Baby Bathhouse, Stoke Newington. Photograph: Tim Sullivan
A new branch of the popular Bathhouse cabaret club will open its doors in Stoke Newington later this spring.
Baby Bathhouse will be an outpost of the Bishopsgate venue near Liverpool Street station, which occupies a Grade-II listed former Turkish bath. The new bar will occupy 125 Church Street, a vacant property opposite the Lion pub, with a two-stage opening over February and March.
Like the original bar, it will offer cabaret and burlesque performances, lunch and dinner dining and a cocktail menu, plus an outdoor area at the back.
Tava O’Halloran and Daniel Wright say they are happy to be located amidst the vintage shops and record stores of Church Street. O’Halloran said: “The Victorian building has experienced a colourful year – the back half of the building burned to the ground but, like a phoenix rising for the ashes, the Baby Bathhouse will emerge.”
The Bathhouse has previously been a favourite with celebrities such as Alexa Chung, Nicholas Hoult and Jodie Harsh. It has previously billed Henry Holland, and Sophie Ellis Bextor and her husband, Richard Jones, as DJs for club ‘Love to Love’.
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Hello As a resident of Stoke Newington and of Church Street …
I think it sounds lovely to have another restaurant on Church Street we are just spoiled for food choices, but do we need another late night drinking bar. The Gold Bar nearly burning down was one of the best things to happen to Church Street, so why replace it with another one?
It has been lovely being able to walk along the pavement on that side of the road avoiding all the drunk smokers outside the Lion pub opposite but now that is over as we will have people drinking and smoking in the street on both sides. I look forward to all the comments calling me Nimby and I also look forward to not getting to bed until 2am because of people being kicked out and shouting, I have had it before with the Gold Bar, I’m having it Now with the lion and now the Baby Bathhouse” will just top it all off.
P.S. Every other business that has tried there has failed, I would give up now and open a Tea Rooms.
@Simon: whinge, whinge, whinge! If you don’t like noise, why did you choose to live on a main thoroughfare? And what makes you imagine that you have the right to dictate the choices that should be available to other people? Several of my friends in Stoke Newington have told me that they’re really pleased to have a new venue for cabaret and burlesque practically on their doorstep.
Perhaps you should have put your money where your mouth is and opened a tearoom on the site yourself. Or perhaps you’d be better off moving to some quiet, bland part of the outer suburbs, where nothing exciting ever happens (there are plenty to choose from). Yes, you ARE a typical NIMBY!
“Several of my friends in Stoke Newington have told me that they’re really pleased to have a new venue for cabaret and burlesque practically on their doorstep”
You don’t even live there, tell me what bland part of the outer suburbs you live in and I will put my money where your mouth is. Look my reply is as constructive as yours.
Live on a main thoroughfare? It’s lovely during the day just like when I moved in many years ago, now it’s being taken over by bars and a pavement covered in drunks, vomit & aggressive people. So your saying I need to move my family and home so you and your mates can drink yourself silly?
Must go now, I need to start packing……
We are currently putting the finishing touches on 125 Church St. The building, formerly known as The Gold Bar, has experienced a traumatic year with the back half of the building burning to the ground. However, like a phoenix rising from the ashes, following an extensive refurbishment, the glorious Baby Bathhouse will launch soon in its place.
We have been planning The Baby Bathhouse for some time now and have been working away to create an atmospheric bar and restaurant for Church St that will be an asset to our community, and we would like to take this opportunity to share our plans with you.
The original Bathhouse venue opened in Bishopsgate almost two years ago. With creativity and dedication, we took a neglected Victorian Bathhouse and turned it into a popular venue for local businesses, residents and visitors from across London. We have lovingly run the original venue working closely with local authorities (City of London Police and Licensing) and our favourite neighbours St Botolphs Church. When we thought about opening another outpost our thriving, burgeoning community of Stoke Newington was the obvious choice.
We are truly excited about introducing The Bathhouse concept to Stoke Newington and we hope that you love the new venue as much as we do.
The new venue will offer you a café / bistro, cocktail bar, restaurant and large, South-facing (and very sunny!) garden / terrace, complete with cobbled Victorian inspired walkway and street lamps, oversized gilded birdcages, outdoor seating and family friendly barbecue area.
Please email us with any questions on baby@thebathhousevenue.com and come and take a peek. We want to make sure that everyone in the community is happy with what we are doing and can be confident that we will add to rather than detract from our area. Both the owners and the staff of The Bathhouse all live in the local area and we believe in having a great relationship with stakeholders in the community and local authorities.
The Baby Bathhouse Team
Why do you make the rash assumption that my friends and I wish to “drink [ourselves] silly”, just because we view the opening of this venue as a GOOD thing? Or – let me guess – the idea that adults might be capable of drinking sensibly and having a good time without the government or the council telling them when it’s time for bed doesn’t fit with your cliched, knee-jerk rhetoric.
And no, I don’t live in Stoke Newington (I don’t believe it’s been made compulsory yet), but that doesn’t mean I wouldn’t welcome some more non-mainstream entertainment in MY neck of the woods (the lovely urban village of East Finchley, since you asked).
Actually, forget London altogether: it sounds as though Milton Keynes might be more your style…
gsob ; Stoke newington rejected a strip club opening in the area..The councillors always quote this in their campaign to shut the shoreditch ones up.That comment;must go now:sounds familiar
@Steve: are you implying that Simon may be Secret Squirrel, a Hackney Resident? 😀
gsob I am getting as paranoid as the council .
LOL!
GSOB & Steve, I reckon your paranoia is justified. Simon seems to be starting a 1 man hate campaign:
http://www.viewlondon.co.uk/pubsandbars/the-baby-bathhouse-info-68392.html
Good luck baby bathhouse!
My teeth grate at the use of the word “stakeholder” without any discernible irony.
I just love the doublethink of the Citizen’s opening pages, containing a news story detailing the banning of clubs in which women get naked for money, and, er, the opening of a club in which women will get naked for money. Shome mishtake shurley!
@Zee: where Simon the Secret Squirrel can venture, so can the rest of us! 😉
@astarix: No doublethink on the part of Hackney Citizen – they just report the facts. The doublethink (and doublespeak) is all Hackney Council’s.
zee and gsob: when people start using words like thoroughfare you know the district’s changing
zee;have just read the review by simon,will he be leaving his speech to the nation
@Steve: Stoke Newington’s been changing ever since Alexei Sayle started going on about stripped pine all those years ago!
…And Secret Squirrel has left his traces on the Hackney Gazette site too.
gsob;I suppose if you go on telling the same story over and over people wil start taking notice.Hopefully this works on the council.
…Unless someone notices and Objects! 😀
I’m having a lovely time in Milton Keynes, lots of roundabouts. Thanks for the advice.
Talking of roundabouts,the one athe end of hoxtons been removed.Never an accident there,now theres been two in the last fortnight.Anyone know why it was moved?
There is nothing “non-mainstream” about cabaret. It’s as “edgy” as tattoos and mohawks are now.
@Adam: clearly, you never venture beyond Tube Zone 2. And mohicans (never ‘mohawks’ in Britain) were edgy for all of about five minutes, in 1978.
Well, you’re right about the travel (well, almost… I do travel beyond zone 2, but tend to stay in 1 & 2 as I word in the City and live in Stoke Newington).
As far as the other bit, do you really think tattoos are still edgy? Everyone has one (well…). And cabaret? Really? I think not…
@Adam: I don’t find tattoos edgy at all, ‘though one or two of the many I’ve seen have been genuinely stunning.
As for ‘new’ cabaret, it’s been about the only form of entertainment to emerge in a grass roots fashion over the last decade or so – just look at the dismal state of the music industry, the conservative trends in film and theatre, and the effect of ‘big money’ of stand-up comedy. I’m not saying that there isn’t a certain amount of dross out there (the same was true of stand-up in the eighties and nineties), but when I’m watching good cabaret or burlesque, I know I’m experiencing honest, unmediated entertainment, of a type that’s still rare to see in the suburbs and beyond.
See, nothing to get your skinny jeans in a twist over! 😉
I wish I could fit into skinny jeans (but at my age, whoah).
I can’t stand cabaret and burlesque (obviously). To misquote Karl Marx, “history repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce.”
“…then Hollywood attempts to make a cash-in movie about it.” 😀