Bar Kick

London, United Kingdom

3.9

Closed now

22 reviews

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Telephone:
+44 20 7739 8700
Website:
www.cafekick.co.uk
Address:
127 Shoreditch High Street, London, United Kingdom, E1 6JE
Hoxton
Nearby public transportation stops & stations:
310 ftShoreditch Church
330 ftShoreditch Church Town Hall
330 ftShoreditch Town Hall
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Takes Reservations
No
Delivery
No
Take-out
No
Accepts Credit Cards
Yes
Good For
Late Night
Parking
Street
Bike Parking
No
Wheelchair Accessible
Yes
Good for Kids
No
Good for Groups
Yes
Attire
Casual
Ambience
Casual, Trendy
Noise Level
Loud
Music
Background
Good For Dancing
No
Alcohol
Full Bar
Happy Hour
Yes
Best Nights
Thu, Fri, Sat
Coat Check
No
Smoking
Outdoor Area/ Patio Only
Outdoor Seating
Yes
Has TV
Yes
Waiter Service
No
Caters
Yes
Has Pool Table
No

Today

Today 12:00 pm – 12:30 am
Closed now
Local time (London) 04:27 Thursday, 26 June 2025

Business hours

Monday 12:00 pm – 11:00 pm
Tuesday 12:00 pm – 11:00 pm
Wednesday 12:00 pm – 11:00 pm
Thursday 12:00 pm – 12:30 am
Friday 12:00 pm – 12:30 am
Saturday 12:00 pm – 12:30 am
Sunday 12:00 pm – 10:30 pm

Description

Specialties

It’s hard to define KICK as it’s so many things to different people, and we don’t like to be pigeon-​holed into a box! Can a ‘sports bar’ serve good quality, fresh, lovingly cooked food? Yes. Can a tranquil coffee bar turn into a buzzing cocktail bar at night? Yes. Can a place that shows a HUGE amount of international live football be friendly and inviting to all kinds of customers? The answer is yes. It’s true that many people get confused at what we’re trying to be… but why would we want to be just one thing? Why just a ‘sports bar’? Why just serve delicious burgers and hot dogs? Why not have tasty daily changing lunch specials with Mediterranean dishes and recipes from around the world? And it’s not just Bonzini table-​football and live football that we do with gusto… every Monday night our basement turns into ‘The KICK Stage’ where we present comedy, poetry & spoken word, short films and speed-​dating. Why JUST be a sports bar?!

History

Established in 2001.

The owners of KICK took all the best bits of all the best bars in all the hot countries that they travelled to and created their dream bar… what we have today. Initially it grew out of one of Shoreditch High Street’s many Shoe Shops and opened its doors in October 2001 to serve coffees, drinks and a few home-​cooked dishes. There were French Bonzini football tables, formica furniture, bare walls and bright lights.

From this day the lights have been dimmed, customers have been helping us to fill the walls with world football memorabilia and we have been well and truly lived-​in. The ceilings have been covered with flags and our babyfoot players have improved so much, we can’t keep up with them!

Mostly famous for our table-​football, our basement events, lovingly cooked food and cocktails we are also the place to be to watch live football.

Our HAPPY HOUR is the best in town with bottles of house beer for £2 and all our monthly cocktails reduced to £4.85 everyday 4−7pm. Enjoy…

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22 reviews of Bar Kick

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Place rating: 3
London, United Kingdom
Bar Kick in Shoreditch is fab! Table football fun to be had, but also large TV screens always showing the latest sports. Grab a table and play in twos (or fours). There is a good happy hour available as well as a tried and tested fantastic selection board with meats, cheeses, olives and breads to share.
Place rating: 5
San Francisco, CA
Stopped here for lunch today, the food was amazingly tasty and wholesome and very reasonably priced. Staff helpfully answered all our queries about vegan dishes and the quality of food way surpassed expectations. The staff were super friendly and are clearly happy in their work; that and the great décor and of course the table football (not that we played) make for a great relaxed atmosphere, (I gather it can get pretty busy at nighttime here but lunch was very laid back affair).Highly recommended.
Place rating: 3
Port Royal/Gobelins, Paris
Quoi du mieux qu’un bar pour passer une bonne soirée entre amis? Un bar avec des baby-​foot, bien sûr !
Bar Kick est parfait pour servir d’étape dans votre périple nocturne londonien. Pas toute la soirée, par contre… Déjà, ça ferme tôt. Ensuite, le choix de bières est pas terrible (pensez-​donc, leur exclu, c’est la 1664. Triste Angleterre.). Et last, mais carrément pas least: c’est rempli de français. Et ça permet de se rendre compte assez vite qu’on est pas le seul à avoir claqué des pièces de 2 dans le baby de son lycée.
Par contre dans les plus: La localisation: Shoreditch, c’est pratique, facile à trouver, et y’a plein d’autres trucs sympas dans le coin. Gros big up: les baby-​foot sont d’authentiques Bonzini. Ca n’a l’air de rien comme ça, mais sorti de France, c’est compliqué de trouver des baby-​foot corrects (venez pas me parler de jouer sur un Tornado). Et puis finalement, le lieu est suffisamment spacieux et équipé en tables pour pas se marcher dessus ou attendre ¼ d’heure avant de pouvoir tâter de la poignée ronde.
Place rating: 4
London, United Kingdom
Oh, this is so Shoreditch. It’s so not me, but it’s really good at what it is, so I can’t dock it.
There’s lots of space downstairs, and they let you reserve areas. It’s good for large mingling gatherings where you want to talk to lots of people who you already know, so that you can pretty much guess what they’re saying as they yell into your ear. I could not possibly imagine trying to talk to someone new with the noise level it gets up to. After a couple of hours, it was pretty useless trying to keep shouting because I just couldn’t get my vocal chords to generate sufficient volume.
You know, that kind of place. It’s a thing. If that’s what’s gets you excited, by all means, this is for you.
Place rating: 4
London, United Kingdom
Stopped here for a few drinks and some table football. Obviously a great spot for that, probably 20 tables over 2 floors, super fun bar! Very solid place, not a bad beer selection at all.
Can’t comment on the food, but would definitely be back for a quick game, and a great spot to host a party or a get together, good activity in a cool spot.
Place rating: 3
London, United Kingdom
This is a solid bar.
Pros:
1. Large interior, space for groups
2. Table football
3. Massive selection, including selection of cocktails.
4. Seating outside.
Vibe: it has that youthful trendy vibe, its like your shoreditch high concept bar, but it isn’t worried about seeming too cool.
Cons:
1. It gets busy in the evenings, (i don’t like busy)
2. The view on the outside seating… is shoreditch.
Place rating: 4
London, United Kingdom
Good atmosphere– check. Good music– check. Ample opportunity to play kick football– check. This bar has all the makings of an excellent night out. Even without the football, the bar is a good space to let your hair down and while away the hours with their £2 bottled beers (happy hour!!) and half price cocktails. The bar itself was a quirky, yet small space filled with americana. The tables and chairs felt like they had been lifted from a nearby primary school canteen but it all added to the charm of the place.
Shoreditch has a whole host of great bars and clubs and there is nothing to make this one stand out but it was a good night all the same!
If you are nearby and thirsty then i would definitely recommend it.
Place rating: 5
London, United Kingdom
A place where you go to watch the footie with a great atmosphere. Mainly filled with Spanish and Portuguese and a mix of British suits or footie fanatics. Has a downstairs too which is more spacious. I love the fussball tables and you can often find me in there trying to beat my mates. Fun vibes and a happy hour to boot with Sagres. Perfect.
Place rating: 4
London, United Kingdom
Cracking little bar with a fun, relaxed atmosphere. The food is great too!
Place rating: 3
London, United Kingdom
Fun place to go, but getting served is almost impossible on Friday and Saturday nights, and also when the football is showing.
Place rating: 4
London, United Kingdom
Big fan.
Decent bar, though drinks wise lets be honest, they’re the same as every other bar. The clincher here is the table football.
Managed to get a table on a Friday at 11pm easily enough. £1 a game. Sorted if you’re just out with mates for a laugh.
Really recommend this place if you’re in this neck of the woods and want somewhere to go (without dancing)
Place rating: 4
Sevilla
De vacaciones por Londres, una amiga nos trajo aquí para charlar y tomar una cerveza. La verdad es que el sitio es original y no tiene casi nada que ver con los clásicos pubs británicos que uno espera encontrar por la zona. Se llama así porque es un bar de deportes con pantallas gigantes donde emiten fútbol, cricket o incluso dardos a todas horas. Si hay deporte en la tele, aquí se podrá ver.
Pero lo más interesante de todo está en que es un bar repleto de futbolines donde la gente se pasa las horas dándole al antebrazo para ganar sus partidos. Pude observar que las mesas de futbolines se pueden reservar por horas, aunque se puede venir de improvisado y tentar a la suerte para conseguir una. Con tal invento español en su interior, ponen la guinda con cervezas españolas en el repertorio. Las tienen malas como Mahou pero también las hay buenas como Estrella Galicia, amén de otras de importación más típicas que puedes encontrar por ahí.
Es un local grande, repleto de gente y bien de precio. Sin duda, una alternativa interesante si te gustan las multitudes y, especialmente, el fútbol.
Place rating: 4
London, United Kingdom
Any bar that encourages you to spend your evening playing table football is going to get a recommendation from me. A few tables upstairs however downstairs is a room packed full of tables. It seems the game is pretty popular in East London as the place always seems to be busy, even more so on a Friday or Saturday night.
They have a few TVs dotted around the place showing football most of the time so with the World Cup coming up it might be even harder than normal to get a place at one of the tables so arrive early
Place rating: 5
London, United Kingdom
Excellent sports bar. Very hip and trendy. Packed with folks enjoying beer, sports, and foosball. If there’s a big game on the place becomes absolutely jam packed. We came at 4pm on a pub crawl — they only reserve a few areas and you must do it well in advance.
Place rating: 4
London, United Kingdom
Ever wondered why the name has a kick to it? This is a foosball (table football) place. So many tables to play foosball here. Stairs to the basement lead to a nice place with 6 foosball tables, 4 of them next to each other, two separate, a set of couches and some tables and a bar.
This is a great place to book for team building events. The whole of the basement can be booked. They make good sandwiches too. At my current firm I regularly visit this place. Twice a year, we have a foosball tournament here.
I love the ambiance. Everyone is screaming out names of the foosball players and encouraging and having drinks, taking breaks to bite a sandwich, it so full of life. The bartenders are also very helpful. They fix the foosball tables if something is not working.
I totally recommend trying this out.
Place rating: 5
Penang, Malaysia
To start with I must admit I’m a slightly competitive person. So when I had the chance to visit and ‘kick’ some butt at foosball, I couldn’t resist!
We came here quite late on a Thursday night and still managed to score a foosball table and seats which was lucky. The wine was flowing and aggressive side showing, I could not fault one aspect of the atmosphere this great bar creates. We ended up staying until the bar staff had to physically remove us (and we still didn’t want to leave). Great night and great bar, will definitely be returning (if anyone else is up for the challenge?!)
Place rating: 4
London, United Kingdom
Ok so first of all: I’m not a football fan, and I don’t usually like pubs with very big screen etc… but still, this is a great place where to hang out! nice happy hour (16 – 19) with beer at 2 £ and selection of cocktails (the easiest ones, daiquiri, margarita and that sort of stuff) at lower price (I think it’s 4 but… well if you wanna be sure about it just go and see by yourself!!), and more overall… football tables!
Most of people there are nice and friendly, it’s a great place where going with a friend and just have a beer and a match against two complete strangers!
If you are like me, and you basically spent your youth among football tables and billiards, this is the place for you, no discussion!
Place rating: 4
London, United Kingdom
Cheap happy hour + foosball tables = how can you not have fun?!
Bar itself is nothing special — international feel, flags everywhere and they screen big games if that appeals, though the England v Ukraine world cup qualifier was just background noise to me!
Table footy however is my bar game of choice, and I got totally nostalgic for my uni bar. If you’re a fellow foosball fan/​geek (can’t quite believe I’m saying this) then you’ll find the tables a bit slow and the bars stick quite a bit. Fortunately this gave me more control and handicapped the 3 guys who were always better than me at uni, so yes this review is positively biased by the fact I won a lot wooh!
The £2 beers and £5 cocktails also helped — worth getting there before 7pm. Already collecting pound coins for our next visit (now I just need the forearms to recover)…
Place rating: 4
London, United Kingdom
A must for every fuss ball fan. Yiu can find people with a very good level if you’re looking for competitive opponents.
Otherwise the food is not really good but drinks are quite cheap.
Place rating: 2
London, United Kingdom
Supah dupah meh.
Foosball is awesome.
The shite-​est selection of beers I’ve ever seen.
High prices.
An even shite-​er selection of tequilas.
I can’t tell what this bar’s trying to be. Sports? Have better/​more beer. Salsa? Needs better tequila. Cocktails? Maybe mop the floor once in a while.
Also, it’s the terrible music from ca 2004. You know, the music that made you want to stop doing drugs in case you wanted to dance to it.
Just say no.
Place rating: 3
London, United Kingdom
Suggested by the formidable Linzi M as a pre-​Yelp event meeting spot Bar Kick was a very good call indeed.
Although no table football was actually played during our stay there, it could have been worse having the tables in the bar — it certainly added to the vibe.
The Mojitos were great and very good value. Plenty of other drinkises were on offer, but I stuck with what was doing well for me!
Overall, a good place, but not amazing for me.
Place rating: 4
San Francisco, CA
What do I think Bar *hick* Kick?
Um, I think it has lots of boozes, and shotses, and beers, and boozes, and foosballs.
Oh, and I think they’ll play Michael Jackson if the dance party gets going in the middle of the bar. Which it frequently does when I’m there. *hick*