Green Note

A lovely intimate venue that attracts a nice crowd of all ages.
This is a good place to go if you enjoy nice music and a perfect place to take friends, who all will not have a bad word to say about it.
A full evening’s concert is £10 or under, their acts are nice small bands that are touring the UK, or on smaller tours and this is one of the places they will play for a night.
A good place to go for those with taste and are in the know.

I absolutely love this place! It’s small, intimate, reasonably priced. Nice décor — exposed brick. I went there to see a country singer, and had a fab time. Perfect for a date. Definitely worth checking out. I want to go back to see the gypsy acts!

… and another excellent night spent at the Green Note. Hammer & Tongue host a monthly poetry slam at this great venue, and I stayed out far too late for a Monday night. High quality entertainment in perfect setting!
Everything about the Green Note is just perfect which is probably why it hasn’t changed for years. I like the intimate atmosphere which provides the perfect backdrop to anything from spoken word to jazz.
Good choice of drinks and delicious bar snacks, ranging from olives and hummous to samosas and mini quiches.
The toilets in the hallway take some getting used to …

I had a wonderful evening here listening to my friends the Jitterbug Vipers from Austin. It’s a small venue but cosy an intimate. The bookings looked eclectic tending towards acoustic folk and jazz. I would go back more often if I were in the neighborhood.

While vacationing in London last week I had the opportunity to see a band perform at Green Note, and was so glad I did!
I had purchased tickets in advance, and arrived at the venue approx 30 minutes after the doors opened (about 1 hour before the 8:30 show began) — I was able to secure an excellent seat near the band, and had time to order both food and drink. While I would not consider this a true dinner destination, they did have several tapas to choose from, which were quite good. The drink selection appeared extensive (they have a full bar). Prices were reasonable (£4 for a mixed cocktail).
Staff was extremely friendly, and the fellow patrons were enthusiastic music fans who appeared to be having as good a time as I and my adult son did.
The music was first class, the sound mixing by the house was quality, and the setting is intimate and eclectic. All in all a fabulous evening — I only wish I lived nearer so I could come here every week! Highly recommend for music lovers who want a break from more standard fare for an evening.

This is a lovely independant venue that hosts live music, they also have open mic and spoken word too.
Music is folk, blues, roots, etc.
There is also a small café area where they serve yummy vegetarian tapas style food.
The walls have lots of pic’s of Folk legends such as Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell etc.
The venue is very small and intimate, best to book in advance as the seating is limited to those eating at the gig and the standing space behind the seats is pretty tiny.
It really is a lovely venue, I recommmend checking it out, especially if you like the type of music and food.

Green Note is a small, intimate venue that gets all sorts of folk, blues, bluegrass, jazz, rock and more. It’s definitely one of my favourite places to catch a show.
I’ve gone explicitly to catch a specific show, and I also frequently drop by just to see what’s on and catch something on a whim. There is a small plexiglass dispenser on their front gate which holds a trifold that lists the set of upcoming shows with descriptions if you’re one to plan ahead (they also list on their website).
Cover is usually under a tenner. There is a small restaurant seating area in front, and the stage is in back behind a curtain. There is seating in the show area, but you’ll usually have to get there early to grab a table. There is food served here, so you can grab a meal in anticipation of the show if it’s one you’re keen on getting a table for.
They monitor the number of people in the stage area and won’t let people in if it gets too crowded. Unfortunately, (probably the only negative I’d give this place) when it gets near the limit it’s still hard to find standing space, and a chore to visit the bar. I wish they’d actually lower the number of people at which they start turning people away, even if it meant I was turned away more often.

This place has all the makings of a great night out, with organic cider and consistently brilliant nights of poetry and music in a cosy atmosphere. The only thing it needs is MORE cider, as they always sell out before the night is through! And some meat on the menu ;)

Great atmosphere and amazing music! I came here on a Saturday night for dinner at the 9pm seating (there is also a seating at 7:30pm). You can sit in the small front room, which is not that nice but still get to hear the music, or you can eat in the back room (or have drinks at the bar in the back room) for a £6 cover charge, which was completely worth it. The back room has one wall of exposed brick, and black and white paintings of musicians on the walls. The space is pretty small, but it’s a great place for a casual night with friends.
The food is all vegetarian, with some vegan options. There’s a tapas menu with medieterranean fare, or you can order a salad and choose 5 toppings, such as homemade hummus, grilled haloumi cheese, avocado, boiled egg, and roasted vegetables (which is what I had, and really enjoyed — really good flavors). There’s also an entrée special and a selection of desserts on the blackboard on the wall.
Really cute place with good food and great music — overall a great place.

I came here to see a gig on Saturday night. Upon my arrival, I noticed how small the venue was. This place is pretty tiny. The front area was reserved for diners. The performance space is past a pair of curtains hanging in the back past the restrooms. I came a little late for the set and wanted to sneak in to the back. But when I pulled the curtains back, I was shocked to find a room full of people staring back at me. Apparently the stage (if you can call it that, its so tiny!) was to my immediate right. I quickly shut the curtains and tried to wait for a break so that I could walk past the stage and fight through the crowd to get a place in the back. Suffice to say, that moment didn’t come but luckily I had a table for the band’s next set.
After each gig, they more or less ask you to leave if you are sitting at a table. You can stand near the bar in the back but tables are reserved for people who are 1) eating or 2) know someone in the band. I fit both categories so I was happy to have my seat. The food was pretty good. We got the halloumi & mango salad and the mango & cheese quesedillas. Both were pretty tasty but as a fiver each I would have wanted more food. I know that they’re tapas but the cheapskate in me wants more for my money.
The second show started an hour after we sat down. The sound was really great. My only gripe is that there is nowhere to dance! Their current set up of stage/​tables/​bar area/​bar works well if you’re at a poetry reading. But this was a very lively gig! Perhaps they should lose some of the tables in the front of the room. Or alternatively not serve meals before/​during performances.

as soon as I found out about this place (a vegetarian restaurant that also doubled as a cosy music venue) I really couldn’t think of a better venue for my girlfriend’s birthday. I am by no stretch of the imagination a vegetarian but I was genuinely excited to go somewhere that had no meat on the menu at all so my veggie gf & I could share everything we ordered and then follow it up with an intimate gig.
I periodically emailed and phoned Green Note from about 3 months prior to the date we hoped to go (my gf’s birthday) to make sure I could get a table booking, mentioning the reason for my constant harrassment each time, and eventually secured the reservation 2 weeks in advance.
well, can you imagine just how p***ed off I was when we turned up to see a small sticker in the window reading:
‘RESTAURANT CLOSED TONIGHT’
a text, a phonecall, an email, even a flippin’ twitter message and they could have somehow informed me, allowing me some form of warning to rearrange my girlfriend’s birthday dinner, but no, the best they could do was to send someone out to us to recommend the seafood restauraunt next door.
now, as an omnivore maybe I just can’t see it, but from my perspective the only reason you go to a vegetarian restaurant is if you are a flippin’ vegetarian, so recommending a venue that serves food formerly with a pulse just doesn’t make sense.
and, as I rushed to ask this sagely person before they hurried back inside, to an empty restaurant, if there was another vegetarian venue they could recommend, they informed me they didn’t know of any.
and that was it
going by the other small groups standing near us in similar disbelief I presume we were not the only ones to have been uninformed which rules out any sympathy that maybe, by sheer bad luck, they just forgot to tell me.
I had seen comments on other review sites mentioning poor service but I dismissed them as the one-​off bad experiences of a few, but maybe I just should have listened.
as a music venue (we did return for the gig) it was what I had hoped for: intimate, cosy, great décor: walls adorned with images of legends and past visiting artists, an affordable bar, and most importantly: a great music act and warm-​up set, but I just could not let their sheer rudeness and bad management go unnoticed

though my purpose for going was purely business (dissertation research) the venue lent itself perfectly for a gig. The posters on the walls were generally folk and rock icons, and the band was playing GYpsy music. while there wasn’t a lot of space for dancing this only made it feel more exclusive, and when 5 people were dancing the only space to dance was right up at the front, so that the entire venue thought it was packed with dancers, and encouraged everyone to dance.
and the drinks were really cheap. While I didn’t eat anything but I eyeballed other peoples food and it looked pretty nice, a kind of mezze style restaurant with tapas sized portions.

Normally if I was invited to a bar that only served vegetarian food, I would assume either that the bar was in Bhutan, or that the humble cow had suddenly been reclassified as a vegetable by evolutionary biologists. However, this non-​Bhutanese dive bar in Camden manages to maintain high levels of awesomeness whilst avoiding the mass slaughter of cute and not-​so-​cute-​but-​still-​delicious furry animals.
This place is tiny; I estimate that capacity would max out at 40 people. They certainly pack them in, but that only helps contribute to the feeling that you are one of a very special bunch of über-​hip hipsters who tend to use über as a prefix to their adjectives instead of the more traditional — and über-​square — adverb very.
The food was tasty (and as a certified carnivore that’s high praise indeed) but I do remember some of the items being hit and miss. They serve an organic beer which was also quite good, although the organic hangover I had the next day was just as bad as the non-​organic kind.
You come here for the music, and the night I went didn’t disappoint. The stage is small but you won’t be more than 5 meters from the artist at any point in the pub. In my case this was Martin Harley — an Englishman singing American blues about the Australian outback sounds bizarre but he’s highly recommended. I particularly enjoyed the fact that the concert ended at 11 PM because he had to get the tube home: talk about raw star power.
This is a really great place: good people, good food, good drink, good vibe, good value, good times. Book in advance!

A small restaurant offering vegetarian tapas, I visited the Green Note to see David Thomas Broughton perform a gig.
We arrived early and although the restaurant was not yet open, the staff were accomodating and let us in anyway, giving us a table in the front room of the restaurant and offering friendly and efficient service.
The range of food was good, and unlike some vegetarian fare had an interesting selection. I am not vegetarian and neither is my gig buddy, but we enjoyed our dinner very much indeed. This was accompanied by a very nice bottle of wine from the wine list, and following our meal we entered the back room to listen to the gig.
All the tables were taken so we ended up sitting cross legged on the floor, but the gig was good nonetheless and the atmosphere was great — a very intimate venue but not in an annoyingly cramped way.
All in all a very enjoyable experience, I’d definitely visit again, for a gig or just for a nice evening meal.

Mmm. I heard such good things about this place before I went there. It’s certainly intimate — small and comfy with lots of cushions etc but perhaps a little intimidating when you’re in such close proximity to everyone else. This is especially the case if you even make the slightest whisper while someone is performing and the entire room turns on you I think I had a bad experience here because the music that was on the night I went was truly dreadful — boring singer, boring songs. But I hear the food is very nice and if the music was good it’d probably be a really good place to chill out.

This little vegetarian café/​bar is situated on parkway in Camden very close to the Dublin Castle. It was a pleasure to go here, and pay £5 to listen to the folk acts which were on on this particular night. The artists were all exceptionally talented, and the place itself was atmospheric, dimly lit, intimate and comfy. I easily sat there with my drink for a few hours or so listening. It’s a small place, but this adds to the intimate vibe. Go here to have some nice veggy food, aswell as some live (and great) entertainment.

This is a really cool acoustic live music venue. It also doubles as a vegetarian restaurant (though I haven’t tried the food in here). I came here to see the UK blues guitarist Joe Crompton, and it was just fantastic. The back room, where the music is, is small and dark, and it makes for a great atmosphere. It’s cosy and intimate, yet gets really lively. People are really friendly in here — we were even invited to a house party by some random people we were chatting to (between the numbers — the room is so small that you can’t really talk much while the musicians are playing, or some people might get annoyed). It closes early but you’ll leave on a real high, ready to rock the town.