Oliver's Jazz Bar — Restaurant in London

Intimate underground jazz bar in Greenwich 🎷

It may be hard to find the door (we missed it at first and went straight to the shed!) but once you're inside it's warm and lively.

We bought our drinks at the bar and got seated for the performance by 9:30pm. A little into the performance a staff member came around collecting the cover charge of £8 and gave us a ticket number in return.

The band was a full set - saxophone, cello, keys and guitar but performance was varied (not enough smooth numbers for my liking).

At half time, when the band took a break, we realised that the tickets we got with our payment were raffle tickets! Lucky number 17 won a bottle of bubbly 🍾 I think this was a great gesture by the owner.

Moments later, the entire room started singing as a staff member brought in a birthday cake with a candle on it for the table next to ours. Something you'd normally expect in a restaurant but a rather aww moment in a jazz bar.

⭐ namobytes ~ little bytes of insight ⭐ We were there on a Saturday night and it was house full. Be sure to reserve your...

Oh dear .....or did i just choose the wrong night? We arrived in readiness to be entertained by a jazz quartet The basement venue had the feel of 'speakeasy vibe' dark corners and dim lighting and with the small auditorium - i thought great really atmospheric vibe. This was 'short lived' the hostess was not the most welcoming and only real engagement was an immediate request for cash to pay the band. Bar drinks too were very expensive! Now to the band ...the music was due to start at 2100...When they did finally start playing at 2130 though there were 4 musicians - it was clear they had not played or perhaps even practiced together before. I don't mind contemporary jazz however the music felt it was all being improvised despite being given song titles and the evening felt it was for the benefit of the lead saxophonist; the music was all very slow and one paced. We left after about an hour... decided to go to the pub opposite. I don't think it was just me as soon after leaving Oliver's I noticed a number of other...

Small step back in time, a better time, a more human time. I walked in and smelled the carpet 1st but I wasn't put off a few steps down and the heat hit me a comfortable homely type or heat, then the smell of a wood fire burning over came me and at that moment..... the sax player begun his piece and I suddenly had a 1st for some good rum ... luckily the bar was the 1st thing I see when I look to my left so I go and get a drink ...I'm greeted by a bass player almost melting from working by the fire but smiling and seemingly comfortable regardless of body temp, he serves and then I head back and through some curtains and seat myself almost directly opposite door with my back to an alcove that seemed to act as a resonance basin, I was bathed in the sounds of New Orleans on a rainy Sunday afternoon. I met some amazing people including Oliver himself and was delighted the whole time, the high from that night gave m an amazing start to my week and I will indeed be...