Bar-ish

I really like the name of this place. Is it a bar? Well, it’s a bar-​ish.
Sadly, that’s the only thing I really liked about this place.
I came here for a quick coffee and meeting with someone in the area. The space is clean but kind of cheesy looking, they wanted to capture a Turkish café outside… but inside. Lots of wood, lots of brick and there’s a giant mural of the Bosphorus and the bridge connecting Asia to Europe.
They also apparently have a club area downstairs but I did not see it.
We didn’t do food here but it didn’t look great. We did coffee here and it wasn’t great. Weak and sad, but the tables were comfortable and we weren’t bugged. We weren’t checked on at all, mind you, and had to seriously flag any one down for service, but we weren’t bugged.
I think this is one of those Stoke Newington spots that gets busier and crazier and maybe more worthwhile the longer the night goes on, which is fine. But for me, when I needed a place to sit and chat, it did what it needed to do.