Eagle London Formerly: South Central

Popular, nearly-all-male Vauxhall spot with an unusually pleasing and spacious outdoor patio/smoking area. The bar tends to draw conventionally manly guys and in October 2012 reinstated laid-back cruisiness to its weeknight policy. At the weekend it caters to various subsets and interests, mostly music-driven — including monthly 80s-retro Athena, first Saturday — and the ever popular Sunday evening boy/girl party Horse Meat Disco [see entry], but themed nights come and go as the bar struggles to maintain its grip on the fickle scene. Indie cabaret Duckie (formerly a fixture at pub neighbour Royal Vauxhall Tavern) arrived at the Eagle on 27 August 2022 for a weekly Saturday Electric Tea Dance, then switched to a monthly event (last Saturday). Previously South Central and before that Duke's, the bar opened as the Eagle in 2004, reinvented by current owner Mark Oakley. In February 2013 the bar expanded its horizons with its first 'sex entertainment license' and in May 2016 closed for 17 days for "essential upgrades", including new and improved bar station and lighting. In autumn 2016 Oakley tweaked the ethos of the bar with the removal of the darkroom. Located a four-minute walk from Vauxhall tube station.