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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 08/06/2026 00:10:00

It was conceived to solve a specific problem: in the early 1990s many pubs and bars still felt intimidating places for women to walk into alone. In February 1994, designer Amanda Wilmott, a former director of Slug & Lettuce, drew up a deliberately "female-friendly" bar concept for Bass, defined by glass frontages, open-plan layouts and bright, airy interiors that felt welcoming and safe rather than dark and cliquey. The first All Bar One opened that December in Sutton, in south London, run by B...