After a disappointing trip to the Portobello Star, we went over to Trailer Happiness at 2 minutes past midnight. We knew it closed at 1 so figured this wouldn’t be too late. We were wrong. They stop letting people in at midnight apparently. But we turned on the charm and they let us in anyway. We barely had time to have one drink though before we were being turfed out half an hour later. I don’t know where people go to party on a Friday night but it certainly isn’t here! It was big but by no means full. We had many empty seats to choose from. The place really reminded me of Lounge Bohemia in Shoreditch with a sort of groovy 70s look and it felt quite funky and like it should have been busier.

My friend got the Trailer Colada which was served in a coconut which made us happy and I got a very normal-looking Golen Age which was infinitely better than the last two cocktails I’d had at the Star. I think my friend’s colada was actually pretty good, I just really don’t like coconut and it had both coconut syrup and coconut tequila in it. Mine had rum, chartreuse, crème de banana and homemade burnt butter syrup and it was a fun drink though not especially memorable.

At 12:30 we finished our drinks and I went to go to the loo before making my way all the way back East. When I tried to, the bouncer tried to direct me out of the bar instead, telling me the toilets were closed. He relented when I said very firmly that I had an hour’s bus journey ahead of me and definitely needed to go before then but what the hell Trailer? Not impressed.