CityBird: Your Thursday Night On The Cheap

Week before payday but in dezzo need of a beer? I’ve got your night all wrapped up for under £20. (Yes, boys, even you too.)

5.30pm – One drink down. If you hotfooted it to the Exchange Square, Fleet Place or Monument branches of Corney & Barrow, you’re in for another cheap treat. Pay just £10 corkage and get the bar’s finest wines at cost price. 

6.30pm – With any luck, you won’t have spent much but the world will have started to look a bit more squiffy. But you need food to soak up the booze: so where next? Head to the nearest All Bar One, where the chain has rolled out its ‘dine out for £5’ menu. Snarf a burger and chips for a mere fiver and you’re ready to roll. Next!

7.30pm – Find a Balls Brothers (shouldn’t be too difficult, they are EVERYWHERE in the Square Mile) for yet another cut-price drink. The chain is banishing the January blues with 50 per cent off all booze until the end of the month.

9pm – It’s ABACUS TIME. My favourite bar of all time has extended its happy hour throughout January until 10pm, and all drinks are half-price. You can thank me in the morning, readers.