Скачать или смотреть Salsa! Temple 🇬🇧 London 🎡 a review of the Saturday night Latin dance party 💃🏻 🕺🏻

Salsa! Temple is London’s biggest salsa bar. There’s events almost every night and they play a mix of salsa, bachata, reggaeton, merengue, and kizomba.

On weeknights, there are multiple rooms with different dance music genres playing in each room. When I asked staff members they told me that on weekdays the smaller bar area on the left (when you first enter) is used for bachata and the main dance floor is for salsa. There’s a big bar area where they serve drinks that are pretty cheap for London standards (during happy hour drinks are 50% off!). They also serve food and snacks until the kitchen closes at around 23:00.

I went on a Saturday night. It was extremely busy. There must have been between 300-400 people so the dance floor was PACKED! There was a big range of dance levels from people who had never danced before to professionals.

There were also some leaders who… let’s just say weren’t all that interested in actually dancing… I had three very negative experiences with men touching me and being very inappropriate (to the extent that I stopped the dances mid song and walked away - which I NEVER do). This may have been due to the fact I was there on a Saturday night so there were many first time dancers or men looking to hookup with women ~ not actually dance!

Otherwise I had mostly positive experiences and most people I danced with were respectful - and lots of fun! Those three leaders put a dampener on my mood though and I felt I had to be on guard for the rest of the night. There were also multiple posters around the bar and in the female bathrooms warning about harassment which gave me the impression that, unfortunately, this was a regular occurrence at Salsa Temple.

As a result, I much preferred the bachata/salsa night at Coyote Ugly Saloon in Camden as the general dance standard was much higher and I had no negative experiences (everyone was actually there to dance!). The vibe of Salsa Temple and the sheer number of people was exciting - but if you go do be careful and (sadly) if you’re a girl then I don’t recommend going on your own!