Bijou Blackwood

19/09/2026

Open open open 🍸🍹💎

19/09/2026

✨ WHAT A NIGHT! ✨

A HUGE thank you to everyone involved in our fantastic Quiz Night last night! 🧠🍸

We absolutely love hosting all different types of parties and events at Bijou, and last night was such good fun! A FULL HOUSE, plenty of laughs and, of course, we couldn’t resist getting involved ourselves! 😂

Thank you to everyone who came along and made it such a brilliant night. 🖤

🥂 NOW IT’S SATURDAY… AND WE’RE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!

Doors open from 6PM TONIGHT 🍸✨

🍹 2 cocktails for £13
🥃 Shots & bombs offers

We’re looking forward to seeing lots of happy faces tonight!

SEE YOU AT 6PM! 🖤✨

18/09/2026

✨ 𝐖𝐄𝐄𝐊𝐄𝐍𝐃 𝐔𝐏𝐃𝐀𝐓𝐄 ✨

🖤 𝐓𝐎𝐍𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓 – 𝐅𝐑𝐈𝐃𝐀𝐘
We are CLOSED TO THE PUBLIC for a private event 🥂✨

💎 𝐓𝐎𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐑𝐎𝐖 – 𝐒𝐀𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐃𝐀𝐘
We are OPEN TO THE PUBLIC FROM 6PM! 🍸

Come and join us for a Saturday night at Bijou 🖤

🍹 2 for £13 cocktails
🥃 Shots & bombs offers
✨ Good drinks, good music & good vibes!

See you tomorrow from 6pm! 💎🍸

17/09/2026

Please use cash where ever you go 🙏
Especially with small local business, It takes seconds to take £20 out of the cash point….

Every card transaction COSTS us more!!

Cash transactions have collapsed over the past decade and a half, replaced almost entirely by contactless cards, phones, and increasingly, direct bank transfers. A growing number of cafes, restaurants, and even some pubs have gone cashless entirely, refusing notes and coins outright.

The case for letting cash die out is mostly about convenience and cost. Handling physical money costs businesses real time and money, counting tills, banking cash, managing theft risk. Digital payments settle instantly, cut queue times, and for most people under 50, tapping a card or phone is simply faster than fumbling for change. To this camp, mourning the death of cash is a bit like mourning the fax machine, nostalgic, but not actually useful.

The case for protecting it is about who gets left behind and what gets lost. Roughly 1.1 million adults in the UK still have no bank account at all, and cash remains essential for a meaningful number of elderly and vulnerable people who don't use or trust digital banking. There's also a less discussed concern about visibility. Every digital transaction is recorded somewhere, by your bank, by the payment processor, by the retailer. Cash is the last form of payment that leaves no trace at all, and once it's genuinely gone, every purchase you ever make becomes part of a permanent, searchable record.

The uncomfortable part is that nobody is forcing this shift. Consumers are choosing convenience every single day, one tap at a time, and only noticing what's been lost once a specific shop or situation makes cash suddenly unavailable.

So is going cashless simply progress we've chosen for ourselves, or are we sleepwalking into losing something we'll only properly miss once it's completely gone?

13/09/2026

✨🥂 NOVEMBER AT BIJOU 🥂✨

Party season is coming… and our November diary is already filling up! 💎

🔒 RED = BOOKED PRIVATE PARTY
💚 GREEN = OPEN TO THE PUBLIC & AVAILABLE FOR PRIVATE HIRE

💚 AVAILABLE TO BOOK:
🥂 Thursday 5th November
🥂 Friday 6th November
🥂 Friday 13th November
🥂 Friday 20th November
🥂 Saturday 21st November
🥂 Friday 27th November

🎉 Birthdays
💍 Engagements
🥂 Anniversaries
🎄 Christmas get-togethers
💃 Work nights out
🍾 Or just because!

⚠️ Our private party dates fill up FAST, especially heading into the festive season.

📩 Got a date in mind? Message us to check availability before it gets snapped up!

Thank you for keeping our little Bijou busy. 🖤💎

Bring on party season! 🥂✨

13/09/2026

Updated October parties 🥳

12/09/2026

Just a reminder we are partying tonight 👯Closed to the public…. See comments ⬇️🍸

07/09/2026

💎 𝐖𝐄𝐄𝐊𝐄𝐍𝐃 𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐑 💎

Bijou is 𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜 this Friday and Saturday as we have a fabulous weekend of private celebrations! 🥂

💍 A fantastic hen party on Friday
🎉 A private celebration on Saturday

We can’t wait to celebrate with you all! Please keep checking our page for our next public opening night. 💎🍹

05/09/2026

🍂✨ OCTOBER AT BIJOU ✨🍂
Well… October is looking BUSY! 🥂💎 Following on from yesterday September post… ✨

We’re absolutely delighted to have another month packed with private parties, birthdays, celebrations and special occasions at Bijou. 🖤

🔒 The dates marked in RED are already booked for PRIVATE PARTIES, which means Bijou will be closed to the public on those evenings.

💚 The dates marked in GREEN are currently OPEN TO THE PUBLIC — but they are also our ONLY FOUR remaining October dates available for PRIVATE HIRE!

🥂 Friday 2nd October
🥂 Friday 9th October

So, if you’ve been thinking about having a party at Bijou in October, these are your four remaining chances! 👀🍾

Birthday? Engagement? Anniversary? Work night out? Or simply an excuse to get everyone together? 🥂

Drop us a message and let’s get your date in the diary. 💎

And if those dates remain available, we’ll be throwing open the doors and welcoming you all in for cocktails! 🍸

Thank you SO much for keeping our little venue busy. Every party booked and every night you spend with us genuinely helps support Bijou, and we’re incredibly grateful. 🖤

October… we’re ready for you! 🍂🍸✨

04/09/2026

✨ SEPTEMBER AT BIJOU ✨

After what’s been a pretty cruel summer for hospitality, we honestly couldn’t be more grateful to be heading into a September full of private parties! 🥂🖤

We know it can sometimes be disappointing to see that we’re closed to the public, but our private parties are such an important part of Bijou, and quite simply, they’re what help keep little independent venues like ours going. 💎

So a HUGE thank you to every single person who has chosen Bijou to celebrate their birthdays, engagements, anniversaries and special occasions. It genuinely means the world to us. 🥹🥂

We’ve popped our September dates below so you can see exactly when you can come and join us — and when we’ll be busy helping somebody celebrate behind closed doors! 🍸

🔒 PRIVATE PARTIES
Saturday 5th September
Friday 11th September
Saturday 12th September
Friday 18th September
Saturday 26th September

🥂 OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Saturday 19th September
Friday 25th September

And it doesn’t stop there… our party diary is filling right the way through to Christmas! 🎄🥂

Thank you, as always, for supporting our little Bijou. Whether you book a party with us, pop in for cocktails, share our posts or recommend us to somebody, it all matters. 🖤

Here’s to a busy September! 💎🍸🥂