London – Eating & Drinking – Pubs & Bars – Bars
Where do I start?
Well we booked on a half price deal so it seemed like we were in for a good deal and a good time.
The venue is decorated in a gaudy dark silver and black fashion – the kind of design you see in B&Q ad’s and in show homes. It was a gloriously sunny day in London and yet there was no natural light allowed to penetrated the harsh decor.
The music was also VERY loud. And very dated. All the tracks played were from the 80’s and a few early 90’s.
I am not sure if this is the ideal place to eat and if you came to drink you’d run the risk of not being able to hear anyone – even the bar staff wore ear plugs.
Now I must say the male waiters were very easy on the eye and the women seemed leggy (if you like that kind of thing) – sadly though looks cannot compensate for the lack of intelligence. It took several attempts for the waitress to take our orders and she had to come back several times to check things even though she’d written them down.
The general standard of the food was nice but it’s very expensive. Even paying half price it felt like we were being ripped off. We ordered a starter platter and I doubt it would have fed one let alone a small group – we finished it so quickly the waiter hadn’t got back to the kitchen before the plate was clean.
Ordering drinks were a mission – the cocktails took ages for the bar staff to prepare (their cocktail menu isn’t very big so you’d think the staff would know what they’re doing) and when it came to wine we were flabbergasted! We tried to order three different bottles only to find out they didn’t have any of them. We ended drinking a mediocre Sauvignon Blanc – purely cause this was all the had!
The payment system was different (to be honest bloody annoying), instead of paying a bill they insisted you paid money up front when reserving the table, paid a tab and continued as such. We put some money on the account when we booked but when we handed our card over to keep a tab we didn’t realise the waitress automatically deducted £50 from our account – this she tried to continue through the evening whenever we went over our total balance! This was very odd and made the evening frustrating as someone had to constantly pay and we had to keep all our receipts so we could work out what the total amount was.
If you want a loud hip bar where you can be ignored by dim staff and be watched while you pee (yes the man in the bathroom handing our towels was so close you couldn’t help but feel you were being watched whilst peeing), then this is the place for you.
If you want somewhere central in town where you can catch up with friends and enjoy a nice meal and a good bottle of wine – avoid avoid avoid!
Keith Tomlinson Photography 
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