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Tue Dec 15 2009
Empty, this is a prime spot: long and light, with flimsy white curtains and a courtyard that feels a long way further than a block from Oxford Street. There’s still something unsettling about it, however: those single eyes on the backs of the chairs, and the glint of steel along the long bar don’t make for a cosy drinking experience. And the acoustics mean that every fashionista squawk reverberates. The house vodka is Wyborowa, but it’s hard to trust a drinks menu that lists most of its cocktails, including daquiris, under ‘martinis’. An oriental daquiri costs £13 plus 10% service and tasted of neither lemongrass nor ginger, although the measure was pleasingly hefty. And olives were dull, overly salty and an outrageous £6 before service and the extra gratuity the bill encourages you to add. Granted, there were a lot of them. But you don’t come to an Ian Schrager hotel for quantity over quality.
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