Bars & Pubs

This isn't the place to come to for a quiet drink. It's not that the music is too loud - though there are small-scale bands here nightly - and it's not that the acoustics are unforgiving. It's simply that the open spaces and the usually too bright lighting prevent any sort of intimacy from developing. Despite the slick decor, the atmosphere is halfway between a nightclub and the business-class lounge at an airport. The drinks are perfectly OK, although for £14, we'd expect at least to be offered egg white for our whisky sour, and for it to be made as requested (we asked for it straight up; it was served on the rocks).

Time Out Bars, Pubs & Clubs Guide 2008/9