Chris Turner wrote:
On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Philip Ayres wrote:
Report on the state of the establishment for those of us who don't make it
down please.....
Well lets see.
The drinks are about the same price as the Ascot. Food? Well thats
about a fiver - dunno how good it is as they weren't serving food yet.
Some of the drinks are slightly cheaper. The slection of beer was particular
good, with the choice
between John Smith Smooth, or Courage Directors and Courage Best. Not a
particular good or
wide choice.
The cheapest food was the Baked Potato at about 3.30 GBP, the rest was about 5
GBP plus. Although there
were side orders of fries, onion rings etc for 1.50 GBP.
The decor makes you want to vomit. Steve uttered the immortal words "I
can't hear you over the furniture", which pretty much sums it all up.
Orange & blue.
I don't know whether I would call it Orange, more a peach colour.
They've got bouncers on the door - although whether that is first night
jitters we shall have to wait & see. It was packed & way too noisy to
have a decent convo. They've also done away with a lot of the old seating
around the walls - the rest has been recovered in red & orange material -
so it's much more "standing room only".
The other things that have changes are:
There was lound music playing all the time, a number of TV were in place tuned
to MTV, (this wasn't
the music that was being played).
Installation of a large projection TV to the left of the bar. Where the ladies
used to be. The gents toilets are now the ladies toilets, and the gents have
moved to the other side of the bar. Proably taking up up the area where the
kitchen used to be, which is pretty close to the large TV. By this large TV
there were a number of coffe table arangments.
On the walls were hanging a number of minamlist pictures, ie a couple of dashes
of colours in broad stripes, hung in a much larger frame.
Andrew
