Market Place, Oxford Circusback to pub details please note - reviews on this site are purely the opinion of site visitors, so don't take them too seriously.
Truly awful. Loud, pretentious, over-crowded, badly designed, useless barstaff, populated by people who are too ignorant and self-absorbed to know any better. There are a dozen places within a ten minute walk that are far superior so I've no idea why you'd go here.
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Another modern trendy bar... Not too bad as far as they go but typically expensive and rammed at weekends, although the downstairs bar provides a little more breathing space and booth seating. Nothing special.
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This place was packed outside last Wednesday, with after office workers & once I got past all the letches (agree with the meat market comment previously) I met my friends downstairs in one of the booths. Not too packed but filled up really quick..
Service was quick & food was really good, music was a funky mix all night & made the atmosphere feel like a Saturday night... Way too hot in there later so we ended up sitting outside for the rest of the evening.
I was expecting worse reading the past reviews but was pleasantly surprised! Not sure I'd brave it on a weekend night though.
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Went after work yesterday: the queue to get to the bar stretched out of the door, and as usually there were 2 poor bar staff totally rushed off their feet, being hassled from all sides and looked close to collapse. The manager was nowhere in sight, with one girl repeatedly phoning to ask him to come down- no response!
The weather forecast predicted for days to expect a bright warm sunny day yesterday. Why cant they also plan for this and hire in some extra staff- to enable us to not waste half an evening stood at a bar and your poor staff to have it a bit easier? To have 2 staff serving an after work crowd on a hot day, with around 40 people stood at a bar is absolutely ludicrous and a very strange way of conducting business.
I waited for half an hour to get 2 drinks- and when this is inside in room that- quite frankly- stinks this is incredibly unpleasant and irritating! We then waited a further 30 minutes just to get some pita breads and dips. I've leanrt my lesson: will not be returning!
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Bad service, tough to get served and the drinks are rubbish, bit of a try hard place.
anonymous - 7 Jan 2006 13:19 |
Swedish sauna?>>Garden shed.
Market place?>>Meat market.
Good place to go?>>No chance.
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Crap beer, rugby scrum to get served.
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This place felt like a breath of fresh air when it opened but word soon got out and huge queues soon developed for what is, at the end of the day, a pub taht loks like a Swedish sauna. And the last few times I've been it smelt of vomit. Hope it returns to form.
Ciarán - 26 Aug 2004 17:24 |
Great outdoor drinking pub, outside seating, well-staffed, fast service, quiet area very close to Oxford Circus. Great after-work summer pub.
Andrew - 16 Aug 2004 14:27 |
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