| Topic: | Re:Re:Syon Park hotel - when does it open? | |
| Posted by: | Alan Clark | |
| Date/Time: | 23/03/11 09:12:00 |
| Been there, done that. Oh so cool and groovy bar. Oh so expensive drinks. All very waiter intense restaurant. All very pricey menu, but the food itself is pretty good. More designed for expense accounts than family meals. Lots and lots of bored, but very friendly staff. Not exactly heaving but a surprising number of folk in the restaurant for a Tuesday evening - including a gaggle of would-be footballers wives, squealing over cocktails and tottering about on heels. What's the collective term? A Geiger (my missus provided this shoe/shrill based term)? Wine list tops out at £5k for a Petrus - I decided against that particular vintage. The cocktail barman does have a decent swizzle stick technique but his ice pick must have been blunt. Upstair rooftop bar / restaurant only opening in May - so you will have to wait a few weeks to be closer to the planes landing while you sip your mortgage-scale drink. Brentford's never seen the like. It might, however, fail to tempt the clientele of the George&Dragon away from their pints of stella. |