American Bar (The Stafford)

Popped in here yesterday afternoon to escape the rain and ended up staying for a bite to eat.

The courtyard setting is great and I loved the look of the bar, very old school but my type of hotel bar.The food was everything you would expect from a bar in a 5 star hotel at 5 star prices. My club sandwich was good as was my friends fish and chips, but at £14 and £19 each they needed to be.

Drink prices were verging on the ridiculous, £9.50 for a Baileys and £14 for a Pimm's gave me a shock, but we also had a bottle of Pol Roger which seemed good value at £55.

Service was fine, a bit to pushy at the start, coming to ask if we wanted another drink every 5 minutes and then the opposite when we wanted our champagne topped up and had to go and hunt for our bottle.

Overall and cool place for a few drinks for a special occasion.
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Chris - View all reviews by this user
7 Overall rating
Food 8 | Service 6 | Atmosphere 8 | Value for money 6
Sunday, August 08, 2010