Coincidence or what? From yesterday's HDM sorry if someone has already put this on here. http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/Head...4-restaurant/story-26657745-detail/story.html
I drank Stella only in The Alchemist. I enjoyed the cocktail making, but I don't drink that ****. Some lasses had this tea set with all that frozen nitrogen stuff blasting icy clouds everywhere. Fun stuff.
What does 'Gordon Ramsey trained' even mean? If you spent one day under him before being thrown out you could legitimately claim that. Checking Alcock's linkedIn suggests a year with him so I'm not suggesting he did but you get my point I think). I just get the same feeling when I read about such short training with a famed chef as when people get excited going to Jamie's ****ing Italian cos they think he'll be cooking there.
I believe it's called the mad hatters tea party. It is good theatre, but most the bar staff in there come across as pretentious pricks. Kings of their own very small world. Our lass loved it in there but I had a right sulk on.
I liked it when Trinity first opened but, as always, the scum learned about it and it was full of trash in no time and ruined it. It was the same with Call Lane when all the **** bars were shut as Trinity was built, the ****s all moved on to there and ruined it. Hence all the good stuff has now moved to the north end of town.
Aye, it's a familiar story. And I don't think the bar owners do themselves any favours. Take the example of Zest down Newland Ave. A few years ago it was a hidden gem. Lovely decor, great music, decent enough choice of drink and frequented by interesting people that just wanted a good night out. Nice place to go if you wanted a bar with a late licence. Then if course the silly boys got wind of it. But instead of having a door policy of, perhaps, discouraging the daft lads, they ran with it. Gutted the place out to put in a bigger bar, completely killing the atmosphere. So the interesting people move on and the bar has since been renamed twice. I'm hopeful that the current good vibe that we have in the proper old town pubs will be immune from this cycle.
When Hash had Zest it was by far the best bar around that area, great food and a door policy of keeping the idiots out. We spent the best part of 3/4 years in there. Our bands played there, we had parties there, when I was a bit skint I'd tell Hash I was djing over the weekend and he'd just run with it. Regular lock ins, he even started putting on free breakfasts for us on Sunday mornings. Unfortunately he then sold it, the new owners kept the name Zest for a while but the whole ethos and atmosphere of the place changed, gone was Hash's door policy, the idiots crept in slowly but surely and in the end they changed the name to Ella St Social, its now just a chav bar, full of idiots at a weekend, hardly ever open during the week and the one time I did go in for some food it was crap.
Precisely. Without sounding like a hopeless snob (well I do but here goes anyway...) we can all tell to a decent level of accuracy just by looking if a type of person is the one you want in a bar. All you have to do is carefully instruct a bouncer. There's so many fat, loud people lathered in make-up and garish jewellery in Alchemist now since Square on the Lane shut. There should be special bars aimed at this type of specimen.
They're all ****, I don't know how he gets away with it, I went to the one in Shepherds Bush ahead of the QPR game and the food was literally inedible. Though to be fair, they did halve the food bill after we sent most of it back, on the grounds that they agreed 'the fish was probably off'.
Anyone who goes to a CHAIN restaurant cos it's got a celebrity chef's name above the door expecting it to up to the standards of said celebrity chef is a ****ing twerp.
One of the new owners was a regular of Zest when hash had it so we were hoping that they would keep the same ethos, but the lure of the chav pound proved to attractive
Not very often I shouldn't think, though I do think there's a reasonable chance they're on the internet.
