We'd heard the bar did 'very well' due to its permanent "2 for 1" deal on cocktails - but nothing had prepared us for this!
3.15 pm on a sunny Saturday afternoon - it was busy enough to have been 10 o'clock at night! Slug & Lettuce was packed with huge gangs of 'quite mature' women clearly out for a BIG session (in fact it looked like 5 hen parties merged into one!)..... and groups of slightly uneasy, very drunk men taking in the proceedings...God knows what it actually DID look like at 10 o'clock at night!!!!!
The bar was thick with staff and customers alike - our poor bartender was clearly new, reading the cocktail ingredients from a card and using her hands to scoop the crushed ice onto my Raspberry Margarita..... The drinks themselves were fine - a bit on the small side and not very spectacular, but at 2 for £7.45 you can't really complain.
I COULD however complain that the floor and tables were absolutely awash, our bags and sleeves were sodden in minutes. The noise was almost unbearable - having a conversation of any kind was nigh on impossible, and as the bar got more and more crowded on both sides of us, it all felt a bit of a crush and quite intimidating. Getting out of the bar was a battle in itself, people spilling drinks and falling about, we were relieved to get outside into the fresh air and out of the tussle. It all felt like the tail end of a late night in a low rent city centre club, but it wasn't even 4 pm.
Not my kind of place I'm afraid - but VERY profitable I'm sure.
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