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Review of Favela Chic
06 Aug 07, 20:39
Good/bad. 
Review number 1: 6pm till 9pm - 4 stars
Met some friends here after work on a Friday. It started off pretty empty and stayed that way for a couple of hours. The staff were friendly, the music was pretty good and the right level for drunken slightly shouty conversation, and we got through a few bottles of wine in no time. We decided to eat and I got an amazingly rich and unctuous pork and lentil stew with crispy potatoes, which was honestly one of the best things I've eaten all year. It started to fill up and get loud around 9, perfect we thought as we've eaten, we're drunk and we're up for a late one.
Review number 2: 9pm till 10.30pm - 2 stars
And then they make us leave the table while we're still eating and hassling us cos their higher value buy-a-bottle-of-spirits-to get-a-table policy has just kicked in and the doorman starts flouncing around bossing people and it all got a bit lame and annoying.
Review number 3: 10.30 onwards - 5 stars (not included in average score)
Thanks to it turning rubbish we got to see the excellent Johnny Foreigner at Bar Music Hall round the corner, so thanks Favela Chic staff for an excellent night.
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Review of Anam
06 Aug 07, 15:16
A shame.
A year or so ago I would've given 4 stars at least, maybe even 5. On a weeknight you could sit at the bar, chat with the staff and drink £8 cocktails that were so good and so boozy you actually felt you were ripping them off by not paying twice that. The cocktail menu was about 12 pages long, with all manner of obscure ingredients and interesting combinations. My favourite was the Chilli Chocolate - chillis, chocolate and about 5 types of booze. Mmm... Chilli Choclate...
Sorry, where was I? Oh yes, Anam as it is now. In the past year it's changed management, they've reduced the cocktail menu to a fairly standard one, and turned the music up just a bit too loud for the size of the place. It's not bad, the cocktails are still above average, they still do the Chilli Chocolate (mmm... Chilli Chocolate...), but it just makes me remember how good it was before.
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