Well, there's not a lot of nice things to say about this place. Basically this is a private party venue with a cash bar and someone Dj'ing. Not a lot for staff to do, but serve drinks and er...not much else. It was loud, but it's what you'd expect from a party atmosphere, so this isn't a negative really.
Good points...Looks nice from the outside, and looks nice on the inside too....that's about it for good points!
Listing the bad points is a little bit longer of a list. Firstly there were no real staff outside the bar area and I had to ask a random person about toilets. Once in the toilets er, it was not pleasant. The ladies toilet had more than one stall without locks on the door and neither had screwed down toilet seats! The men's was better maintained, but smelt strongly of urine basically because of the slick of urine on the floor.
I'll try to fill in the background a little of why were at the club. We'd just went to my younger brother's wedding and had a big meal at a Pissarro's in Hastings (yeah I'll be doing a review of them too.) then we went to Black Market VIP to have the reception and celebrate the marriage. It was a very long day for all concerned, where it rained constantly from when we left the church at 2.30pm until 9pm.
Which leads me on to the next problem which is a more major one I believe. The bar and bar-staff; My sister offered to buy myself and my wife a drink from the bar, we both said "yes, that would be awesome!" So I chose a cider, and Elle wanted a cocktail, but wasn't sure which so went with my sister to the bar to choose.
Ok, correct me if I'm wrong, if you work in a bar, a cocktail lounge, or a pub, you're supposed to know how to make a basic cocktail? Well they didn't. Elle went to the bar and asked for a cocktail, their response was to say "Sorry, we're not doing cocktails today, cause if we have to stand here and mix cocktails it'll cause too much of a fuss...."! Elle was getting a little emotional now after such a long day and the staff basically agreed that they would make a cocktail. Elle asked for a cosmopolitan, they said "Ok, what are the ingredients?" To this Elle was pretty shocked. So decided on something easier when she saw some absinthe sitting on the shelves behind them, and said "ok, you don't know how to make that, how about some absinthe instead?" To this she was told "We don't have any absinthe!" To this she pointed to a bottle of Pernod saying "That's absinthe over there!". So they poured her some neat! "This isn't how you serve absinthe, she told them!" The bar staff looked at each other saying "ok, how are you supposed to serve it?" Elle explained that it is served with water poured over a cube of sugar into a glass. To this the bar staff said "You want it with water?" Elle found this infuriating and very upsetting and told them to forget it! Went back over to where I was sitting and burst into tears. My sister followed and gave me my drink which was warm. Apparently they haven't heard of cold cider in Hastings.
If you run a bar, you need to know how to serve the drinks that you're selling. The staff weren't trained for anything other than pulling pints or taking the lids off bottles. Avoid them if you want a have a good time or a cocktail! read more