Review

As a stylish bar on Kings Road, playing loud music on a Saturday night, you can imagine the people this place attracts, and on the night we paid a visit there certainly was a totty-tastic array of bright young things here. Very much in the style of Edwards and All Bar One, but on an even more upmarket scale (this is Chelsea y'know) and so to keep things more dignified a strict policy of over-21s only is enforced by the bouncer at the door, even going to the extent of demanding ID from and turning away the sort of people who all too easily manage to blag their way in elsewhere.

One unique selling point for this pub is that it sells Olives - of the many pubs we have visited researching this guide, this is genuinely a first, and had us rather excited until we realised that it didn't seem the ideal beer accompaniment, and went for the traditional bag of crisps instead.

The pub has a big screen which was showing Casualty on our visit. Of course, the volume was turned down, so you are treated to blood, guts and Kylie with your beer. Nice. The tv was switched over to the football later which was equally unappealing.

A nice feature which is still the exception rather than the norm is the availability of sofas near the big screen making it feel like you are sitting in your front room with a 60 inch TV and infinite supply of beer. Even the toilets are attractively decorated with warm pastel coloured tiling and wooden features (including the toilet seats!)

The sign above the bar reads "4 pint pitcher of Carling - £" - which seems quite a bargain especially for Chelsea (Does that mean one pound, zero pounds, or "if you have to ask the price, you can't afford it"?)

This seems to be one of the few pubs in Chelsea with a quiz machine (with Around The World in 80 days, Trivial Pursuit, Spot The Difference, Castles and others), and also was the only pub we visited in one night that played chart music from the last ten years.