The Soho Wine Bar, Soho

What a shame that this nice venue is let down by its awful staff and business ethics. Booked an area in the venue six weeks in advance by going in and speaking to the bar manager, told her that there would be about 100 people attending and that we would like to have guest list all night so that late comers could get in ok. She even said we could have free entry. The booking was later confirmed by email...twice..
Well the day of the party rolls round..first of all we get there (on time) only to find our fairly large reserved area, reserved by nothing more then a small bit of paper with 'reserved' on it, which obviously was ignored - 'not my problem was the bar managers response'.
Moving on to around 10.30 - they decided to stop letting people in, when we asked if they could let our guests in, as was previously agreed, the bar manager went on a rant about how it was there fault they were late and we haddnt given her enough notice (6 weeks not enough?), and that we should have organised our guests better etc, refusing to let anyone else in, including my brother, and finally threatening to throw me out because i dared to question her bar managedment skills!
In short very rude staff with massive chips on both shoulders, do not book a party there! on the other hand if you jsut want a cool little venue for a drink, you could do worse..

5 Sep 2006 16:59