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The Westbourne, Notting Hill

28-06-2008

26 Review(s)     

All this bitching about the staff at Westbourne is laughable - it's not as if they're waiters is it ? Just buy your drinks and enjoy your time - surely you're not gonna let a primadonna ruin your evening ?Anyway, the Westbourne lost it a LONG time ago. You'd need to go back about 10 years to experience just how KICKIN' this place really was. Notting Hill the movie hadn't even been conceived yet and even though the area had started to sell out, there was a joyful absence of the media and banking toss-brigade you can't walk through the street without encountering. People were varied and not so keen to let everyone know how many buy-to-lets they had in their portfolio nor would they whinge about not having fireworks attached to the bottle of champagne they ordered at Movida last night . . . .

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Envy, Notting Hill

28-06-2008

42 Review(s)     

To Cat . . . are you serious ? No fireworks on the champagne bottle ??!! I don't know who started this trend but only those desperate for some form of validation would lament its absence. I mean, what is its purpose ? To inform everyone that yes, you are INDEED, ordering champagne ergo you're having a better time than everyone else ? Or perhaps it's to alert any similarly vacuous prospective suitors that you're not afraid to max out your credit in the midst of a credit crunch . . . even if it is only for the night ? Don't be a peasant . . . you're not in Footballer's Wives. Enjoy the champagne for its taste or as a treat, not because it makes you look like something you're not . . . Oh, by the way . . . Envy's not good!

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Trailer Happiness, Notting Hill

31-10-2007

7 Review(s)     

What's worse than the quintessential Notting Hill bar populated by guffawing Bass Weejun-wearing tools who, despite the US sub-prime fallout and subsequent credit-crunch have managed to keep their obscenely well paid "jobs" at UBS Wealth Management ? I'll tell you . . . a bar called Trailer Happiness infested by a hardcore of brainwashed graduates whose aspirations top out at emulating their moneyed compatriots over at the Electric before the US is swept away by a wave of Beijing readies and obtainig a lie-to-buy mortgage on a shoe box in Stanley Gardens for ?500K.The music is straight off "Now 1265 - that's what i call funky" - the atmosphere is almost like New year's Eve when you simply HAVE to have a good one even if the infredients aren't present. Too many bingers, not enough class . . .

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Envy, Notting Hill

14-07-2007

42 Review(s)     

What does Serena mean by "it's a black club right now" ? I think people availing themselves of the area's clubs and bars really need to remember HOW this area became what it was and just how it lost it to the banker influx. Woody's was good 15 years ago - the last incarnation that people seem to be mourning was literally full of idiots.

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Kitchen & Pantry, Notting Hill

06-03-2007

36 Review(s)     

This place is full of it. From the smug looking, wavy-haired, square-jawed, thin-lipped muppets with sweaters STILL - even after ALL these years - tied over their shoulders reading the obligatory broadsheet in a window seat to the not-so yummy mummies parking those three-wheeler prams with the tyres borrowed from the family Porsche Cayenne Sport and the after-market bull bars to protect one fairly ugly - and loud - child.Sure the sofas look dead comfy but there are places with far more character and better produce further north up the Portobello Road.

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