You watch circus acts while you eat – often right in front of your nose – at this year-old Covent Garden burlesque-joint; the few reports it attracts suggest it’s a “vibrant” experience, from which the cooking does not positively detract.
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Sometimes even the smoothly oiled Harden’s inspection programme derails. As the subject of this piece is a cabaret venue, we had obviously intended to visit in the evening. Serendipity, however, ...
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Press Reviews (2)
Marina O'Loughlin (4th March 2010)
4/5 stars
Expecting little, our heroine leaves this Covent newcomer “p***ed as a rat, happy as Larry and not entirely convinced she hasn’t proclaimed undying love for the waitress”. To understand why, yoo’ll perhaps have to read the whole review.
Fay Maschler (21st January 2010)
2/5 stars
“Over the past few months enough restaurants with cabaret — perhaps better more loosely described as entertainment — have opened for that to be declared a trend”, says the critic. Initial impressions of this Covent Garden newcomer, however, are not impressive. “Sitting at a wobbling table in Circus where a DJ and miserable acoustics preclude hearing any bons mots from dining companions, peering around structural columns that obscure the view, watching a woman in a tiger-skin leotard that looks rescued from the bottom of the laundry basket writhing on a suspended hoop in a manner that suggested she failed the entrance exam for Cirque du Soleil while nibbling on a glazed chicken wing, I wondered what it is all about.” At now point afterwards do her doubts evaporate.
Marina O'Loughlin (4th March 2010)
Fay Maschler (21st January 2010)
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