Norwegian Blue

henders

3rd September 2008

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Calm & tranquil in an area otherwise comprising of busy pubs and loud children. For total peace, head upstairs, but upstairs bar rarely open. Never eaten there so cannot comment on food, but drinks reasonable price and staff friendly.

dopeincredible

Dead parrot 2nd September 2008

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The Cumbersome Gift sounds very exciting. I’ve not received a truly cumbersome birthday present since my Action GT Crossbows and Catapults Battleset, and if this is fifty per cent as exciting, it’ll be, well, *very* exciting.

It’s virtually 4 o’clock by the time The Cumbersome Gift arrives home. Sure, it may have kyboshed our Plan A lunch date, but having (I’m told) been approvingly cooed over by shoppers with Less Cumbersome Items, I am quite prepared to forgive it.

With the Cumbersome Gift safely docked in Mrs Wifey’s wardrobe, Plan B demands somewhere (a) prepared to provide lunch and (b) willing to let us soak up the last drops of sun. We stumbled to Norwegian Blue.

The next half an hour held interesting times: either we had breached our credit at the Bank of Karma, or the chef was too busy pining for the fjords to concentrate on the task in hand.

Mrs Wifey’s roast chicken arrived in an unconventional form, namely a butterflied, griddled breast. With a moisture level of zero and the structural integrity of HMS Belfast, any bacteria it may once have contained had quite certainly ceased to be.

Primary school dinners excepted, it was the third worst meal I’d ever seen. (The worst was a chicken sandwich on a Ryanair flight; the second worst was the burger sitting in front of me right now.)

Like the ‘roast’ chicken, my burger was as dry as a prohibition desert rat gorged on silica gel. On the plus side, at least I had a tablespoon of warm coleslaw to help it down.

Getting it down would of course assume that one could dissect the food into bite-size chunks in the first place. In the present instance, the outside of the burger was scorched solid, like a leather pasty. It would have been simpler, and no doubt more tasty, to tuck into my wallet.

With so many urban myths about kitchen staff vandalising food, I prefer never to send back my meal (being more an E. coli culture than a foodstuff, the aforementioned sandwich doesn’t count).

Exhibit A crossed that line. I got a refund instead – they couldn’t tamper with that.

Although if they did, it’d likely be tastier than their pre-match menu.

fruitylala

Good location... 28th August 2008

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I like this bar as it has a really nice modern feel, right in the hub of the other bars and clubs and the cinema is very close so perfect for a night out or a meal before a film. We have had lunch here a few times now and it has always been nice, quite reasonably priced and service is quick. Menu has a slight twist on it than the other big bars and feels a bit more modern and hip. Great place for Vodka and to chill out on a lazy afternoon, or gets quite lively at the weekend and fills up. Upstairs is often quite quiet, so is good for a group to hang out and not get in anyones way too much. As it is so close to the cinema we would often come here for a drink first or after the movie.

greasythug

Norwegian Blue 24th August 2008

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This bar has a massive water feature and a wide range of vodkas.

Watch out for live bands as well as some other food and drink offers.

It's quite a large venue with a woody feel.

The upstairs bar is seldom manned.