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| - Here's what the Oak Room Lounge has to say about the Oak Room Lounge. Straight from the menu:
"Where the martini crowd mixes with the Microbrew crew, Cosmopolitans enjoy a relaxed chat with the smoothest single malts in town and enticing tapas are both appetizer and accompaniment."
Cool, right? After heading here last week for the first time in my life, I've got to say I think they did a good job summing it up. I'll have to admit I was quite uncomfortable walking into Oak Room - it's positively drenched in feelings gentry, nobility, and covered in a thick layer of that old money vibe. Even in writing this, the voice in my head is starting to take on a smug British caricature. Mmmyes, I do say! Well played 'ol chap. Cheerio! Being a lover of pubs and dive bars, the first feeling I got was one of being instantly aware of my social status, or this case, the lack thereof.
Pulling up a luxurious high-back sitting chair, looking across at the multiple dazzling chadeliers, and listening to the live jazz piano versions of The Beatles' Hey Jude, I slowly eased up into surroundings and you know, I really started liking the place. Oak Room Lounge does exactly what any good pub or dive bar does, it knows its character, and it absolutely owns it! You don't need to come from royalty to enjoy a cocktail here, (but if you do, this is the place to go) you can go because you want to hang out with that crowd. Dress nice, drink tea, eat crumpets, have fun with it! Why? because it IS fun.
Being her majesty the Queen's birthday when I attended, it was a remarkable celebration indeed. (There I go with the accent again...) There was a Korgi to greet me at the door and several cardboard cutout of old mum that I couldn't help myself but to take a selfie with. It's very apparent that while they take their cocktails seriously, they are by no means "uppity" - they just look that way.
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