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Jazz After Dark

Jazz After Dark

9 Greek Street London, W1D4DQ, W1D 4DQ, United Kingdom

Beer • Wine • Continental • International


"We reserved four seats at Jazz After Dark recommend by their website . When we arrived, it took several minutes to find our reservation no problem, it happens. But then it took more time to find us a spot which was strange, because we reserved four seats, in a tiny venue with mainly four seater tables, so I thought they would hold seats for everyone that reserved a spot apparently not and we ended up in a “side room” that was essentially behind the stage. We couldn’t see the band. Our waitress had to cross the stage every time she came to take an order. Kind of strange for paying 15£ per person to reserve seats. But it unfortunately got worse. Only part of the band was present at the start, and they just played some standards and did some fun riffs nothing amazing but entertaining nonetheless. And then the singer for the evening came on stage. There’s no easy way to say it, the singing was just quite awful. Off key, singing way beyond the range, reading the lyrics to every song off of an iPhone they had to their face the entire time. Making up the playlist as they went along, clearly no alignment with the band on said playlist, which ended up being more pop covers than anything to do with jazz. So after 45 minutes of witnessing a terrible singer, who had to read the lyrics as they were singing as if it were karaoke , and a jazz band poorly cover pop songs imagine someone that cannot sing well trying to cover songs by Whitney Houston or Adele.. we decided we had enough and simply left. It’s not clear to me if this awful singer was a one time thing. But it was clearly a random match of singer to band, without any alignments or planned set lists. The entire evening felt like below ameture level. And we paid 15£ drinks to witness it."

Aria Restaurant

Aria Restaurant

The Hyatt Hotel 2 Bridge Street Birmingham, West Midlands B1 2JZ, United Kingdom

Cafés • Pizza • European • Vegetarian


"I like to spend special occasions on the table. I enjoy, above all, the British tradition of the afternoon, with its combination of aromas and sweets. with a birthday to celebrate we decided to give aria restaurant on a jump. it is located in one of the most striking buildings on the lively broad street, the hyatt regency birmingham. atmosphere the hotel is a large modern building with a glamorous interieur. enormous leaf trees and plants penetrate the tee room, which flows with the light through the very high glass ceiling. the ambiente is very quiet and relaxing with background music and the cooling sound of a water. there are generous space between tables that have a bit more private sphere to enjoy themselves and almost forget the other diners. foods a afternoon tablet with delicate sweets and aromen was served with our tees. After reading other reviews before, I expected certain options that did not appear. I realized that the hotel varies from time to time the afternoon menu. the waiter asked about special requirements and in my case I am not a fan of mayonnaise so they were happy to make a few alternative sandwich options for me. there was a nice selection of “sans crust” fingersandwiches, which put together two-bite sections: cheese and cucumber, salmon and cheese, bark and gherkin, sink and sink, ice and cres and (for me) thunfisch and tomaten. two more alternative fillings I had were goat cheese and caramelized red wobble, and carrot and hummus. the sweets on the tablet were homemade simple scones, apple cake, black forest cake and a modern twist of the classic strawberry cake. Cloped cream, celestial and earthy jam was available to hide the scones. we haven't spent much time looking for the tea and coffee menu, as we already knew what we wanted. Among the options they can choose, however, are a lot of freshly brewed, loose leafed and ground coffee. I went for my ordinary zitrusig earl grey tee, while my partner decided to have a classic breakfast with milk. not complaining. Pricing traditional afternoon tea will be at £19.00 per person, £28.00 per person if you decide to go for the champagne afternoon tea or £30.00 for the rose champagne afternoon tea. the afternoon was perfect: a beautiful place, friendly and attentive staff, great service, excellent food and a relaxing atmosphere. I would consider it the perfect way to celebrate a special occasion."