Velvet is a funky night out and a superb place to go for lunch!
The music is loud and fun, the people are friendly and the atmosphere is great! The decor is wooden floors mixed with fantastic colours for the seating, etc and very well maintained. The staff always helpful and approachable ... Read review
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Velvet is a funky night out and a superb place to go for lunch!
The music is loud and fun, the people are friendly and the atmosphere is great! The decor is wooden floors mixed with fantastic colours for the seating, etc and very well maintained. The staff always helpful and approachable and the beer’s reasonably priced for the City centre!
The food is expensive but very well prepared and beautifully presented. The potato ... more
Velvet is a funky night out and a superb place to go for lunch!
The music is loud and fun, the people are friendly and the atmosphere is great! The decor is wooden floors mixed with fantastic colours for the seating, etc and very well maintained. The staff always helpful and approachable and the beer’s reasonably priced for the City centre!
The food is expensive but very well prepared and beautifully presented. The potato skins with cheese and bacon are definitely worth a try (although expensive for the size of the portion).
Advantages: Palms, Palaces, Pines, Peaks, Parks, Past history Disadvantages: Soviet-style shabbiness, scant shopping (if this is a disadvantage)
?Where would you say we are?? My wife asked.
Fortunately, I knew the question was not intended literally, so I did not reply: ?In the gardens of the Vorontsov Palace, near Yalta on the Black Sea coast of the Crimean peninsula.?
Instead, gazing down over the slopes of cypress, pine and cedar towards the glimmering sea, I said: ?Somewhere Mediterranean, obviously.? The fragrance of the gardens and the temperature confirmed the impression. In early October it was pleasantly into the lower 20˚Cs for what is known in these parts as the velvet season ? a term used much like our ?Indian summer?.
I looked back up the terraces flanked with palms and sleeping marble lions. ?A villa on the Cap d?Antibes?? But the Vorontsov Palace itself is unlike anything on the Côte d?Azur, or anywhere else for that matter: a bizarre cross ...
torr 17.10.2004
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: exceptional Review of Crimea
Advantages: Excellent food. Disadvantages: Overcrowded at night
Velvet, situated at the Piccadilly end of Canal Street is a small, well decorated basement cafe bar. The steps into the bar include an underfoot fishtank - surreal, but cool. In the daytime it is possible to drink or eat outside on Canal Street in the summer. The food served throughout the day is excellent and reasonably priced, with generous portion sizes. For night-time eating, it is best to book a table in advance. At night, it becomes less of a restaurant and more of a bar, attracting young sophisticants. Do make sure you go to the loo to enjoy watching QVC as you relieve yourself! ...
britcub 26.07.2000
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful Review of Velvet
So there i was, walking down Charing Cross in the late hours of a wednesday night when all of a sudden, i see the entrance of this tiny club. And when i mean tiny, i mean tiny. Still, i suppose a cramped, hot, steaming environment is just the kinda scene with the girls who were there, not the usual crowd of Yuppees who walk around with a weird looking blue cocktail in one hand and the keys to their volvos in another. The only draw back i could think of was that there was no dj, but that didn't make too much differnece to the atmosphere, which was as good as any london club ive been to. So, for all the price of a couple of pints, why not stroll on over to the velvet Room, which has to be one of the coolest clubs around that way for sure! ...
