Bar Recommendation W1 - quaint & quiet!

[Digger]

After a recommendation for a first date (blindish!) drink in W1. Thursday early evening. Hopefully wherever we end up will not be full of hip noisy kids & will be pleasantly relaxed, I prefer not to pretend to act cool - not my style. We are both early 40's.

Any suggestions? Ta very much . . .

[Mobile Chicane]

Claridge's

[Digger]

By 'eck Lass. Surely too classy for me!

[Wadeski]

Can you be a bit more specific than W1?

[ascayman]

try Andrew Edmunds on lexition street, quirky, relaxed and a cracking wine list.

[Cheib]

The Providores in Marylebone

http://www.theprovidores.co.uk/index.php

Tapas bar so you can get some food if you want without "having dinner"...busy enough so there won't be any awkward silences!

Same theme but bigger and again you can sit at the bar is Iberica

http://www.ibericalondon.co.uk/ibericalondon/iberi...

I prefer Marylebone to Mayfair it's a bit less in your face.....so more appropriate for a first date in my mind. Unless you want to set a high bar!

The bar at Hush might not be a bad shout

http://www.hush.co.uk/

[Mobile Chicane]

Cheib said:

The Providores in Marylebone

http://www.theprovidores.co.uk/index.php

Tapas bar so you can get some food if you want without "having dinner"...busy enough so there won't be any awkward silences!

That's certainly not quiet! The espresso martini is to die for though.

[Cheib]

Mobile Chicane said:

Cheib said:

The Providores in Marylebone

http://www.theprovidores.co.uk/index.php

Tapas bar so you can get some food if you want without "having dinner"...busy enough so there won't be any awkward silences!

That's certainly not quiet! The espresso martini is to die for though.

The OP wanted relaxed not quiet! You don't want anywhere quiet on a first date in my experience....better to be somewhere busy

[Digger]

Thanks guys 'n girls. Actually I did say quiet, but relaxed is a better choice of word! I walk past the providores often & it is quite a busy-looking joint.

[Mobile Chicane]

I'd have said The Providores is a good choice for a first date. The menu is interesting, even if your date isn't.

Plus, the espresso martini

[22s]

Momo on Heddon St. Try and get a table outside if the weather is good. The cocktails are superb - try the Green Beast.

[Luca Brazzi]

One Aldwych.

[Whoozit]

Joe Allen's near Aldwych. Buzzy and subdued at the same time. And you might spot some folk off the telly/theatre.

[Cheib]

Digger said:

Thanks guys 'n girls. Actually I did say quiet, but relaxed is a better choice of word! I walk past the providores often & it is quite a busy-looking joint.

It is reasonably busy but in my mind that's a good thing....you don't want to be somewhere too quiet on a first date (awkward silences), the service is good and if things "go well" you can order tapas without the formality of having "dinner". Just make sure you get there early enough to get a decent table.

Speaking as someone who took the now Mrs Cheib their on our first date

If you want somewhere a bit quieter the other tapas place on Great Portland St has a good bar to sit at...it's much bigger.