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"Your comments are a bit harsh! Have been coming to EastWest for years. The food is easily the best Chinese in Reading - especially the traditional ie true Chinese menu. The ambience is good, the music usually adds something. And the Salsa nights are great. Not sure what you meant about 80s feel; it certainly doesn't resemble anything I vaguely remember suffering through in that decade. But I do agree it can be a bit unusual at first, the juxtaposition of food vs bar/music. I think what I like most is the absence of drunken, testosterone-driven teenagers. So let's hope they survive and thrive!"
Rick, UK. August 15, 2010.
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"Your comments are a bit harsh! Have been coming to EastWest for years. The food is easily the best Chinese in Reading - especially the traditional ie true Chinese menu. The ambience is good, the music usually adds something. And the Salsa nights are great. Not sure what you meant about 80s feel; it certainly doesn't resemble anything I vaguely remember suffering through in that decade. But I do agree it can be a bit unusual at first, the juxtaposition of food vs bar/music. I think what I like most is the absence of drunken, testosterone-driven teenagers. So let's hope they survive and thrive!"
Rick, UK. August 15, 2010.
East West Bar
Address:
108A Friar Street
Reading
Berkshire
RG1 1EP
Tel: 0118 958 8866
Rating:
(Review date: June 2010) your comments (1)
There’s something quite bizarre about the East West Bar.
Its attempt to combine a Chinese restaurant adjacent to a cocktail bar and dance floor, complete with eighties-style disco lighting, transports you back to the venues you may have frequented on your first teenage holiday abroad sans parents.
Unfortunately it just doesn’t really work. The three component parts jar against each other to create a rather unsettling warehouse-type space which is trying to be all things to all man but fails on every account.
We were lured in by the promise of cheap cocktails by a ‘tout’ on the door - again conjuring up memories of those first heady days on a Balearic island or somewhere similar.
The two-for-one deal offered a limited choice and despite the mixologist behind the bar seeming professional, the end result was a fairly insipid beverage which tasted watery and dull.
There were a few diners looking rather wide-eyed and confused as they sucked on their noodles bathed into blue and red spots while cheap booze hunters rapidly imbibed their uninspired drinks and left.
With any new venue there’s always a chicken and egg syndrome to start with - if no-one is inside, no-one tends to go inside. But East West Bar has many more issues to contend with if it is to survive.
It needs to work out exactly what it wants to be and stick with it - we suggest ditching the attempt at a restaurant (or moving it upstairs if there’s space) and concentrating on being a bar/club because quite frankly we doubt it will still be open in a year’s time if it doesn’t.
Visit: www.eastwestbar.co.uk
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Address:
108A Friar Street
Reading
Berkshire
RG1 1EP
Tel: 0118 958 8866
Rating:
(Review date: June 2010) your comments (1)
There’s something quite bizarre about the East West Bar.
Its attempt to combine a Chinese restaurant adjacent to a cocktail bar and dance floor, complete with eighties-style disco lighting, transports you back to the venues you may have frequented on your first teenage holiday abroad sans parents.
Unfortunately it just doesn’t really work. The three component parts jar against each other to create a rather unsettling warehouse-type space which is trying to be all things to all man but fails on every account.
We were lured in by the promise of cheap cocktails by a ‘tout’ on the door - again conjuring up memories of those first heady days on a Balearic island or somewhere similar.
The two-for-one deal offered a limited choice and despite the mixologist behind the bar seeming professional, the end result was a fairly insipid beverage which tasted watery and dull.
There were a few diners looking rather wide-eyed and confused as they sucked on their noodles bathed into blue and red spots while cheap booze hunters rapidly imbibed their uninspired drinks and left.
With any new venue there’s always a chicken and egg syndrome to start with - if no-one is inside, no-one tends to go inside. But East West Bar has many more issues to contend with if it is to survive.
It needs to work out exactly what it wants to be and stick with it - we suggest ditching the attempt at a restaurant (or moving it upstairs if there’s space) and concentrating on being a bar/club because quite frankly we doubt it will still be open in a year’s time if it doesn’t.
Visit: www.eastwestbar.co.uk
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