I always get excited when I see my name has been used for a business whether it be a restaurant, a shop, a building so I got super excited when I heard there was a grace bar opening in London and even more excited when I heard there was a bar named for my last name. Therefore I decided to have a grace kua night for fun.

grace bar turned out to be where sugar reef used to be. I don’t know why they felt they needed to rebrand and refit the bar since sugar reef seemed okay as it was but hey what are you to do. We started with some dinner in the bar section of the grace bar (as opposed to the restaurant) and I’m afraid to say the experience was a little disappointing. Though our waitress was friendly enough when we got her attention – she was not very good at her job and as a result we barely saw her and she forgot one of our orders. Additionally the bar was extremely slow in getting our drinks ready and the kitchen super slow in getting our (overcooked) burgers out to us. Very disappointing and if we hadn’t had the 50% food and drinks voucher I might have had words.

Hilariously I asked for a kahlua and milk drink for my second drink and they served it as two separate drinks:

After our dinner and a couple of drinks we decided to head over to the second half of the evening – the kua bar. The kua bar is located in the Cumberland Hotel just behind Marble Arch. Unfortunately the closest we got was the door because apparently it had shut for the night (it was only 8.15!)! Apparently it’s a bar that the hotel keeps open for as long as they have customers … I guess tonight it was a quiet one.