Roadhouse is one of those cheesy bars you roll into after all the pubs close and you don’t necessarily want to go clubbing but you still want your night to continue on. Situated in Covent Garden it is conveniently located. The bar is 1980s themed in both style and music played. Late at night it becomes a definite drunken meat market. Still, it can be quite good fun despite the cheese factor and sometimes you just need a place to not take yourself so seriously.

Tonight Pauline and I were looking for a budget venue for dinner and surprisingly Roadhouse popped up as a option. With their 2-4-1 cocktail happy hours and the 2 courses and a cocktail for £11.95 we didn’t think we could go wrong. Be warned that the 2-4-1 cocktail deal depends on you both getting the same cocktail – we didn’t realise this and made the mistake of ordering different cocktails so ended up with four cocktails instead of two! A bit much on an empty stomach but I guess a cocktail is a cocktail and you can’t throw them back!

The menu options for the two course deal has a fair bit of variety for everyone though the focus is on Americanised food (bbq and Mexican.) I was actually surprised that the portions we received were very generous and the food itself was surprisingly good tasting (even if my salmon appeared deep fried rather than grilled!) I didn’t see the full price a la carte menu but fair to say we definitely got a bargain tonight for what we ate (and drank!) Service was fairly friendly if a bit forceful.

So, overall, the Roadhouse is not a bad place to grab a quick bite to eat. Especially during happy hour.