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Saturday 2nd October 2004

The Zeta Bar at the Park Lane Hilton

Note from Tanya on Monday 4th October 2004
"I went to the Zeta Bar at the Park Lane Hilton on Saturday night
- was on a guest list (of someone I had never met)
so didn't have to pay the £25.00 cover charge - convert that to dollars!!
It was full of people who had money
but didn't know what to do with it
and the guy outside the door revving the crap out of his Ferrari gave us a good laugh!
Drinks were pretty pricey so my two friends
and I ordered the "cheapest bottle of wine you have" - we are all class!!
It was nice to be out somewhere nice though
It was very posh with a 'no denim' rule (which sucked - I live in my jeans!)
but gave us a chance to get all dressed up
and not end up with 'snakebikes' down our clothes from drunk slobbery Aussie boys!
Tanya"

......and there are some "very glamourous" photos below

Zeta
35 Hertford Street, London, W1J 7SD

A sleek, funky, Feng Shui inspired design is the ethos behind the Hilton Hotel’s new bar
The natural approach extends to the impressive cocktail list with drinks
that include fresh fruit and vegetable juices, packed with vitamins and minerals!
And after you’ve been good, indulge yourself with some of the
finest power-packed cocktails in London and who knows what can happen…

Review #1 - So trendy as to be beyond parody, the Zeta Bar needs to be experienced at least once, if only so you can talk about it afterwards.
Concealed from inquisitive view behind opaque windows, bathed in greenish light, it dispenses cocktails such as the Free Radical - rum, apple, mango and pineapple 'muddled' with blueberries and strawberries - and the Fiddich Flower, made with ginger, elderflower and 15-year-old Glenfiddich, which is likely to have the Scotch Malt Whisky Society cancelling all leave.
We found Reserved signs on every table, though one Zeta Bar old hand cheerfully told us they were 'completely meaningless'.
Staff, it has to be said, are friendly enough, though it's a brave man who'd ask for a brown ale and a packet of pork scratchings.
A word of warning to the uninitiated who visit the gents - the long, gleaming trough ahead of you is not the urinal.

Review #2 - A playground under the Park Lane Hilton filled with rich daddies girls and eurotrash.
Absolutely hilarious if you're less than independently wealthy and didn't really believe these places existed.
The venue itself is beautifully decorated and the drinks and food are delicious.
Most importantly, princess types in Manolos are pure comedy after their fourth bellini.
WARNING - if you stop laughing for long enough to look at your receipt you'll probably have a heart attack.

......and here are Tanya and her friends

Amanda Tanya---------- Catherine Amanda Tanya

Catherine Amanda Tanya Lee