{"id":6035,"date":"2009-11-01T12:49:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-01T12:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/noexpert.co.uk\/?p=6035"},"modified":"2021-11-01T22:37:40","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T22:37:40","slug":"the-hide-bar-hidden-gem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/?p=6035","title":{"rendered":"The Hide Bar &#8211; Hidden Gem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a title=\"The Hide Bar\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thehidebar.com\/find.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hide Bar<\/a> is one of my favourite bars. They take drink seriously here, i.e., they do not do any old wines, beers or spirits.\u00a0 They focus on the &#8220;good stuff&#8221; and design a lot of their own cocktails.\u00a0 They also do regular wine, beer and spirit tastings in the back room.<\/p>\n<p>We popped in for a quick drink at Halloween:-.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-6035 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/IMGP25712.JPG'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/IMGP25712-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-6037\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-6037'>\n\t\t\t\tPumpkin Ale\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/IMGP25702.JPG'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/IMGP25702-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-6036\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-6036'>\n\t\t\t\tRuby Shoes\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">They have a pretty basic food menu, and serve some food during the tasting events (normally selected to match the beverages, e.g., Oysters and Champagne, Beer and Sausages, Armagnac and Cheese).\u00a0 The food can be a bit hit and miss &#8211; occasionally very good, but more often fairly ordinary.<\/p>\n<div>\n<dl id=\"attachment_6002\" style=\"width: 160px;\">\n<dt>Marks out of 10<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<p>Food 5<\/p>\n<p>Drink 8<\/p>\n<p>Service 7 (Bar service and waiter\/waitress service)<\/p>\n<p>Ambience 7<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Top page - Noexpert.co.uk\" href=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\">Return to Top Page<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hide Bar is one of my favourite bars. They take drink seriously here, i.e., they do not do any old wines, beers or spirits.\u00a0 They focus on the &#8220;good stuff&#8221; and design a lot of their own cocktails.\u00a0 They also do regular wine, beer and spirit tastings in the back room. We popped in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/?p=6035\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Hide Bar &#8211; Hidden Gem&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[185,7,8],"tags":[268],"class_list":["post-6035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bars-and-gastropubs","category-london","category-uk","tag-hide-bar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6035"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30066,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6035\/revisions\/30066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}