{"id":6945,"date":"2010-01-10T20:42:42","date_gmt":"2010-01-10T20:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/noexpert.co.uk\/?p=6945"},"modified":"2021-11-01T23:40:41","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T23:40:41","slug":"city-cafe-winter-in-the-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/?p=6945","title":{"rendered":"City Cafe &#8211; Winter in the City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>January is a normally a quiet time for Hotels and Restaurants, so there does tend to be a lot of offers on the go. The <a title=\"City Inn\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cityinn.com\/london\/london-hotels.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">City Inn<\/a> for example are currently doing 2 for 1 meal offers in their City Cafe Restaurant.<\/p>\n<p>We did not bother booking, we just turned up with our voucher and as expected the restaurant was not busy, only half a dozen tables were being used. Which is not a problem as the restaurant layout is split up nicely into separate sections.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-6945 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/tn_P1000315.JPG'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/tn_P1000315-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/tn_P1000316.JPG'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/tn_P1000316-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/tn_P1000319.JPG'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/tn_P1000319-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/tn_P1000321.JPG'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/tn_P1000321-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/tn_P1000328.JPG'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/tn_P1000328-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/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\/2010\/01\/tn_P1000327.JPG'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/tn_P1000327-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>The service was good and the food was nicely presented. Nothing stand out, but a pleasant meal for a winter evening. We started with a hearty Pumpkin Soup and a very nice Pork Belly dish, then Steak and Frites, finishing with a Raspberry Brulee and an apple tart with cinder toffee sauce. We also had two glasses of wine (the City Cafe has a reliable wine list and they do quite a few by the glass) and a bottle of mineral water. The two for one deal worked out well, our meal which should have been \u00a350 a head, worked out at \u00a325 a head, a good price for London.<\/p>\n<p>For more on the City Cafe, see Post:-<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"City Cafe - Summer in the City\" href=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/?p=689\" target=\"_self\">City Cafe &#8211; Summer in the City<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Marks out of 10<\/p>\n<p>Food 5.5<\/p>\n<p>Service 5<\/p>\n<p>Ambience 4<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE : November 2010 &#8211; The City Inn has been rebranded and is now the <a title=\"The Mint Hotel\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marketingweek.co.uk\/sectors\/travel-and-leisure\/city-inn-rebrands-to-mint-hotel-ahead-of-business-uplift\/3021050.article\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mint Hotel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE : January 2012 &#8211; This hotel has now been rebranded as a DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE : May 2013 &#8211; Not sure if Hilton are paying much attention to the restaurant now, when I have passed by it at lunch times during the week and weekends it has been completely empty.<\/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>January is a normally a quiet time for Hotels and Restaurants, so there does tend to be a lot of offers on the go. The City Inn for example are currently doing 2 for 1 meal offers in their City Cafe Restaurant. We did not bother booking, we just turned up with our voucher and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/?p=6945\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;City Cafe &#8211; Winter in the City&#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":[7,8],"tags":[70,619,456],"class_list":["post-6945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-london","category-uk","tag-city-cafe","tag-doubletree-hilton","tag-mint-hotel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6945","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=6945"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30137,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6945\/revisions\/30137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}