October 16, 2007

Just a quick note on the Grammercy Park Hotel Bars. First of all, they are nice. The drinks are OK. And the art work is large. (I’m not allowed to say anything bad about the hotel and bar or Kim will kill me.)

Just a simple note of caution if you do go to either the Gramercy Park Hotel Rose Bar or Jade Bar, which, stupidly enough, are right next to each other separated by only a door, do not take a large group there. Definition of a large group is more than 4. If you stay under four people, you might all get chairs with backs. If you go above four (4), some of you will be sitting on these horrible little stools. Even the Jade bar bar has chairs. Most of the chairs in the lounge area are unforgiving stools.

Why? Don’t ask. But we had eight people and we had to move at least once to try and find an area that was comfortable. We were harried and harassed by the management as we became Bedouins in search of comfortable eating. Ojala! Did we find the promised seating? No we did not. However, even after complaining, I was told that look, you can sit on a chair but your beloved family may not. Sob.

So, what did we do? Well, we knuckled under and sat on stools. Sigh. Stools. Such a nice bar and we had to sit on stools. The service was decent and the drinks were wet the only thing missing was the backs on our chairs.