Coventry goes glam....no, really! (The Earsldon Cottage Wine Bar)

Member Name: carlos141

Product:	The Earsldon Cottage Wine Bar
Date:	11/02/09 (53 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Great decor and sound system, more club than pub

Disadvantages: Little but snobby, little bit expensive

It is amazing how easy it is to forget that Earlsdon has enough pubs/bars to merit a night out on its own, or at least a warm up for a night in Coventry centre (or further afield! The train station is only a 5 minute bus ride away). Its also fairly busy in the week too, and its pretty much the only Coventry suburb with any nightlife of its own to speak of.

I've lived in Coventry most of my life and only made it to the Cottage for the first time a couple of years ago. Go in on a Saturday night in this unassuming pub entrance in a quiet back street parallel to Earlsdon High Street (there is another entrance on the main street) and it really impresses...fantastic sound system playing funky house, lights, shadows, fairly large open space, with space out back to talk and hang about under heated cover in the garden area. The place had a £1m refurb and its worth every penny. If you've been to the Arcadian bars in Birmingham like Poppy Red and Indi Bar, this is a similar sort of place.

The problem with bars of this sort in Coventry is that they sometimes fill with chavs and lose any material edge they started off with. Blunt but true! Prague by the bus station suffered badly in this respect and closed, the Old Fire Station nearby and Dogma have a similar feel to the Cottage in that same central area and aren't too bad, but here the Cottage is backed up by other pubs and you don't feel out on a limb...anyway back to the Cottage.

The other review pretty much says it all, it IS a little bit of a posery place, for those a bit more self conscious of their look, there are some stunning men and women in there (he thought!) but don't expect magnificent depth, even if the place is genuinely rockin'. £2-£10 door fee on Saturday and Sundays, depending on if there is a DJ in of note or not.

If you're going in in the day, the food and cocktails are yummy, all the furniture and candles are out and you pretty much have the place to yourself!

One quick tip- don't queue for ages in the main bar to get served- go straight into the regular pub 'snug' for the locals (left as you go in the main entrance) and grab as many drinks as you want, then sneak through into the garden.....!

Summary: Well worth the short trip out from town