Review - Lucia Wine Bar & Grill *
New review now online, here’s the summary:
Nestled snugly in the centre of the Swinegate Quarter is Swinegate Court, home to a couple of late night wine bars, one of which is Lucia. Spread over several rooms and across buildings it is a sprawling club like venue upstairs with the ground floor reserved for exclusively for dining. Everywhere you look is sparking blinged up chrome, glass and overly trendy chandelier lighting. There’s loads of seating hidden here and there but the bar is very much aimed at wine and discount style cocktails, not a decent beer in sight, even the bottle offers were severely limited. The self-titled Mediterranean courtyard is little more than some seating round the alley with awning covers and heaters, more styled towards seated diners than drinkers, really not that good a space. All in all this is a pretty horrible place of thumping cheesy dance music and extremely overprices drinks. Appealing to singles and large screechy groups, very unrefined despite the gaudy glittering décor. It’s all style and no substance and really not worth the time of day.
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