A classic hotel bar which is a popular stop-off on the way to or from the station.

The Venue
There’s a painting of the Queen over the bar. No, it’s not gratuitously, outrageously royalist, but a reference to when Queen Victoria and her family hired out a suite here during a stop-over in 1854.

While Her Madge may not have approved of the fruit machines which are present here, she would have appreciated the decor, which includes the original high, decorated honeycomb ceiling with its panes of glass letting the sunlight through in the day.

There are chandeliers in the ceiling too, with mini versions on the cream walls. The seating comes in the form of groups of dark two-seater vinyl sofas, wooden bucket chairs and gentleman’s club-style fabric wing armchairs.

Big plant pots sprouting green fronded plants adorn the room and the wooden bar has a brown marble-effect counter and a mirrored back bar. The big pillars apparently hide the wiring after an electrical fault caused a fire, which badly damaged one of the upper floors a few years ago. There’s the almost wholly wood-panelled Prince of Wales bar too, which only opens on special occasions.

The People
You get residents and older folk in here, as well as wedding parties and conference delegates. But it’s also a good place to sit and relax if you’re meeting someone from the station (which it backs on to) or for travellers themselves.

The Food and Drink
At the bar you’ve got Carling, Caffrey’s, Blackthorn, Worthington’s, Red C Cider, Murphy’s and Grolsch on tap. In bottles you’ve got Clausthaler, Coors Light, Beck’s, Newcastle Brown, Holsten Pils, Sol and Miller.

It’s £3.95 for a 175ml glass of house wine with bottles ranging from £14.95 to £20 and a bottle of Mansard Brut Champagne is £32.20. They’ll do you a Cosmopolitan for £3.95 too.

Hotel grub is never cheap and this place is no exception, so a Welsh rarebit is £6.95 while an all-day breakfast is £7.95. A triple club sandwich is £7.95 too, and a chicken tikka masala is £9.95. Thai fishcakes are £9.95 and a small Caesar salad £4.94. It’s worth stopping off for a coffee, which is Lavazza and comes with a dinky little amaretto biscuit.

The Last Word
A comfortable pit-stop for a coffee or something stronger if you’re using the train station.

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