The Snug Bar High Wycombe — Restaurant in England

Background info I have been here 10-20 times this year and I will probably keep coming here. I live locally and there's not to many options of going out in HW, so no other choice but make better the ones we have :). My 2 cents on the business: What is great: Staff is nice and helpful Great location Happy hour Diverse and interesting crowd Bouncers seem alright The DJ I have seen plays good songs

What can be improved: The Menu : and this brings up a whole bunch of problems. The menu tries to be everything for everyone and instead is nothing to nobody. You don't need 50 drinks in a menu. Just have 6-8 signature drinks, 6-10 classics and 2 sharers and make them great each time and with love and passion. It's a shame since you have great staff, and they look passionate about the job but I have been in their place and it's frustrating working with a menu like this. The bar area looks messy, again large menus = a lot of ingredients, a lot of plastic squeeze bottles, a lot of ingredients crammed in one place. New staff will have problems learning the menu hence quality of drinks will not be consistent. Some drinks aren't garnished at all. Customers will take longer to order = idle times, business loses money

Gin menu : -Choose your gins better ( beefeater, sure use it for rail but I wouldn't put it on a gin list) Organise your gins better flavour/notes(floral, citrus, herbaceous, etc.) , types.. -Unless Fever Tree gives you a lot of money or a good retro on sales you don't need to write the brand before each type of tonic. Just write on top or bottom All gins come as double served with Fever Tree tonic. You just saved writing Fever Tree 21 times or 210 characters.

The venue: Looks decrepit, although runned bars have a certain veneer, it's thought to pull off unless you know what you're doing. Restored wood, Tacky antiques and decor,used chairs can be cool if you know how to use them properly, peeling paint or missing paint is not. Dirty menus are not cool Needs a good scrub.

Closing argument : Bars need to have a unique selling point in this day and age. Good drinks,food,service should support the uniqueness of your place and should be the bare minimum , something this bar fails to do. I'll keep coming back , and hopefully some things...

This cocktail bar is definitely worth a visit if in High Wycombe. The selection of cocktails they have are brilliant. If I remember they have an online menu to which you can check out, though they were slightly different to when we were physically there. At the time of writing this this I had been a few days prior, and they have a 2 for 1 promotion on selected cocktails. We had the Shark Week which was delicious! You had to get two of the same which is standard. We also ordered 3 shots for £10. These weren't your generic shots either, they were really nice interesting mixed shots. We has the raspberry lemon drop I think it was called, and I had ordered one extra (as the deal was 3 of the same shots for £10) which was one I would rather not write down here (some might know what special shot I'm referring too) and it was great. Bar staff were great, very pleasant and upbeat, and when we left and said goodbye, they told us to keep hydrated which is always a good touch. Wish I could the barmans name that night, but thanks for doing my big drink request without anything but a smile :)

My only word of warning to people is that the venue is a little small so later in the evening, it can get a little packed. Otherwise a great bar which I definitely will be...

Went to order and it seemed like we were causing the barman inconvenience. They didn’t have ingredients for our order which was fine. We’d order something else and we did. Went to reorder and they had run out of one of the ingredients so we said no problem, we’ll have it without. This took some time as he did not have enough to make the full amount and had a discussion with another bartender about the shopping they needed but he said, hold on, I’ll see if I can make it with this. It didn’t work as he couldn’t pour it so the lady went next door to get milk. On her return, he whizzed up some milk and ice cream to make up the shortfall. He then poured honeycomb over the top which we had asked him to leave off. He asked me if I wanted a spoon to fish it off and decided he was going to do it. He did and handed it back to me with a shortfall in the glass but that was probably because it was all slopping down the sides. Unfortunate as the last time the woman served us and she couldn’t have been more friendly and professional. My friend felt that it was an inconvenience to order...