Avoid, avoid, avoid. I’ll start by saying I don’t often write reviews but in this case I feel that it is absolutely necessary . We attempted to visit 55 Wade Street on a Thursday night for a date after seeing that it was both highly rated and recommended. We arrived to find the place pretty much empty at around 8:30 pm. There was one guy working behind the bar who we approached and asked if we could have a table. This seemed to surprise him, and he then proceeded to tell us that they had been ‘so busy’ that day that they had ‘run out of food’ and that the head Chef had made the call to ‘close the kitchen.’ Judging by the lack of people in the place, the fact the weather had been miserable all day and it being a Thursday... I found this story very hard to believe. Slightly disappointed, we then asked if we could just have a drink instead whilst we figured out where else we can eat. The Barman gave us a menu and we set about choosing our drinks, thankful at least that it was 2 for 1 cocktails that evening. Whilst we were choosing, the Barman confessed (we didn’t even ask) that he didn’t actually know how to make the majority of the cocktails on there, as ‘they hadn’t taught him,’ but that he would give them a try... He seemed to be looking for advice also from the one other person at the Bar, who was sat lounging on his phone with his feet up in the corner and may also have worked at 55 Wade Street. In the end I ordered an Old Fashioned and she ordered a gin based cocktail and we were told to be seated and he’d bring it over. When the drinks arrived, I can honestly say I have never tasted a worse Old Fashioned. Firstly, the sugar was floating in the drink still - for which the Barman gave me a straw to ‘try and stir it in’, the ice was your big standard ice pack ice that melted immediately and there was no garnishing at all. Her cocktail (I forget the name) was equally bad, as it should have been over crushed ice (not a couple of cubes of bog standard ice) and it should have been in some kind of nice glass with some garnishing (it was just in a half pint glass). It also, like the Old Fashioned, tasted terrible. We ended up leaving our drinks and heading in search of somewhere else. I’ll finish by saying I honestly cannot understand why this place has so many good reviews given our experience. My only guess is that a lot of these reviews are either fake or written by ‘friends’ of the establishment. I would avoid this place at all costs.