Few weeks ago I went to Metropolitan with a friend and our children for a coffee while waiting for our partners. We had planned to have dinner there altogether. We sat at the area next to the pizza place. The area was almost empty just our table and another one with a group of people. The people sat on the other table started to shushed almost since the very moment we arrived. At the beginning my friend and I thought it was a kind of joke between them and not something towards us, as you expect that between adults if you have a problem you will come closer and address and explaining the issue, instead of using this kind of passive aggressive behaviour. The shushes carried on for a while until one person of that table shouted “shut up”. At that point, although my husband had just joined for dinner, we decided to leave. I was very upset, as metropolitan was a pub I used to go very often. For that reason I recognised that some of the people who sat on that table were indeed workers of the pub. We meant to leave the place without arguing. However, when we passed close-by them, we heard “it was about time “. According to them it was not time for children to stay there (7 pm at that point) however there is not any rules or policy that says children cannot be there at that time. Besides inside the pub was full of children. For me the whole experience was very inappropriate and unpleasant. Obviously as I said to them it was the first time I was treated like that and the last because I won’t come back there again. And certainly, I will make sure that this experience is well spread and I will retell as many people as possible because to be honest no one deserves to be treated like that and much less by workers of the place.