It also skips having an obvious bar - there is a coffee shop on the ground floor with a door opening to Mayor Street, with the main hotel entrance being on the new street (this seems to be on the path of the original Wapping Street, as opposed to the adjacent New Wapping Street, so possibly called that); and this doesn't serve alcohol. Its not even open yet, actually (as I write this).
The bar and restaurant are instead in the basement - although they have extensive windows to an atrium which comes down to that level. They are very much open to the public - promotional material advertising it as a lunch venue was sent in to my work place - but not many people seem to have noticed that yet.
The bar/restaurant has some design elements that suggest the first class dining room of a 1930s ocean liner, and interestingly for a new hotel bar, actually has a wider range of drinks from different suppliers, all macro but not a Heineken monoculture like so many others.
I had a pint of the Open Gate Citra - which I haven't see in some time, but which tastes the same as I remembered it; and a burger - which was good, while being more of the old type of pub burger, with a much thicker burger than would be common now.
I may be back here soon enough, as somewhere near work where getting a seat on a Friday lunchtime doesn't require booking is always useful. I am in the process of (hopefully) changing jobs, though!
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