Enjoy Avalon Tavern’s warmth

• You can choose to sit outside, under the umbrellas on the patio, it’s the best place to sit on a sunny afternoon but nights can be chilly. There is also a small garden area where you can sit, very private but cold at night. They will bring you a jiko though, to keep you warm.
• Inside is warmer at night – both temperature and décor, though the dining area is a bit bland, walk further inside into the “living room” with the cushioned chairs, which you can disappear into and the fireplace that roars next to it. Across is the bar, a small bar that only sits four people.
• The music is excellent; jazz music, it’s never too loud or too low. Truth is Avalon doesn’t have much of an ambience but it makes up for this in the mood.
• It’s one of the quietest bars you will go to, even when they are playing music.

Something happened to Avalon Tavern; it hasn’t changed. Whilst things change and people change and trends come and go, Avalon Tavern, on Riverside Drive, refuses to conform. It remains the tavern you have always known.

The Avalon you have always known doesn’t have the best parking; inside barely a dozen cars can fit but outside, behind a hedge there is some space. So yes, parking is a bit of a bummer.

You can choose to sit outside, under the umbrellas on the patio, it’s the best place to sit on a sunny afternoon but nights can be chilly. There is also a small garden area where you can sit, very private but cold at night. They will bring you a jiko though, to keep you warm.

Inside is warmer at night – both temperature and décor, though the dining area is a bit bland, walk further inside into the “living room” with the cushioned chairs, which you can disappear into and the fireplace that roars next to it. Across is the bar, a small bar that only sits four people.

The music is excellent; jazz music, it’s never too loud or too low. Truth is Avalon doesn’t have much of an ambience but it makes up for this in the mood.

It’s one of the quietest bars you will go to, even when they are playing music. Not to say it doesn’t get loud, it does, sometimes, but even in its loudness you can’t compare it to other loud bars. When Avalon gets loud, it only gets brighter.

The crowd at this bar is definitely interesting. I saw the son of a very prominent politician, three MPs and some wheeler-dealer hotshots. You don’t have to guess what kind of a bar this place is, just take a walk to the parking lot; it gleams with top of the range luxury cars.

Recently, when leaving the bar, I found two black monstrous Range Rovers sandwiching my car. My car, looked so intimidated and cowed sitting there between these two heartless juggernauts.

For the first time since I bought my car some years ago, I felt sorry for it. And later, I felt sorry for myself for feeling sorry for a machine.