I write this, sat, eating my pauper's breakfast of 2 poached eggs on a single slice of toast. One of
I write this, sat, eating my pauper's breakfast of 2 poached eggs on a single slice of toast. One of the many mean and miserly breakfast options available for those who stay at The High Road House Hotel at a cost of £325 per night. Other generous options include a single croissant, a half English or a bowl of porridge. Admittedly, I am not a member of the Soho House group (actual members may receive the full English instead), but I am a fee paying guest, and I am surprised at how little is available for the money. One benefit is that breakfast is available until 12pm. This is essential as you will not have gotten to sleep until at least 1:30am the evening before, when they turn the music down in the bar downstairs. Or alternatively, you may be woken early by the slightest movement of guests in the rooms upstairs or in the corridor, which is as easily audible in your room as the low-fi beats emanating from below. Service is fine, but not great, with the sort of overly pally behaviour you may expect from 'trendy' establishments. The room however is nice, well sized, and nicely decorated, with lots of nice Cow Shed cosmetics in the bathroom. Those that we don't use during our stay I may end up pouring down the toilet, just to feel like I've reached some sort of economic parity with the hotel considering the breakfast offering. Overall, I will never come back, nor will I visit another Soho House Group hotel. I'm not entirely certain why people pay money on top of subscriptions for the experience. Possibly, because treated crap is cool? I'm not image conscious enough to hang around and find out.