Igloo Cocktail - Liverpool

A fancy new cocktail place in the pleasant environs of St. Peter 's Square, Igloo is exactly the sort of place I wish there were more of in Liverpool city centre a cool, reasonably priced hangout. Serving a range of classic cocktails and some house specials (including the trailer park princess which consists of apple sauce and two types of rum served in a jam jar all on two for one Sunday to Thursday and before 10:30pm of a weekend (which means £6 for two along with draught and bottled beers and premium spirits sold by the shot and by the bottle (although who is actually going to pay £100 to have a bottle of Grey Goose brought to their table? The set up inside is sleek and contemporary with a regency esque edge (leather booths and pink chandeliers . The bar staff are friendly enough but understandably spend much of their time dealing with the higher rolling customers. I can 't blame them. If someone is going to pay £245 for a bottle of Cristal champagne then what sort of tip will they leave?

I don 't know whether my mind is just the most painfully simple to manipulate or if they 'd actually lowered the heating inside but walking into Igloo chilled me to the core. This bar (formerly Chaya (formerly Tea Factory (formerly an organ-harvesting clinic *citation needed* certainly boasts the right look. As dark as an Eskimo 's Christmas and interspersed with eerie blue lights that make you feel like you 're trapped under ice and being shone on by emergency services, you can tell the designers put great effort into the decor. It 's just a shame the place is full of arseholes. The customers are a dovetailing mix of amateur WAG-impersonator fans and thugs. When I asked for two different cocktails off the 2 for 1 menu I was told by the barman that 'you can 't mix and match them '. I 'm not a club-owner and never will be, but on a quiet afternoon I can think of no other reason for this than bone idleness on their behalf. What would the brave Inuits think of that?

Arrogance is an offence that 's hard to take. There is little the recipient can do in return. For the management of Igloo Liverpool, there is no excuse for arrogance. Saturday night, 8pm, 20th April, sat at the bar with my friend nattering away, and after 12 cocktails, around 10:30, a chap came an asked, Can I take your seat away please? We replied No, still sitting on it. He then brought someone else with him and wanted to take the chairs away which we were still sitting on at the time. We gave them up, and left. Which ever way you look at that, 2 customers, around £60-£80 spend, then for the staff, with the management 's blessing, to take away their chairs when they were still sitting on at the time for two hours seem bizzar. Call me old fashion, Igloo Liverpool thinks they are doing their customers a favour to open shop. If you love them, then allow them the privilege to believe they do you favours and take your money. For me, I choose places where customers are well received, every time. If you haven 't been, there is the odd staff who rise above the arrogance. Do you feel lucky?