Qype: Buffalo Bar in Cardiff

Cardiff - Pubs & Bars - Bars

For a great overview of Buffalo Bar, I refer you to Seren01's review. She sums it up really well. I will just add a couple of personal thoughts and observations:
* Secret garden - beautiful on a summer's evening and a great place to enjoy drinks al fresco with a group of mates or just you and your 'cariad'. Nice and quiet early on so you can get a seat and a bite to eat without too much hassle, the garden gets busy late at night and buzzes with great atmosphere.
* Cocktails - best in Cardiff in my opinion. They are £5 a pop, but the quality is excellent. The bar staff know their stuff and the end product is well worth the wait. The Bloody Mary is a revelation and the Mojito's are classic (see review of Milgi's for my concern on the nearing extinction of the classic version of the Mojito!)
* Upstairs – had a couple of fantastic nights dancing away up here (you can hire it for private functions, by the way). It’s intimate and the vibe is really good. Music is varied and diverse and DJs are funky and cool. Toilets flooded once though so girls with sandals were scuppered!
* Downstairs – décor is fantastically eclectic and the furniture is all miss-matched but blends really well. Even the salt and pepper pots are different on each table. It’s bloody freezing in the winter though. They need to turn the air-con off when the bar isn’t bursting at the seams because it can get quite unbearable between 5 and 8pm, especially if people are popping out for a ciggie and propping open the doors!
* Food – tasty stuff and reasonably priced. It arrives quite quickly too.

All in all, I really like this place.

Check out my review of Buffalo Bar - I am Tommowinnie - on Qype