Oh dear. I tried. I tried really hard to put all of my Leicester Sqaure prejudices aside. Really I did. Instead, I should have stayed at home. Worst nightclub ever.

Ruby Blue is tacky. It’s expensive. The music is so bad we wanted to hide away in a corner. I was with some of the most lovely fun people I know and we all left the party by midnight.

The worst thing is, my friend was holding the party we were at and usually they are brilliant. This one had a black and white masked ball theme. Fabulous. No. It wasn’t. I feel like my brilliant new dress was wasted. I was groped a lot though. Grrr….

Oh, and if the atmosphere, music and general wandering hands isn’t enough, it’ll cost you £7.50 for a large gin and tonic and for some reason they put ice and lemon in my wine.

I don’t know why either.

Leicester Square is a really busy – a place where restaurants come and go. A few days ago I went to one called Ruby Blue- one of the new arrivals on a prime site that the previous occupants seemed to find untenable. All that has changed now and Ruby Blue aims to offer food and entertainment on a scale and in surroundings that are dramatically new. The restaurant’s concept is to take the formality out of eating and replacing it with a friendly, collective experience amidst really funky décor. This depends upon a widely drawn series of dishes that lend themselves to shared eating from a menu that gains inspiration via the cuisines of Greece, Spain, India and China. So although starters, main course and puddings are all listed in the usual way, all the dishes can be shared. This, of course, makes for a diversity of flavours that many find a welcome change from the usual more formally defined courses. Some may call it a form of tapas I would call it ingeneous, most find it extends the tastebuds more subtly than that.
So in the course of one meal you could enjoy, for instance, the flavours of duck spring rolls with shredded cucumber and plum sauce, spiced crab cakes with mango salsa and seared beef skewers with toasted sesame and oyster sauce, skillet roasted Cumberland sausage with mustard mash and pan-fried onions, char grilled red snapper with melted peppers, rocket and tomatoes, and an egg tagliatelle with artichokes, roasted mushrooms and Gorgonzola cream. Instead of one pudding you could combine crème brulee and white chocolate cookie with strawberry jam Swiss roll and birds eye custard trifle, laced with a selection of ice cream and sugar curl wafers.
Ruby Blue has all the customary range of powerful cocktails for your pleasure and with Happy Hour from 5 to 7 pm every day your evening could be off to a very good start. They know how to look after you at Ruby Blue- service with a smile. An average meal would cost you 20.00 pounds,which is not bad