Near Green Park station and Hyde Park Corner, just near the Hard Rock Cafe, you might pass the entrance to the Cavalry and Guards Club. How would you visit it if you were not a member? By being a member of a reciprocal club elsewhere in the UK or in many countries of the world. Or look at their website. I shall tell you about that later on. Meanwhile, here is my first hand experience.
I have attended wine club dinners in three different rooms. Most recently in a room on the second floor (which the Americans would call the third). The British English speakers say ground floor, first floor, second floor.
The club's chefs provide a gourmet meal.
Lunch
We had an arrangement for taking our own wines and paying the room hire and corkage as well as the cost of each person's lunch. Clubs for wine and dine events have their ups and downs. Ill health can strike individuals, as well as covid causing many problems, interfering with the size of group meetings permitted, and making the sick or infectious stay away, and the healthy choosing to stay away out of caution. The rail strikes meant that one event had to be postponed.
Why No Mints?
The set menu we were offered included coffee and mints. My husband, who is a wine educator, banned the mints. Why? Because, he said, the flavour of mint would overpower the taste and aroma of the vintage port he was serving at the end of the meal.
If you want to take a peek at the club's grand staircase and paintings online, their website shows you lots of photos.
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