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Playboy Club opens in London with a vintage feel

bunny girl playboy londonHot Dinners braved the placard-wielding demonstrators to try out The Playboy Club in Mayfair last night. Truth be told, once inside, you'd see more flesh on any episode of The Only Way Is Essex than inside the latest addition to Hugh Hefner's empire.

With more women than men in attendance at the press opening, the look was very Mad Men and the Bunnies themselves had a certain retro vibe going on.

Our main port of call was Salvatore's, the new bar by renowned mixologist Savatore Calabrese who first invented the Breakfast Martini. He's brought along some of the best bottles in his personal collection to make the London Playboy bar totally unique. But although there's wine by the glass at £8, you venture into the Vintage section of the bar menu at your peril. That way lies 18th century Napoleonic brandy at £4000 a snifter (no, that's not a typo) and the most expensive cocktail on offer is a Sazerac at £2000 of your English pounds, made from a Sazerac de Forge et fils from 1805.

If the quality of the canapes is anything to go by, then the bar's going to do well. Bar food is by Iron Chef winner Judy Joo - and includes The Playboy Club sandwich at £11.50 and Wagyu Sliders for £18 as well as buffalo wings and American shrimp cocktail.

Upstairs, there's a smallish restaurant (and private dining room) alongside a gaming room offering such delights as The Playboy Burger - which looked massive - and Wagyu strip steak.

The Playboy Club, 14 Old Park Lane, London W1K 1ND

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