Chill out in the Living Room, Manchester

Advantages: Great location, food and decor
Disadvantages: Queues!!!!!!

.... Upstairs is the dining room which is fitted with spacious tables as well as smaller, more intimate booths of white leather (there is not an awful lot of room at these and although they are comfortable to sit at I would say that three people is the maximum that could comfortably eat sitting around one of these). The dining room is very light and airy with large skylights and it always makes me imagine that outside is a Caribbean beach rather than smelly old Manchester. It is a very relaxing room in which to eat, calming and cool. On the second floor is the Study which is a private members only club: before you ask I am not a member and have never been here (boo hoo!!) The decor: Cool and contemporary is perhaps the best way of describing the decor of the Living Room. Throughout the whole restaurant there is lots of wood and pale...

nickjj78 26.01.2004 · Read review
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The Living Room - London Heddon Street

Advantages: Great venue, great choice!
Disadvantages: please water the christmas tree!

...Having been reccomended The Living Room as a place to eat I booked my work christmas lunch at The Living Room in Piccadilly (Heddon Street). There was a set menu for pre-bookings which was £35 per head for a three course. We did not have to book in advance just pay £5 per head deposit (which is then taken off the bill). We arrived on time and were seated straight away upstairs. We had a table that was plenty big enough for our party of 8 (although one person couldn\'t come at the last minute). The menu looked fantastic is was hard to decide what to choose. In each of the starter and main options there was two meat, a fish and a vegetarian option. Starters: Butternut squash soup, muchroom ravioli and rissotto, pork roulade or smoked salmon. Mains: Traditional Turkey, 7hr braised beef, Seabass or baked goats cheese. Deserts...

Bex727 18.12.2007 · Read review
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Live and let Live.

Advantages: Online multiplayer, priviledges downloads
Disadvantages: Price a little daunting at first, additional hardware required, PS3 online is free

...What is Xbox Live: Xbox Live is the online service for players of the Xbox and Xbox 360 consoles. Xbox Live Silver is free to all users and gives some limited facilities. With a Silver account you can accumulate a reputation by achieving goals within games. These are own on your Gamercard and allow other users to see how experienced a gamer you are. With a Silver account, you can also download game demos, trailers, and event videos. Some games have the ability to upload performance based stats like lap times etc. to online leaderboards. Xbox Live Gold is a pay-for subscription, approx £35 to £40 pound a year. Gold gives you all the benefits of Silver, however you have access to marketplace items days, and sometimes weeks before the rest. The biggest benefit of purchasing a Gold subscription is that it opens up the full...

Danneey 11.03.2008 · Read review
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Live Review

Advantages: Play with friends all around the world.
Disadvantages: Only lasts for 1 year.

...The live 12 month gold card enables the player to play online for a year. When i first received it i accessed it very quickly and was surprised to see how easily i was able to get online and play with millions of people all around the world. All i needed to do was enter the code and i could start playing. The benefits of going live is mainly playing against people all around the world and making new friends. But if you are a hardcore gamer, this is the perfect place to be as you get to challenge the best around the world and you even get ranked. What's more is that you can even download exclusive things only from the xbox live marketplace where you can't get from anywhere else. Overall: A must get for all xbox 360 owners. It completes the console and makes the xbxo 360 that much better....

silvercut 03.08.2007 · Read review
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Xbox live

Advantages: Online gaming, good value, networking
Disadvantages: Some lag, temptation to spend more money on extras

...Xbox Live is good value compared to some other online subscriptions e.g. World of Warcradt or Everquest as with these you pay everymonth just for one game, whereas with xbox live you only pay once to go online with pretty much all your games. You then get tempted, however, to pay for extra online contect such as extra levels, characters, backdrops for your xbox live dashboard, arcade games etc. etc. So it's never as cheap as it seems! The service on xbox live is good and it's rare to have connection issues so gameplat online tends to be smooth. Occasionally you may shoot at someone only to find they already moved- lag is rare but does happen and can be annoying. The range of games that can be played online is excellent, and isn't just shooting and fighting! Guitar hero plays online brilliantly with options for guitar battles...

Platti 30.07.2008 · Read review
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Our Table Table at Carlisle Bordergate

Advantages: Unique design works well, quality pub food, reasonable prices.
Disadvantages: Close proximity to motorway makes outdoor eating a no no for me, tiny loo's.

...Table offer: "A relaxed atmosphere with a range of tables and spaces to make your experience one to remember. Choose a table with luxurious laid-back sofas for a business meeting, a homely dining room space for a family celebration, or pull up a chair beside one of our burning log fires for a more romantic meal. Whatever the occasion, we have a table to suit." Like Brewers Fayre, Table Table can often be found right next to a Premier Inn, A hotel partner, making it a good meeting place for business. Looking at the map on the Table Table web page, there seems to be a lot of these Pub restaurants right across Britain, from Aberdeen to Plymouth, and Northern Ireland. Nearest restaurants, directions, full menu and more information can be found at www.tabletable.co.uk Free parking is provided to guests at all restaurants...

Rhiana 01.06.2009 · Read review
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Xbox Live - It's another world

Advantages: Superb experience
Disadvantages: Its not free

...keeps me gripped to the online service for hours. Additional content If you have a gold membership, you are able to download game addons such as extra outfits, cars, golf courses etc. Some of this content will be made available to Silver members but Gold members will get this option a good deal quicker. Also, some content may only be made available to Gold members (this content is usually just for features relating to online play). As a Gold member, you can also download exclusive game demos, trailers and movies, most of them now coming in full 1080 HD. It is worth noting that most of this extra content, with the exception of the demos and trailers is not free. You will need to purchase Microsoft Points if you wish to download any add ons. Xbox Live Parties A party is in effect a large voice chat room where you can invite...

craggybuk 11.11.2009 (09.12.2009) · Read review
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Xbox Live is all Gold!

Advantages: the best online community ever!
Disadvantages: the playstation 3 is free for online play

...On purchasing an xbox 360 console you are given a free months xbox live gold membership which can be used once for each xbox live account that is created. However this of course only lasts for a month and after that initial month I was hooked and since then have bought and year's membership and love to play online with my friends over xbox live all the time! What is Gold Membership?: When you create an xbox live account on your xbox 360 there are several different things you have to do. You at first have to input your email address and password in order to verify the account. You then get to choose a gamertag to have - this is your special unique gaming name that you will be recognised as while playing on xbox live - mine is magicman142. The final section on signing up is to choose the type of membership you want: - Silver...

shamis4 07.09.2008 · Read review
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I'd recommend a table at Table Table!

Advantages: Food presentation, good seating and decor, portion size, quality of food, vegetarian dishes
Disadvantages: Temperature of the restaurant, long waiting time, extras that weren't stated

...were the one that chose to sit there if you didn't like it - there's no one to blame! Seating So, the six of us looked around the restaurant, that was oddly quiet for the evening, and eventually decided on a lovely booth that was pretty secluded, but not too lonely, and took our seats. Although it appeared to be quiet, I think it is simply because of how huge the restaurant was. Trust me, the amount of tables is enormous! But despite this, there's a great amount of space between the tables, and are several secluded, larger tables for family or social gatherings. I remember from a previous evening at this restaurant over a year ago, we even got a table that was practically in its own room! I loved this, because we were still able to see other parts of the restaurant, so it wasn't too secluded, but it did make the meal seem more...

emmyjepson 11.07.2009 (17.07.2009) · Read review
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TESCO HEALTHY LIVING RAISIN & APPLE FRUIT BAR

Advantages: tasty, snacksized, low fat
Disadvantages: not big enough

...Tesco Healthy Living Raisin & Apple Fruit Bars are available from, you guessed it, Tesco. Tesco have a wide range of goods that they label as Healthy Living. They cost 99p for a box of 6 and are available in Raisin & Fruit flavour also. Each bar is individually wrapped. I am not going to go into great detail describing the packaging as some Ciao'rs tend to tell you off, other than to say that the box is blue and white and branded with the Healthy Living logo to identify it. This has a little man in red jumping up and down. Each bar has the same logo on it and a picture of the bars. The sell-by date on mine is 30/01/2007, so they obviously keep for a long time. APPEARANCE ++++++++++++ The bar is about four inches long. It has raisins and apple in the middle, which is surrounded by pastry, it is flat on the bottom...

kismet 10.04.2006 · Read review
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