De Fusion, Wolverhampton

Modern open plan night time trendy bar, as are most in the City Centre. Its not a bad layout, the flag & 'oak' floor are actually nice features and the wooden bar is quite ornate. The seating is limited, some sofas and chairs but most of the space is given over to night time vertical drinking. Strange pub to review for me this one, as I spent a lot, and I mean a lot, of time drinking in the former traditional dinking parlour here before it was done up. Yes, it has lost some of that old town centre pub charm, but its also gained a new lease of life, and the toilets of death, where you used to have to drop sharply into the cellar are thankfully long gone. I don't mind evolution, even when its a pub close to my heart as this, and the opened up space is ok. Its a shame the quality of the beer is appalling. Ok.

This is an old Georgian looking building which was previously known as the Exchange Vaults, it is owned by Marston’s Pub Company and has the feel of a city wine bar. The interior is an L shaped room with a large L shaped bar counter, the left of the room has several tables with a projector screen on the back wall, on the right of the entrance are half a dozen large brown leather sofas with low coffee tables, there is a plain fire place in the right hand wall with a very large arty portrait of Che Guevara on the wall above, on the right of this is a massive shelving unit stretching floor to ceiling which is full of around 200 odd wine bottles, in the back right corner behind a sofa, is an interesting feature, it is an ornate wooden mantle piece and impressive mirror which is the only remaining evidence of a large fire place. The décor is modern with paper lanterns hanging from the walls. No ales, but as I walked in the young bar maid said “we have had a problem with our delivery, so we’ve only got Banks’s Mild on.” This was unexpectedly ok despite being keg. Definitely not my kind of place so I wont be going back, more of a night time venue for the pre-clubbers I think so I shall leave it to them.