Here is a selection of restaurants with live entertainment across the UK. Call your lifestyle manager for a full list of venues with music or cabaret near you, including full programme details.
Green Park Brasserie Bath
Green Park Brasserie, Green Park Station, Bath BA1 1JB
Housed in the former booking office of a 19th-century railway station, this brasserie serves modern British cooking throughout the day, featuring dishes such as black treacle pork belly, potted shrimps and smoked mackerel fishcakes. For a musical accompaniment, ask us to book a table for dinner between Wednesdays and Saturdays. Green Park’s acts play melodic jazz that doesn’t drown out the conversation, though there’s little chatter while the trios and quartets take centre stage.
Voodoo Rooms
19a West Register Street, Edinburgh EH2 2AA
Edinburgh’s Voodoo Rooms may have modelled itself on the speakeasies of American prohibition, but this thrumming cabaret club has long since blown its cover. It’s been a firm favourite on the Scottish capital’s bar scene since opening in 2007, and the versatile space is equally suited to a romantic meal or cocktails with friends.
Hernan Castro-Vidal, one of our restaurant experts, says: ‘The menu is international with a distinctly Scottish flavour, serving up steaks and burgers alongside pastas and pan-Asian dishes – try the haggis spring rolls if you feel like trying something different.’ The Voodoo ballroom, meanwhile, has an eclectic musical programme and also stages witty burlesque and cabaret acts. Call us to find out what’s on.
The Jam House
3-5 St Paul’s Square, Birmingham B3 1QU
Jools Holland is the musical director of The Jam House and, given the calibre of its performers, he seems to call in a few favours when it comes to putting together the monthly schedule – it's featured acts such as the Three Degrees and Ben E. King. The Jewellery Quarter venue is spread over three floors of a Georgian property. Diners tuck into duck confit or lamb curry from the international menu while watching the action on stage, which Holland frequently takes to with his Rhythm and Blues Orchestra.
Ask your lifestyle manager for a full line-up or to book tickets.
Matt and Phreds
64 Tib Street, Manchester M4 1LW
Music comes first at Matt and Phreds, a Northern Quarter jazz club that showcases home-grown and international talent. The kitchen serves up freshly prepared pizzas, but it’s without doubt the polyrhythms that draw the crowds. This isn’t jazz as background music, so conversations tend to be limited to snatched snippets in-between the feverish playing. ‘Ask us to book an early table so you can enjoy dinner and then give the mercurial bands your full attention,’ Hernan comments.
The Wardrobe
6 St Peter’s Square, Leeds LS9 8AH
The Wardrobe has been a fixture on Leeds’ music scene for more than a decade, with its basement club playing host to a score of big names over the years, including Amy Winehouse and Corinne Bailey Rae. It remains a venue to catch up-and-coming and established artists, though the unpretentious restaurant is garnering fans too. The modern British menu features tender lamb rump and locally made pork sausages. It has its own roster of funk, jazz and soul bands throughout the week.
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