We hate the LKF night life and standing up for half the night with a glass in hand isn't our style. So we were a bit hesitant when trying out Bourbon for dinner.
Me and the wife were in the mood for some substantial food after a cruel workout at the gym, so went to Soho casting about for a filling meal.
Decided on Bourbon after a little bit of hemming and hawing (because there aren't too many reviews here on it) and were quite happy with what we found.
Bonus marks for having a completely separate dining room farther inside past the bar - the staff was rather surprised that we wanted to sit in there but there were no loud voices, smoke from the outside and we were in between the kitchen and the bar so getting someone's attention wasn't that hard.
There's happy hour til 9pm, but the wife felt that the prosecco she ordered wasn't really very good. So maybe you might not want to bother with that
Bourbon gives out complimentary muffins but you might want to just eat the nice crusty tops with the spread they also give and give the rest of the muffin a pass. For the management: the muffins were served in metal containers which are (1) too hot to handle when just served and (2) if you let them cool off, all the moisture in the muffins is trapped so they became a little soggy.
We ordered the crab cake, Beef sandwich[es] and the baby back ribs. All were signature items I think.
The ribs were clearly the star turn of the meal. Five rich, fatty, fall-off-the-bone tender bits of intercostal muscle over bone, everything you might want in a rib meal. There were five of them, which would be good enough alone for a small eater. The crab cake was ok, and the insanely huge beef sandwich order (there were five slider-sized buns - it's something I think we could have been warned about beforehand) was more pub food than anything.
The revelation was the chilli sauce that we were given in a separate bottle. Not like the dark, vinegary stuff you get in the Cantonese restaurants, but something more like what you get in Singapore, with a slightly stronger hint of tomato.
While they did ok with everything that we ordered, we'd go back for two reasons:
1. Quiet dining area where you can hear yourself think (we were the only ones there the entire night) and not focus on balancing on a high stool
2. Very good ribs.