The bar and the dining room at The Briers are one open-plan space rather than two. A licensed bar with stools along one side, tables and chairs along the other, and a serving counter at the far end.
It means the group stays together. Nobody is stuck in a dining room while the conversation is happening somewhere else, and the room works as easily for a long lunch as it does at eleven at night.
Yours entirely on a whole-house weekend.