Endell Street, Covent Garden
The bar itself feels very soothing, it is pretty dark, and there is a piano in the corner so i guess it does live music, it seems like a place to spend a chilled out evening with the girls - or somewhere to go on a date (but be warned, they only sell beer by the half, and its quite expensive at £2.10). They have a restaurant, but also offer bar snacks. They are not the cheapest, £4.50 for chips covered either in bacon and cheddar, or goats chees; £4 for olives with flat bread and humous - but the portions arent stingy and they look very tasty indeed.
Their bloody mary, once you have found it on their very extensive cocktail list comes in at £7.50 - one of the most expensive we have found...
Is it worth the money?
For starters the bar tender actually asked us how we would like it, so we are off to a good start - although personally i like them with a bit of spice, we requested a 'medium'. The good start gets better as we watch her make our cocktail because the vodka is freepoured, not measured out. The presence of salt (not the celery variety) and lime is noted, and it could have done with more worcester sauce...
On tasting it is light, fresh and clean - very drinkable. Their cocktail list specifies that it is made with cucumber vodka - and you can really taste the cucumber, but i am sure they would make it with unflavoured vodka if like me you have an aversion to cucumber!
Despite the lime it is not at all acidic, they haven't over done the ice and apart from the cucumber flavour, you cannot taste the alcohol. It also comes garnished with a cherry tomato and slice of cucumber. Pretty darn good - 8/10
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