12 Old Compton Street, W1D 4TQ
www.lab-townhouse.com.
020 7437 7820
Thank Heaven for Lab. It is a cocktail connoisseur's
Their Bloody Mary is £6.80, and when i order it i am asked how i would like it, the bar tender tastes it as he is making it (Hurray!!) and when i am served the drink, he asks me to taste it and see if it is ok. Everyone else take note - that is how you serve someone a bloody mary.
The drink itself is very good. The glass (which we felt should have been a bit bigger and sturdier by the way) had coursely ground salt, pepper and chilli flakes around the rim, however despite the barman shaking the drink (with ice one assumes) there was definitely an overload of ice in the (small) glass. There didn't seem to be any horseradish but the flavours were done so well that it didn't seem to matter, and at last i had found a place that didnt automatically stick a wedge of lemon in your bloody mary. It did have a splash of sours (fresh lemon and lime juice) but this was balanced out with the general well rounded taste of the drink. It tasted smooth, not acidic, and very drinkable. 8.5/10
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