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Mnky Hse lies behind a discreet entrance at Dover street and is home to a Latin american bar and restaurant like no other. It offers the perfect place to spend your evening with dim lighting, low-seating and stylish accessories. The atmosphere creates a sexual, edgy glow to the room with award winning mixlogists on hand to conjure you up the right cocktail be it classical or experimental to fit your evening. The glamorous bar sets itself on the bottom floor with the restaurant just next door making it the perfect place for after dinner drinks or to dance the way into early hours of the morning.
Bar manager Javier Ecribano makes sure that all his Mnky Hse cocktails are presented with a South-American twist even with the menu having its own Pisco and Mezcal sections. If you’re looking for something easy to drink the Jasmine Pisco-Sour slides down with a nice texture and comes served with love-heart embellished foam and a marshmallow. The house special Mnky Business is a known favourite based on an old fashion but using Perivian-Rum. Definitely one to warm the insides but not in the way you think as its plunged into a -80 degrees pot, infused with smoke and poured over carved ice to be served in a Erlenmeyer flask.
With the laid-back ambient house music and the drinks list with a taste for everyone Mnky Hse offers you the full experience of drinks , dinner and escapism all under the same roof.
Dress Code: Smart Casual
Area: Mayfair
Address: 10 Dover St, Mayfair, London W1S 4LQ
Website: http://mnky-hse.com/
September 14, 2018 Capital A List - Celebrity club news
Aldgate is made up a number of bars but only few stand out making them the top recommended high-end bars to visit in London. Jin Bo Law Skybar being one. The bar’s name originates from an ancient golden wine cup immortalised in the Book of Northern Qi. It locates itself in the busy ends of Aldgate on the 14th floor of Dorset City Hotel overlooking what can only be told as one of London’s most iconic skyline views whilst sipping on cocktails you never even imagined to exist. Being one of London’s newest rooftop bars its climbed its way to the top through its cleverly hand-crafted cocktails, remarkable customer service and prime location.
The interior is Asian inspired with a black and yellow theme and consists of marble floors, bronze surfaces and a giant geometric pineapple dominating over the heads of people sat at the bar. Jin Bo Law Skybar attracts many different crowds making it one of the reasons for being so popular whether you’re looking for a after work drink, a place to celebrate your birthday in style or a romantic evening for you and your loved one. The bar has inside and outside seating separated by big glass windows (able to be opened or closed depending on season) making the view just as iconic wherever you choose to sit. The terrace offering the perfect place to soak in the summer sun or a night time winter view encased in the warmth of the inside. The perspective of the views adds to the reason on why their so spectacular with the Gherkin and Walkie-Talkie seeming in hands reach whilst London bridge placing itself on the map as if built in a model village.
The cocktail menu is inspired by the Asian theme by taking your normal cocktail menu and adding their own ‘Jin B Law’ twist. ‘Dragon air’ holds their own creative ingredients replacing very Western gin with Eastern Baijiu (a Chinese spirit) originally inspired from the ‘White Negroni’. Changing this around adds the more exotic flavours of pear and chocolate together. Another highly recommended home-made concoction is ‘Fizz from a rose.’ This is made up of kaffir lime, rose liquor, egg white and ginger beer enhancing not your experience not only though the taste but textures as well. Lastly a must-try on the menu is the ‘Butterfly Punch’ which is a traditional vodka based punch added in with their own Jasmine tea twist. Or perhaps you fancy enjoy your creamy cocktails? Milk and Cookies is one of Jin Bo Laws signature drinks combining sake, white chocolate, rice krispies, vanilla milk and bitters, presented in a glass milk carton and finished off with a cookie taking you back to those childhood days making bedtime that little bit easier.
With several sky bars in London there’s only few that separate themselves from the rest. With its unique cocktail menu and breathtaking views there isn’t much more to ask for. It’s new, modern and stylish the; perfect hotspot to visit in London.
Dress Code: Smart Casual
Area: City of London
Address: 14th floor, 9, Dorsett City, Aldgate High St, London EC3N 1AH
Website: https://www.jinbolaw.co.uk/
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Barts is a very discreet bar, tucked behind an inconspicuous black door of an apartment block on Sloane Avenue. This speakeasy will take you back in time to the prohibition era of 1920s America, you’ll feel so immersed to the point that you’ll feel as if you have stepped into a scene from Gatsby or Bugsy Malone.
Although small, its comic strip wall paper, mismatched furniture, taxidermy and warm lighting create a cosy and intimate space full of character. Besides this the skilful bartenders perform their skills and give you their unrequited attention in classic dress from the period.
Barts is one of the Inception Group’s venues which also includes Maggie’s, Bungatini, Bunga Bunga, Cahoots and Mr Frogg’s. These bars are dotted all over London from Chelsea to Knightsbridge to Pimlico and Marylebone; all part of the same thread, but full off individuality, giving you a range of different places to visit after your first night in Barts.
If you want to enjoy a couple of cocktails in a different environment then this is the place for you, it’s perfect all year round; besides it’s indoor area there is also a unique secret garden which is perfect for summer as it has a seasonal menu. As well as this there are a range of different drinks to choose from its consistent comic book menu known for its ‘finest yet most illicit liquors and alcoholic concoctions know to the loving lawbreakers of London’.
Specialities include their Perique Tobacco Cocktail’s such as the ‘Smoke Screen’ which is served in a Dewar’s Signature box and made with Perique Tobacco Liqueur, Dewar’s 18 Y.O. Scotch Whisky, Angostura bitters and orange and sugar.
If you’d like to enjoy a range of small bites alongside your drinks there is small sushi menu to indulge into in a tapas esc style, or for something more filling maybe try the highly recommended Jenga Jenga chips and the Pulled Pork Buns. If at the weekend you’d like to splash out why not attend a ‘Criminal’s Afternoon Tea’ held on Saturday’s at 2pm consisting of three different options starting from £35pp which include teapots full of quirky alcoholic mixtures.
They also hold a variation of different events from daily cocktail masterclasses to ‘Mountgay Moonshine Sundays’ and even a ‘Boarding School’ evening held every Monday consisting of having a drink while playing some old school games such as Cluedo and Monopoly. If you also enjoy live entertainment then this is the place for you as they hold one off gigs alongside weekly performance’s by ‘The Piano Man’, Michael Moore. So if you fancy a journey back in time full of old school cocktails and funky entertainment why not knock on their door!
Dress Code: Smart Casual
Area: Chelsea
Address: Chelsea Cloisters, Sloane Ave, Chelsea, London SW3 3DW
Website: https://barts-london.com/