Experimental Cocktail Club in Soho

When in Paris, the best way to demonstrate to your lucky companion just how well informed you are involves wandering down une petite cobbled street next to La Rue Montorgueil. 

Next to an otherwise nondescript porte is a small sign congratulating you on finding Paris’s “Experimental Cocktail Club”.

Even before entering, you’ve won.

Knowing about a speakeasy-style cocktail bar that even Yoda (party animal that he is) hasn’t heard of brings a sense of “knowing” that can now be achieved a little closer to home.   

Nestled away in the heart of China Town at 13 Gerrard Street (look for a battered old black door) is London’s Experimental Cocktail Club.

Set over three floors, the exposed brickwork, subtle lighting and some particularly quirky touches make it one of the coolest  bar spaces to open in London for some time.  There’s a clear “ism” of the bar’s Parisian counterpart – perhaps contributed to by the mixologists who crossed the Channel to take up residence in Soho.

Unsurprisingly, being an experimental cocktail club, there’s a lot of fun to be had in exploring and tasting different drinks from the menu – though at around £12 a pop, you may want to go straight for the best one (the Havana).

Yoda has nothing on you. 

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