Avast! A vast new high-end, rum-based cocktail bar has dropped anchor in central London.
It’s called The Rhum Tavern, and has the largest & most diverse rum collection in the city as well as an owner whose work at places like Sketch & Mr Fogg’s means the drinks are as refined as they are intoxicating. It’s a place where ship’s timbers seem to creak beneath your feet as you watch the flicker of candlelight dance against the wall, and feel same the smug satisfaction that the captain must get in the knowledge that, as a Nudge Member, you and up to three lucky crew members are getting 50% off cocktails for a whole month.
You’ll find this vessel of vice just north of Oxford Circus, around the corner from Carmel Fitzrovia. Inside, it’s a galley-style space that stretches deep into the building, and it absolutely nails the atmosphere – you feel like you’re in the hull of an ancient, weathered clipper, with stacked hollow barrels filled with bottles of rum (350, to be precise) lining the walls and a long resin bar cast with gold doubloons and stacked with custom glassware & hollowed-out skulls. (Fake ones, to be clear.)
The menu packs in a fairly concise list of a dozen zero-waste cocktails, including a refreshing Tepache Rum Punch (with fermented pineapple, pineapple rum, and Creole-spiced orange zest rum); the punchily strong Dead Men Tell No Tales (which blends passion fruit, Prosecco, red wine, and a lot of rum); and velvety a rum-based espresso martini made with a cognac & coffee liqueur.
The bar’s not just doing drinks though – there’s also a small robata grill at the end where a chef scorches the likes of grilled salt beef (inspired by the actual provisions on 17th Century ships) as well as crispy chicken skins and baby back ribs. Oh, and if you want to relive the voyage?
You can buy a bottle to take home.
NOTE: The Rum Tavern is open now, Tuesday to Saturday. You can make a booking here.
PERK: Nudge Members +3 are getting 50% off drinks from 26th September – 26th October. Check the Members’ box above for details.
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The Rum Tavern | 48 Margaret St, W1W 8SE
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