Nightjar

Speakeasy Bar in London

Voted one of the world’s best bars in various publications, Nightjar is a bit of a hidden secret (at least location wise!) in London.

Located near Old Street, you could easily walk past Nightjar so keep your eyes open. It is a gorgeous speakeasy bar in London offering a relaxed but quite special atmosphere with live jazz playing from 9.30pm (extra £5 pp for on most days).

The Cocktail Menu

The cocktail menu is split into different sections – pre-prohibition, prohibition and post war and signature cocktails. Nightjar have clearly taken a lot of time in care in crafting these cocktails and some of the ingredients are a bit out there e.g. mozzarella!

We went for the YORKSHIRE PUNCH, a sharing cocktail served in an owl pitcher. It arrives with dry ice coming out of the beak which is pretty awesome! At only £10pp, it actually is one of the best value cocktails on the menu as there is enough for two teacups each. Also,  presentationally it looks fantastic.

It contained gin mare, st germain elderflower liqueur, giffard seasonal berry liqueurs, apple and rhubarb juice, fresh squeezed lemon, yorkshire tea bee pollen syrup and ginger beer. All really rather refreshing.

speakeasy bar in London

We also tried the DIKI DIKI elephant gin, turkish apple infusion, swedish punsch, fresh squeezed pink grapefruit fresh, squeezed lime, Scandinavian crusta.

The FROZEN FJORD 12 reyka vodka, nigella seeds infusion, aperol, lingonberry jam, fresh squeezed mandarin & grapefruit blinq blossom was delicious. Both cocktails were £12 each and so beautifully presented!

speakeasy bar in London

The service is good (and deserves the 12.5% charge they add to the bill). Although our second round of cocktails took around 20 minutes to arrive, a member of staff  acknowledged this and offered a complimentary teacup of punch.

I love this speakeasy bar in London and highly recommend it.

East London Girl: Nightjar

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