Akbar reviews
Great staff, beautiful crowd, excellent service, blissful cocktails - an overall favourite for me and my friends.
by asam, 21 Oct 2007Pretty noisy and seems stuffed with very young office workers. Nice cocktails but not the best venue for drinks in Soho by a long way.
by capital girl "top london reviewer" (59 reviews), 14 Aug 2005Quite busy when I visited (Friday) but a fairly cool bar. The cove areas are a nice touch.
by layla (3 reviews), 26 Jul 2005Not a bad choice for cocktails with a few friends in Soho.
They have a dislike for trainers on the door, and "but these are DKNY's latest and you can't even buy them here yet" won't get you anywhere. Once you're past that, the service is friendly, cocktails are good, nice design, etc. If you plan it in advance and have a large enough group (I'm guessing 8 or more) - reserve one of the alcoves: cave-like comfy areas away from the crowds.
Prices are perhaps on the steep side, but as I said, they're fairly good - however, several friends have moaned about the automatic addition of a service charge for drinks ordered at the bar.
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