Worship Street Whistling Shop (Shoreditch)

• The Whistling shop is not like any ordinary venue
• You cannot realise how large and spacious it is in the basement
• The cocktails are especially good and the overall atmosphere relaxed and friendly
• As soon as I knew I was heading to London I started to compile a list of places that no matter what I MUST VISIT
• I had no idea what they were talking about but a short search later showed that this great new bar has just opened its doors to massive acclaim for their cocktails
• Had you not known what you were looking for you would have passed straight by
• Let alone realised there is one of the worlds best bars hidden in the basement
• Not to mention the fact that it sits in an area that really has nothing else going on in it during the weekend (situated as it is in the Moorgate Liverpool Street banker Monday to Friday enclave)
• The cellar room is darkly Dickensian
• In the back is a windowed laboratory worthy of a Jekyll and Hyde fantasy crammed with equipment modern and antiquated
• Fantastic drinking and perfectly executed flavours with an alcohol content to blow your socks off
• This cocktail was a very easy drinker and had a nice rounded sweet edge that worked well
• This was one of my favourites and any beer lover who doesn't mind a flirtini or two may be lead down a very dark path with this concoction
• Straight off the bat you know that mix is going to be lethal with a Whistling twist
• The first mouthful was a right hook to the jaw but as the flavours mixed together it became one of the most elegantly balanced cocktails I have ever had
• When I once again live in London this is going to be the bar where I will drag friends along and watch their faces as they too stumble upon one of London's true secret basement bars
• The only thing going for it was the ambience
• The original plan was to go to the Whistling Shop before that
• Walking inside made you feel like you were entering some tucked away
• We told the guy who greeted us that we were on a tight schedule and needed to get a drink as quickly as possible
• T miss out on those reservations and were fully behind getting us served and out again as quickly as possible
• Apparently experimenting with different flavour combinations in their laboratory
• Probably because it was so unlike any other drink we&rsquo
• The gin fizz was nice (and very quaffable once we realised we&rsquo
• D gone past our imposed 10 minute time limit) but it was just a gin fizz
• The downside is that the drinks are quite pricey
• I assume this is because it feels like it&rsquo
• Even though Shoreditch is only a few streets away

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