London is one of the best cities if a traveler is looking for nightlife. Once the sun sets behind Hyde Park, the city comes to life with luminescent signs, live music, and cocktail bars. While some think cocktails and sunshine is the best combination, the Looking Glass Cocktail Club believes otherwise. The London cocktail bar offers a sense of release after a long week by drinking one of their signature cocktails surrounded by contemporary urban décor.

The Looking Glass Cocktail Club is based in the artistic region of Shoreditch in East London. Ten years ago, the bar opened its doors, fusing the unique combination of cocktails and performance art.  While most bars serve well-known cocktails, such as a long island iced tea, the Looking Glass Cocktail Club creates signature cocktails using skilled mixology techniques and unique ingredients.

The Signature Cocktails

One of the cocktails on the menu is Managua Dreams which slides down the throat with ease. The Flor de Cana 12 rum and sweet coconut flavours create a sweet and tangy drink for a guest to enjoy. Another cocktail a guest can try is Mrs. Alexander which combines Martell VS cognac, dark chocolate, chilli, banana, and clarified milk. While this may sound strange, the banana flavour gives the drink a fruity taste, which compliments the creamy clarified milk. Other cocktails on the menu include Black Forest Bandit, a favourite among guests, and the floral chamomile El Jefe. The Looking Glass Cocktail Club is primarily a bar, but it does serve food such as white anchovies on sourdough toast and confit Manchego cheese with marinated cherry tomatoes.

The Hipster Style Interior Decor

While one might pass the Looking Glass Cocktail Club without a second thought during the day, the bar is hard to miss at night with its enchanting luminescent sign beckoning future guests inside. The cocktail bar is positioned at the top of quiet Hackney Road, further away from the strip of other bars and nightclubs in Shoreditch.  As guests enter the building, they will find a relaxing bar designed for casual cocktails and after-work drinks with friends and colleagues. The room is styled in a rustic contemporary décor with feature walls of exposed brick, decadent plush sofas, and accents of greenery throughout the room.

At the back of the room is a long wooden bar sporting many cabinets full of spirits that the talented mixologists use to create their cocktails. Yet the interior’s most distinct feature is the giant looking glass mirror door which the bar is named after. A guest may wander through the looking glass door and, like Alice in Wonderland, be transported into a fantasy land of wonder. The cocktail bar has its own secret speakeasy nightclub hidden from the outside world, playing house music until the early hours of the morning and challenging the powers of perception with rare performance art.

The London cocktail bar, the Looking Glass Cocktail Club, offers a twisting and contrastive evening. The Alice in Wonderland eques cocktail bar may seem like a trendy and tranquil place to meet friends for an evening drink. However, after twilight hours, the bar turns into a secret speakeasy nightclub where a guest can dance the night way to debaucherous live music.