Unique Bars & Pubs Hidden London Bars Callooh CallayCallooh Callay - Shoreditch
Inspired by a Lewis Carroll poem (Jabberwocky), the theme is 'out-there', in a Mad-Hatter, tea party kind of way. 
With an award winning mixologist and top-flight chef providing the food and drink, this is no amateur offering. Despite the Lewis Carroll influences, it's the Narnia-style wardrobe/door leading to the second room that will delight even the most cynical and seen-it-all-before visitor.
The food is rather niftily packaged as mini-mains, to allow you to mix and match - Tapas style. It's always a pleasant surprise when it feels like the management have turned the tables and imagined what the punters might want from an evening. The restaurant and hotel background I had, always made a point of the staff sampling the experience from the other side of the table. It usually pays dividends.
The cocktails are imaginative, priced fairly and receive much focus, so it's not an every night establishment - but useful if you have friends up in town. It's reminiscent of the kind of place which springs up in Manhattan, on the trendy fringe areas like Meatpacking District or Armory Square. Which is, I suppose, what Shoreditch is now. No one would touch it with a barge-pole when I lived in Hackney, so it's come a long way. The boy done good.
65 Rivington Street, Shoreditch, EC2A 3AY.
Old Street or Liverpool Street Tube.
Call: 020 7739 4781
