bringing drinks to life

You know how it is when new bars open up and you know who’s behind them and you read a few reviews and you think is this place a gimmick or a great bar? Well that’s the category that we slotted Circus in Covent Garden into. I mean obviously any place that Lucy Besant is involved in is likely to be pretty good, and with Henry and the boys from Worldwide Cocktail Club setting up the bar and doing the drinks list, not to mention Dick Bradsell heading up the bar team, it wasn’t ever likely to be bad. But there are plenty of places that have themed themselves and have ended up being the sort of place you visit once but never have the urge to return to.

 

 

I can safely say that Circus isn’t one of those!

 

 

When you hear the name Circus and read that it is an ‘innovative bar, restaurant and entertainment experience’ and that the entertainment will consist of ‘surprising and intriguing acts within a bar and restaurant setting’ cue thoughts of rubber nosed clowns and ringmasters with annoyingly loud voices… actually scrap that and think Cirque du Soleil instead! Not to mention the fact that the entertainment is definitely a big part of the offering here, but it is by no means the only defining attribute.