The Shoreditch Review

Shoreditch is a nice place to unwind and sample some delectable cocktails. Our latest trip bought us to the not-so-originally-named The Shoreditch venue. From the outside the bar looks, well, ... pretty tacky to be honest with all the bright blue lights. Really the front of this bar would fit in just perfect in Soho.
Inside the decoration is veritable mix and match. You can find fake African statuettes, a ship's figurehead, heck, there is even a dead tiger on the ceiling. First I thought I was already drunk and mistaking the floor with the ceiling (again) but nope, there was a real tiger skin bolted to the ceiling.
The theme seems to be exotic, but more in the sense of cheap exotic fruit juice that you buy at those Turkish shops than real outlandish and beautiful art. Shoreditch art students failing again. Have I also mentioned there's a dead tiger pelt on the ceiling? Inevitably staring right through your soul.
For some reason there's also packets of ice on the floor. Go figure.

Oh yeh, the drinks. The Shoreditch is so far the only cocktail bar where we've managed to uncontrollably giggle and roar after reading the menu. We might as well have been reading the Joker's evil cocktail menu. If you ever want to waste your monthly wages people, just go to this bar and order yourself a Tiger's Head. Cost? 800£. It's ok though, because you can share it with 10 ... Seriously though, for that price I expect to bathe in my drinks, poured by a harem of virgins dressed as princess Leila (You know which dress, truly you know) while being read, ... no, cantated, poetry from William Blake.
Anyway we decided NOT to take the Tiger's Head and instead opted for a Planet of the Apes and a Bees Knees. As outrageous as some prices were, we got the Happy Hour deal and it was only 10£ for those two. For that price we found the drinks very agreeable and acceptable.
The Planet of the Apes is a cocktail made from rum and banana juice. A pretty well balanced cocktail with the taste of rum right there in the front seat of your taste buds. It also came in an awesome porcelain barrel mug. I've never seen Subject T look so happy except maybe for that one time he had dozed off on the tube, dreaming of punching David Cameron square in the mouth.

The Bees Knees is an excellent summer drink. The glass was frosty it almost came straight from the ice-age.  Although the menu says it's a cocktail of gin and honey, there's a very pleasant taste of lime all throughout the drink. Turning this into a marvellous refreshing and smooth drink.

We had a great time in The Shoreditch, apart from mocking the drinks and furniture we leaned back enjoying our cocktails. Meanwhile nodding to the beats of some smooth reggae. Unfortunately we were told that the princess is in another bar



Subject Bourbon signing off