Accessed through a discreet entrance on St John’s Square, the lounge within is a sumptuous and intriguing place. With an open fire crackling in the grate and a bartender fixing your favourite drink it feels like private residence of a most beloved, eccentric and indulgent aunt – we call her Wilhelmina.
The Cocktail Lounge at Zetter Townhouse
Bar in Clerkenwell
9 / 10 from 1 review
Address
The Zetter Townhouse
49 - 50 St Johns Square
Clerkenwell
London
EC1V 4JJ
The Zetter Townhouse
49 - 50 St Johns Square
Clerkenwell
London
EC1V 4JJ
Telephone
020 7324 4545
020 7324 4545
Region
Clerkenwell
Clerkenwell
Category
Bars
Bars
Opening Times
Monday
Opens 07:00 - Closes 00:00
Tuesday
Opens 07:00 - Closes 00:00
Wednesday
Opens 07:00 - Closes 00:00
Thursday
Opens 07:00 - Closes 01:00
Friday
Opens 07:00 - Closes 01:00
Saturday
Opens 07:00 - Closes 01:00
Sunday
Opens 07:00 - Closes 22:00
The Cocktail Lounge at Zetter Townhouse Picture Gallery
All In London Review
A well balanced bar that is exactly the kind of place you want to leisurely sip cocktails
Dark, cosy and deceptively large, the bar throws together taxidermy, decadent upholstery and fine art with irreverent flourishes of fun. This is no sleepy, snooty hotel bar but a cocktail lounge that offers more than enough value for your money, in terms of drinks, décor and decadence.
We drink the Koln Martini, Sazerac and perfect Manhattan and there are no complaints. Mixed behind the apothecary bar, the drinks arrive in no time at all and each is as balanced as you would expect from a Tony C. bar. House cocktails cost £9.50 and off menu drinks begin at £10.50, and you should expect to pay a 12.5% service charge.
What we pay is well worth drinking in a place that feels like a hot mess of a salubrious drinking den tucked away on the western wing of some exclusive old town house. The drinks, the service and the atmosphere are impeccable – in fact, the only sour note was passing the hotel’s games room and ping-pong table on the way to the basement bathrooms and leaving without hitting a ball. But then you can’t have everything…
Image: Jefferson Smith
Reviewed by T.A.O
Published on Jan 22, 2015
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The bar at the Zetter Town House plants one foot in the future whilst simultaneously leaving one lagging in the past. The look is all traditional fireside, leather armchair gents club with a healthy dose of modern art and irony lumped in for good measure. It works – and so do the delicate cocktails. Not cheap but certainly worth shelling out.
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