Cool London Cocktail Bar Was So Dam Good

My search for cool London cocktail bars with an even cooler happy hour was I’m glad to say successful yesterday evening. I headed to Covent Garden an area full of fancy looking bars offering happy hours, but I was looking for one bar in particular to start the evening off, the Jewel Covent Garden.

I have been to the Jewel Piccadilly Circus on numerous occasions, which is a bar that has never let me down, apart from when the foreign wannabe model waitresses sometimes can’t pick up my Scottish accent, but hell that’s a minor gripe. So I headed to Jewel Covent Garden with high expectations that it would be a a cool London cocktail bar.

I arrived at Covent Garden station on time at 4.45pm, as usual my sense of direction was all messed up, I was hoping my estranged wife who I was meeting would know the way, but no such luck. Fortunately an enterprising homeless person, was handing out free maps and offering directions for a small donation, which was good because I wanted to be there at 5pm, because the cheap cocktails finished at 8pm.

Thanks to homeless guy and the best pound I had spent all day, I found the cool London cocktail bar that I was in search of. I must say the Jewel is a fantastic looking bar, with a fairly relaxed atmosphere, well it is when it isn’t too busy.

The best thing of all the Jewel offered proper happy hour prices, which were £3.95 for normal cocktails and £4.50 for champagne cocktails and every cocktail on the menu was available, unlike some cheap second rate bars that only offer a selection from their menu. Now this was my kind of place, the only thing, which I wasn’t too happy about was that my two favourite cocktails the Pina Colada and Long Island Ice Tea, nowhere  to be seen, that was a major disappointment.

Even though I wasn’t too happy about the cocktail menu, I thought why not get warmed up at the Jewel and then head over to the nearby Los Locos Bar, which also had an interesting happy hour.

After much deliberation and 3 hours later I had 8 cocktails, all of which tasted good and were mixed well, and made by someone that knew what they were doing. I must add that they were not watered down drinks, because by the time I got home I felt like I had a few too many. I also had a couple of beers, which were for the sole purpose of washing down the nibbles, which were herb marinated olives, pitta bread with dips and a bruschetta. One thing that really surprised the hell out of me about the Jewel was the price of  the nibbles, they were so cheap for such a fancy looking bar.

I can honestly say that the Jewel is a London cocktail bar that is pure quality and I will be back again sometime in the near future. Even though I wasn’t too impressed with the omission of Pina colada and Long Island Ice Tea on the cocktail menu but I suppose you cant have everything all the time. I must say the Crystal Mist, Diamond Martini and the Mambo Jack cocktails all tasted exceptional.

All I need to do now is find some cocktail bars in London, which are as good as the Jewel but also have Pina Coladas and Long Island Ice Tea on the menu, it may be difficult task but I’m up to the challenge and I will find what I’m looking for eventually.

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