At a glance:

📍 Location: Fitzrovia.
🗣 Social: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram.
💸 Price: ££
✨ Decor: 9/10.
🍸 Drinks: 9/10.
💲 Value for money: 6/10.
🌏 Website: https://www.mr-foggs.com/house-of-botanicals/

You might be familiar with Mr Fogg, the Victorian explorer who circumnavigated the world in 180 days in a hot-air balloon. But did you know the well-known explorer now has an expanding drinking empire?

Here’s a late-night speakeasy cocktail bar you’ve probably never heard of before, until now.

Secreted behind a boutique tea counter, Blind Spot is located within the opulent surroundings of the St Martin’s Lane Hotel, a boutique hotel just around the corner from touristy Trafalgar Square.

Part of the excellent Morgan’s Hotel group, you know it’s already going to be good even before you start making your way.

My love for quirky cocktail bars knows no bounds and so not long after my trip to the vintage vibes of Cahoots, I soon (and by soon I mean the next day) found my intrepid self at Old Street favourite, Nightjar.

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I have a thing for quirky bars. It’s not just the cocktails, but the charade, the bells & whistles that come along with it.