ABQ London

May 4th, 2023

Rip off, 34 for 2 cocktails that taste bad and are tiny. Way too far out of central london too so not worth the commute. Also staff werent very speedy
Apr 29th, 2023

Underwhelming, questionable hygiene (Walter would disapprove). I personally found the experience boring. Easy to make cocktails; the only two things you will do is change the colour of your liquid blue to pink and freeze some liquid pronto with dry ice. Also, chances are you will be drinking your cocktails out of plastic measuring jugs; it didn't feel sciency; it felt like one of the late shifts in the kitchen when you drink out of any vessel available, apparently they ran out of everything else, so we've been told.
Apr 26th, 2023

Overall quite an underwhelming and disappointing experience. We did the cocktail making experience and then planned to stay for some food after. The cocktail making experience was not the best. When we were arrived we were told there was probably stuff missing from our station and that we should ask them for it. Turns out pretty much most of what we needed was missing and the staff werent that easy to get hold of so we spent a lot of the experience just trying to find stuff ourselves. There were instructions of what you need to do so its very self serve, which is fine though not what I would have expected for the price. It also didnt help that the instructions were not clearly written and steps were missing so it was quite confusing when it got to what was meant to be the magical of mixing it all together. Both cocktails just used dry ice to make them look cool, so it wasnt that impressive. However, overall it was fun and we did enjoy the cocktails. It got worse though when we finished and went to get food. It was a friends birthday so Id booked a table. They had not record of a booking, even though it is through the same booking system which I booked the cocktail making without issue. They then took us to the bar upstairs and suggested 6 of us eat around a tiny coffee. We asked them if we could sit downstairs, which they did arrange, but all in all it took 45 mins to sort out. When we did eat, the food was ok, but it was a bit weird and I wouldnt recommend. The pizza bases were a naan bread, which was odd. Then the rest of the food seemed to have an Indian twist on it, but it was patatas bravas and vegetable crquets and it didnt really work for me. Overall, there are much better experiences in London.
Apr 8th, 2023

Embarrassing experience. I booked a table for 14 people and confirmed it by calling on the morning of the day of. This was for a surprise birthday party. When I got into the bar with all of the guests I was told 'Yes you booked but this is a bar so there is no table, you can just stand and order drinks' by the staff at the entrance. I don't know how you expect us to order drinks when we are all standing squished like sardines, we were basically all standing queuing from the entrance. Very grateful there were other pubs around with tables and welcoming staff. Disastrous start to a surprise birthday party as I had to find another place fast and really unaccommodating on behalf of ABQ. Cannot trust this bar unfortunately and everyone thought it was appalling. If you cannot accommodate for 14 guests then don't approve a booking of 14 guests.
Apr 6th, 2023