COCKTAILS
Drinks by Manhattans Project
Head Bartender / Owner: Felix Cohen
Welcome to Manhattans Project, where the main thing is alcohol, mixed with things and served in a nice glass. We do classic cocktails and we do them right, and occasionally we do them very wrong and weirdly, and occasionally we serve some up in a glass eagle, and sometimes they are hot. But mainly: classic cocktails, done right. Loosen a long day by letting us stir, shake or build you something that hits the spot. Work through our menu of re-imagined classics and straight up drinks, or tell us what you like and we’ll fix you something to your tastes. Just don’t ask for a mojito…8 Rum Mai Tai £10
If you love rum so much, Becky, why don’t you
just marry it? A Tiki mix of eight rums, turned
into an actual cocktail with almond syrup and
fresh citrus.
A Less Lychee Story £3
Still a taste rollercoaster, just no alcohol. Lychee and Thai basil served long with malic acid and soda.
A Lychee Story £7.5
Plymouth gin, basil and lychee. Yeah: you’re in Plymouth and you’re in Thailand. You’re drinking gin and tasting basil. Where are you and what is happening? Up is down. Down is up. A lychee just hit you in the savouries. Welcome to refreshment.
American Gothic £9
Rye whiskey and Calvados with a little sugar and bitters, smoked with apple wood for that crackling mountain fireside finish. Drink in silence then fuck on a bearskin rug.
Big Apple Sour £9
Like an apple sour, but bigger. And sourer. Trashy Rock & Rye (whiskey and sweets, basically) soured up with a splash of red wine.
Bloody Mary £8
The umamiest Mary that’s ever going to get you. Fermented chilli, Sriracha, wasabi, soy and fish sauce shot through tomato juice and smoked Aylesbury Duck vodka. A Mary so good you could eat it with a spoon for dinner.
Boozy Hot Ribena £8
It’s raining outside. You’re on your couch, watching cartoons. Hot ribena, steaming up your little glasses. Everything’s ok. This feeling, but with gin and St. Germain.
Ersatz Collins £2.5
The classic, made slightly less classic. A dummy Tom with gin syrup and lemon, topped with soda.
Five go to Mexico £9
Tommy’s Margarita goes English. Olmeca Altos tequila, rhubarb juice, elderflower and agave syrup. This literally won a competition once. You ever had a competition-winning cocktail? You are about to.
Flight: First we take Manhattan £16
The whistlestop tour: Manhattan, Red Hook, Prospect Park and Little Italy cocktails.
Flight: Italian Dreams £16
Feeling bitter? Negroni, Corn Boulevardier, Pisco Negroni and Bitter Bounty.
Hibiscus Cooler £8
A fancy southern belle version of a drink: El Jimador tequila with house special hibiscus syrup, muddled with lime and ginger ale. Me- oh-my and I do declare: damn son, make us six more of those things.
HVT £3
Sweet, sharp, crisp. No, we’re not describing a premium coleslaw. It’s a drink. Although: kind of in the mood for coleslaw now. Local honey with a splash of muscatel vinegar, cucumber ribbons and tonic.
Jugo Verde £8
Mexican Green Juice. Pineapple, coriander, orange, chilli and lime. Healthy, with or without tequila.
Lapsang Martinez £10
Fords gin, Lapsang tea and Talisker, mellowed with Antica formula. Smoky and complex; half Churchill, half Roosevelt.
Manhattan £10
Be weird if we didn’t do a Manhattan, wouldn’t it? Thankfully, we do pretty much the best: Rittenhouse 100, softened with cognac, rounded with a blend of vermouths and garnished with a homemade brandied cherry (mind the stone).
Monthly Old Fashioned £10
Your classic Old Fashioned, messed up with various seasonal twists. Real details on the blackboard, but it’s basically seasonal fruit syrups with great spirits and bitters.
Orgasm #2 £8.5
St George coffee liqueur and Jim Beam Devil’s Cut, topped with condensed milk foam. Thick and decadent, like a fat simple prince.
Pina Collider £9
Condensed milk, Sage-infused Olmeca Altos Reposado, pineapple and lime. Close your eyes and believe you’re on a beach. Try not to hum that song. It’s not called that. Read the name of the cocktail again. No. Stop humming it. No.
Sex on the Beach #2 £8
Your brassy aunt’s favourite. Few White Whiskey with blood orange soda, cranberry bitters and tinned peach syrup. Don’t you feel cheeky? Don’t you feel like grinding on a pole and getting off with a cabbie? The spirit of Aunt Linda lives on, tonight, within you.
The Eagle £14
Ultra premium spirits, mixed and served from a glass eagle. A glass eagle. A glass fucking eagle. You’ve not drunk alcohol until you’ve drunk it from a massive glass eagle. Limited quantities, because we’ve only got one eagle.
Underwood £9
In honour of our dear friend John, who’s laid up with a particularly niche form of cancer, but is still the finest drinker and talker we know. Bone marrow infused Cognac Sazerac. Best sipped slowly over a long story.
£1 to Anthony Nolan
Get one half price with a marrow donor card