For the last few years, our trips to Paris have regularly centred around retail top-ups at Colette followed swiftly by several drams at one of the various quirky drink dispensaries from Pierre-Charles, Olivier and Romée — the charming chaps behind the ECC, Curio Parlor and Le Prescription.
And finally, finally they've deigned to invade, ahem, 'export' to our humble little island.
Setting up shop on the site of the old Clinic/Thirteen (now there's a blast from the past), the new ECC Chinatown is two floors of 3am-licensed, speakeasy-deco-meets-colonial fabulousness. The drinks list is old-school and absolutely spot-on, and the space has all the quirky details (in-built piano-bar, mirrored ceiling) you'd expect from the ECC gents and their ever-stylish new partner, Hendrick's Gin's Xavier Padovani.
With hostess-on-the-door, Pinky, hot on the crowd case (so behave), we now have somewhere fabulous to drink in town when those early hours roll in — without yielding to another members' club, that is. Or Paris.
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Experimental Cocktail Club 13 Gerrard Street, W1D 5PS.
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