EBG Rating: 8.1/10

Choice/Quality of Drinks:
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High quality wines and cocktails from a purposefully stripped back menu are superb and accompany the rarefied air.

Style/Décor:
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Unmarked bar along a covered arcade with blackened windows. Inside, you’re in a high ceilinged, Modernist Deco space with striking curves. It’s purposefully dark, super dark lit only by candles across antiquey tables. There’s a magnificant cabinet behind a bar, which is lit and so really catches the eye.

Atmosphere/Character:
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Warm and cosy in the winter, but it’s no alpine Inn, this is an arch-stylised cocktail bar aiming at the cutting edge – too cool and above the mainstream, and hoi polloi, so it thinks. The fact the atmosphere is warm and clandestine reduces the risk of the business coming across with icy angularity.

Amenities/Events:
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Snacks

Value For Money:
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Higher than average but in line with the quality of products overall.

Description:
Based in the arcade overlooking an impressive brick church, the Biserica Kretzulescu, you could easily walk past without realising.

It’s an unmarked bar with blackened windows just before you reach Artichoke Bistro – the people you see gathering outside are at Artichoke, not here.

The door to the bar has a coin slot which takes only 50 Bani coins. You will need at least one each to enter. The machine sometimes doesn’t work either, so resort to banging on the door if needed.

Inside, you’re in a high ceilinged, Modernist Deco space with striking curves. It’s purposefully dark, super dark lit only by candles across antiquey tables. There’s a magnificant cabinet behind a bar, which is lit and so really catches the eye.

Warm and cosy in the winter, but it’s no alpine Inn, this is an arch-stylised cocktail bar aiming at the cutting edge – too cool and above the mainstream, and hoi polloi, so it thinks. The fact the atmosphere is warm and clandestine reduces the risk of the business coming across with icy angularity.

Despite the obvious pretension that has inspired this bar, their efforts succeed handsomely in the execution.

High quality wines and cocktails from a purposefully stripped back menu are superb and accompany the rarefied air.

For a high quality evening drink and a sense of woozy, low-lit detachment from the city, you will struggle to do better in the capital.

(Added March 2026)