Fans of Cahoots — the 1940s tube station-themed cocktail bar — have some good news to toast this autumn.
A second Cahoots bar — Cahoots: Postal Office — arrives in Borough Yards on 11 October, and as the name suggests, this under-the-arches bolt hole is themed around a post office mail depot, specifically one set in 1946.
What exactly does that mean? By the sounds of it, a hugely fun immersive bar with seats in a converted mail train cart, carrier pigeons (not real ones we'd guess), a Tea Corner where repurposed telephone switchboards can be used to listen in on tantalising 1946 gossip and top secret dispatches, and stacks of 'undelivered parcels' including an exotic airmail freight from Cuba containing Winston Churchill's favourite cigars. There'll also be regular live vintage music.
The whole setup is described as a "raucous high spirits hub for distributing pilfered rations, home-brewed hooch, and cocktails featuring exotic smuggled ingredients."
Plenty to write home about already then, but perhaps the most thrilling thing about Cahoots: Postal Office is its pneumatic tube system, which will send cocktails whizzing over drinkers' heads, as the drinks are sent from bar to table through a series of air-powered tubes. Said cocktails will include:
🍸 This Way Up made with tequila
🍸 Signed, Sealed, Delivered made with gin
🍸 Par Avion made with Grey Goose L' Original vodka
The promo pics also suggest libations will be dished up in inventive ways, including via Queen's head, brown paper bag, or tiny post box. We will certainly not be returning any of these bevvies to sender.
Cahoots: Postal Office is not London's first post office themed bar; the Sylvan Post in Forest Hill is a former post office-turned-pub, featuring mail boxes and an old Post Office vault. Still, none of the beers we've ordered there over the years has been served in a mini post box...
Cahoots: Postal Office, arrives in Borough Yards 11 October 2024
Images: James Riley
