Medieval Bar

Deep in the heart of a summer 2010 experience into the world of food by Bompas and Parr 8 adventurers set about climbing down a narrow and darkly lit staircase into a gloomy corridor beyond which itself leads across a narrow wooden bridge across the spat of eels beneath. The pathway grows more challenging until one its stepping from metal grate to metal grate over thick dark swamp waters, holding a makeshift rope from above for support and then suddenly we are in a dimly lit but proudly presented dungeon. A well dressed barman suddenly emerges from this scene of black plague and explains the nature of the bar before us, ancient remedies and elixirs mixed to cure us of our daily imbalances and woes. I have previously been earmarked with a blue sticker and as such am fed a treat of shallow spirit in a glass with an ice cube on the end of a stick and something about Phlegm and pears. The experience is one I remain cautious about but finish my drink quite glad I was not a green participant who is forced to drink absinthe and choke back mushroom popcorn. We leave the dimly lit bar, its alchemist feel and the eels to head back towards the rest of the experience in a tiny lift

Overall a well presented idea, of course with no money changing hands the selection was one that was made for the drinkers but a theatrical performance well put together by this, one of the most curious evenings I have ever encountered - 7/10