At Bassoon Bar, in London’s Corinthia Hotel, they take their cocktails very seriously. A team of expert mixologists have worked hard to bring a range of traditional and innovative drinks. They clearly pride themselves on their work and have even gone to the effort of making a video to explain their ‘philosophy’.
Music, they say, is important to the bar and this is never more clear than when you look at the bar surface itself, which is made of a seven metre extended piano. Bassoon is one of several London bars featured on the World’s Best Bars top 100 bars list. They describe the bar as “glossy in an understated way – vintage jazz art, lots of gleaming dark wood – it doesn’t shout, but still manages to exude a definite sense of glamour.” The bar is of a 1920s art deco style and looks stunning.
There are several entrances to the hotel, leading to the bar. Based on what they told us, two of them should be fine for less able customers to get to the Bassoon Bar and other’s are not. The middle entrance on Northumberland Avenue, marked Corinthia and between the Northall and Massimo entrances, is accessible because they have a lift. The main hotel entrance is also OK since they have a ramp.
However, the other entrance, which is also on Northumberland Avenue is inaccessible. If you take either of the other two entrances then there shouldn’t be any problems getting around and there is a disabled toilet in the bar.
Bassoon Bar and its bespoke cocktails look incredible. It gets a provisional 2.5 BBS Ticks.
