Reservations were made for 9 at the Drunken Monkey, on Great Eastern st, Shoreditch (nearest tube is old street). We entered into a very red ... restaurant/bar... the music was extremey loud and the place was pretty crammed. The restaurant area was up some stairs at the back where there was nooo air con just just fans... we sat near the fire exit and kitchen (not ideal). The waitress (rastawinehouse) brought us complimentary "stale " prawn crackers. I ordered a pineapple Monkey mojito (7 pounds) which was extrememly refreshing .. extremely good .. (the place has special happy hour times on their mojitos) Ri had a strawberry Dacquiri which was good... strong... but quite bitter. Later on I had a Drunken Pear (pear liqueur/prosecco based) yum yum yum but to me tasted like coconut (maybe because I was slightly tipsy... Ri reasurred me it was Pear lol) She had Strawberry Lemonade .... which was quite sweet but good.
As for the food...(chinese) the menu was pretty odd.. (reasonable prices) because it was pretty much dim sum and side dishes like rice and noodles, there were no main meals to go with the rice and noddles. We had the chicken satay and the Singapore noodles with chicken.. the food was ok but after half a plate of noodles we were bored ...
with it...
The drinks were definetely the highlight and it was clear this is why the bar was booming ... I will definetely come back for the cocktails unfortunately not the food.
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