The Covent Garden Cocktail Club

If you want to visit this incredibly hidden cocktail bar, put on your Sherlock hat since the entrance is virtually difficult to discover! That didn’t stop this popular tiny club from selling out within an hour of opening.

Because the bar was packed, ordering cocktails seemed out of the question (not to mention rude)

It states “Members Only,” but that’s only partly true: you may “join” the club for free on their website, but when we arrived, it was open to any passerby. According to the bartender, the “membership” regulation only applies when the restaurant is full.

I’m skeptical about members-only clubs. Particularly when membership is free. So, what’s the point? Except to appear arrogant? But, because we were on a pub crawl for a friend’s departing event, I was ready to give them the benefit of the doubt and purchased a membership to get our party in.