Hidden beneath Covent Garden’s streets, Eve Bar has carved out a unique space where world-class mixology and creative storytelling collide. Now, the bar enters a new chapter with the launch of its most conceptual and technically accomplished cocktail menu to date: The Garden of Eve. Described as “Chapter IV” in the bar’s evolution, this menu marks a turning point in the team’s philosophy—one that elevates flavour, emotion and memory above all else.
Created by Bar Manager Mario Hernández and the award-winning team behind Frog by Adam Handling, The Garden of Eve invites us into a space where each drink reflects the full identity of a single ingredient. It’s a menu rooted in discipline and designed with poetic precision, offering an experience that is equal parts flavour journey and philosophical exploration.
A singular vision: one ingredient, infinite temptation
At the heart of The Garden of Eve lies a deceptively simple concept: each cocktail is crafted around just one core ingredient—a fruit, flower, herb, spice or root. But this isn’t minimalism for its own sake. The aim is to fully explore a single flavour, with every component in the glass serving to highlight that ingredient’s essence.
According to Mario, this structure was born from the idea that flavour memory is deeply personal. Rather than constructing cocktails loaded with multiple layers, the team sought to distil each serve into something pure, recognisable and emotionally resonant. For Mario, cocktails are a language, and the new menu is a conversation—one that starts with memory and ends with meaning.
To reflect this idea visually, each cocktail is served with an AI-generated artwork, designed in-house to evoke the personality and “mood” of the hero ingredient. It’s a modern, expressive nod to how flavour and emotion often blur.
A single ingredient focus
Each cocktail on The Garden of Eve menu spotlights one single ingredient—explored with intention, clarity and creativity. Here are some of our favourites.
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Raspberry
Raspberry takes centre stage in this Negroni-style serve, adding tart fruitiness and brightness to a blend of hibiscus vodka, white vermouth and cocoa butter-washed spirit. It cuts through with precision, softening the bitterness and lifting the drink.
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Coffee
In this dessert-style cocktail, coffee brings comforting bitterness and structure. Balanced by butter-washed gin and tiramisu foam, the result is nostalgic, layered and quietly indulgent.
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Gooseberry
Gooseberry’s sharp acidity and green bite shine through in a clarified highball, paired with fino sherry and Sauvignon Blanc. It creates a crisp, mouth-watering sip that evokes chilled summer whites.
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Miso
Roasted miso gives body and savoury depth to this Old Fashioned-style cocktail. Combined with whisky, salted honey and turnip syrup, it delivers a rich umami base that lingers beautifully. This was one of the best cocktails we have had this year if not ever. Using miso in mixology may sound easy but it needs a lot of skill to balance a drink.
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Cherry
Here, cherry appears via blossom vermouth, softening a bold Macallan base with floral sweetness and a round, elegant finish. It turns a Manhattan into something more delicate and expressive.
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Apricot
Apricot cordial is the heart of this silky serve, layered with Chardonnay and gin. The stone fruit’s mellow tang bridges the drink’s acidity and the herbal lift from basil oil.
Technique meets emotion
Each drink is the result of both culinary technique and emotional intent. The team uses processes like fermentation, clarification, distillation, fat-washing and infusing to build clean, layered drinks that feel effortless on the palate but take days to prepare.
This blend of technical complexity and emotional storytelling is key to what makes The Garden of Eve so distinctive. It’s not a menu designed to shock—it’s one designed to resonate.
Excellent value in central London
Perhaps the most surprising detail of all? The pricing.
In a city where cocktails at this level of creativity and precision often cost £20 or more, Eve Bar’s new menu is remarkably accessible. Each drink is priced between £12.50 and £17, with the majority around the £15 mark.
This makes The Garden of Eve one of the best value-for-quality cocktail menus in London. For the level of mixology, ingredient sourcing, and overall brilliant experience offered, it’s a rare find—and one that invites us to stay longer, try more, and truly engage with the full menu.
Small plates from the Frog by Adam Handling’s kitchen
The drinks menu is complemented by a new selection of seasonal small plates, developed in collaboration with the Michelin-starred kitchen upstairs. These are dishes with real intent, echoing the ingredient-led philosophy of the drinks and designed for pairing.
The new bar food menu showcases indulgent dishes made by the chefs at Frog by Adam Handling with bites like the ‘Chicken Sandwich’, ‘Mackerel, lime and sorrel’, and savoury doughnuts including the ‘OG Cheese’, ‘Lamb ragu, pickle’, and ‘Prawn cocktail’.
The food is plated with finesse but not fuss, and serves as a crucial part of the experience, elevating the cocktails and offering a genuinely complete visit.
Design, atmosphere & artistry
The interior of Eve Bar is moody, intimate and detail-rich. With no windows and low lighting, it evokes a sense of timeless escapism. The bar lab, visible behind glass, brings a sense of theatre and transparency to the cocktail process.
The pairing of AI-generated cocktail artwork with each serve adds a new layer of storytelling, allowing us to “see” the flavour in abstract form. This visual expression of taste makes the menu as stimulating to the mind as it is to the palate.
Final thoughts: a menu that stays with you
With The Garden of Eve, Eve Bar has achieved something rare: a cocktail menu that is simultaneously intellectual, emotional and delicious. Built around discipline, memory, and creativity, this is not just a drinks list—it’s a philosophy in liquid form.
By focusing on single ingredients, the team challenges us to slow down, reflect, and taste with intent. In doing so, they’ve created one of the most exciting and rewarding drinking experiences in London today.
Whether you come for one drink or several, for the snacks or the stories, one thing is certain: you’ll want to return to this garden of Eve.
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