The Mezzanine in Stratford

Mark was an excellent server! Super good at his job and gave us an excellent service and recommendation of drinks

The vibes!!! Grab a bottle and chill there for the evening, definitely a bar for first dates when you want to get to know the person and chat lots. Chill vibes & aesthetically, very pleasing.

This place describes itself as ‘World class’ but this is is pushing the description somewhat. Just tried to order a Brandy Alexander cocktail. They have no cream to be able to make this simple cocktail. This ‘World class cocktail bar’ (Their description, not mine) is in a hotel but apparently they can’t rustle up any cream? Nice atmosphere and otherwise good service but describing this as Word Class is World Class Overselling!

Love this bar, loads of choice and seriously well crafted cocktails. Outstanding service too, it's great to have a place like this to go to in Stratford. Not hard to find as it's located in this striking building, just outside Stratford International Station and Westfield. Don't get Stratford International Station confused with Stratford Station :) They are different!

The only reason I’m giving 2 stars is because I’m trying to give this place the benefit of doubt and perhaps caught service on a bad day and as someone who served in the f&b industry for several years, I empathise when it happens. I only wanted a few drinks with a friend and we left before even having our first round, due to what felt like staff ignoring us the entire time we were there. At first I suspected it may have been because we were dressed casually, but after seeing other customers in hoodies, this couldn’t have been the case. We walked in to get seated and nobody came to greet us after standing around for a few minutes. I went to the bartender to ask for a table and it was only after that another staff member escorted us to our table. But before we were even at our seats, another customer came up to the staff we were with because they couldn’t open a bottle and she literally stopped bringing us to our table, pointed to where we could sit and tended to this customer. It’s like she literally forgot about us. Okay, whatever. We sat down and we just...waited...expecting her to come back to us with menus / explain service but absolutely nothing. We saw several staff go back and forth, serve other customers and not once did anyone look at our empty table and question if something was wrong. I then started to think I just needed to flag someone down or go up to the bar again. It was only after another table of 2 moved nearer to us and I asked them how to get drinks. One of them said “we’ve been waiting for a bottle for 40 minutes.” That just spoke volumes of what we were going to expect if we stayed longer. So we left. I had high expectations for this place. As I said before, maybe it was just a bad day for service and I understand external factors could be at play here, so I hope the next visit won’t be as rough.