The Standard launches new cocktail bar

The Standard hotel in London has announced it will launch Sweeties this month, a new 10th-floor cocktail bar and late-night destination. 

Occupying the eastern length of the Brutalist building in King's Cross and accessed via the hotel’s red pill exterior lift, Sweeties’ interiors, designed by long-time Standard collaborator Shawn Hausman, will represent Hollywood in the early 1970s. It will feature ochre velvet sofas, ruched leather banquettes, mirrored tables and, apparently, a six-foot antique phallic sculpture.

The bar will offer a menu of 'naturally mood-boosting' cocktails created by The Standard in collaboration with mixologists Jack Sotti and Todd Austin. The drinks will be centred around a blend of 'feel-good ingredients' and energising adaptogens and nootropics, including reishi, ashwagandha and holy basil. 

Signature cocktails include the pink Frothy Boi, with lacto-rhubarb, gin, raspberry, pink pepper and gut-friendly fermented amazake oats; the Pick Me Up, made with a blend of eight adaptogenic mushrooms, brown vodka, buttery cacao and coffee; and the Crystal Healing, a vivid blue cocktail made with spirulina, pepper dulse seaweed distillate, bergamot and electrolyte-rich coconut ice. 

Sweeties opens on Friday 24 February, operating from 5pm on Wednesday to Saturday each week. 

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