The Alchemist – Good ideas, bad service.
Apologies for the brief hiatus in blog posts, to put it frankly I’m skint and I couldn’t be arsed to write anything up I’ve tasted recently.
The Alchemist is a new cocktail bar/restaurant (mostly bar) in the new Trinity Leeds shopping centre. The jury’s still out on Trinity in my opinion but half of the shops haven’t opened yet and neither has the Trinity Kitchen, so we’ll let them off for the moment. The whole place looks nice anywayJ.
Back to the bars. The Alchemist is nice looking place found on the first floor of the shopping centre, tucked away in the corner near Urban Outfitters. It serves quirky cocktails hence the name and some standard gastro pub food, which I have to confess I haven’t tried so I can’t comment. The drinks menu has plenty to choose from and props to whoever came up with the cocktails some of them are quite creative not only with gimmicky dry ice etc... But flavour combinations as well.
The Alchemist is a new cocktail bar/restaurant (mostly bar) in the new Trinity Leeds shopping centre. The jury’s still out on Trinity in my opinion but half of the shops haven’t opened yet and neither has the Trinity Kitchen, so we’ll let them off for the moment. The whole place looks nice anywayJ.
Back to the bars. The Alchemist is nice looking place found on the first floor of the shopping centre, tucked away in the corner near Urban Outfitters. It serves quirky cocktails hence the name and some standard gastro pub food, which I have to confess I haven’t tried so I can’t comment. The drinks menu has plenty to choose from and props to whoever came up with the cocktails some of them are quite creative not only with gimmicky dry ice etc... But flavour combinations as well.
So first up a passion fruit and lychee meringue martini, the meringue being a glazed vanilla foam, oooooh well posh. Very well done and surprise surprise actually tasted of lychee.
Second drink an Antica Collins basically orangey stuff, gin and bitters. Also very good and epically refreshing if not a little boring compared to a meringue martini.
So exciting drinks nice looking venue what’s not to love? Well seeing as you asked I’ll tell you.
- One this is place is mental busy! Probably because everywhere else that serves exciting drinks is a lot harder to find in
- Two the bar staff are crap. They’re well trained and know how to make a decent drink, the chap who made my Antica Collins stopped to taste it 3 times to check it had enough ice melted in it to serve. (By taste I mean tip a stirrer in and give it a lick, using a fresh stirrer each taste, so no he wasn’t pissed.) But he definitely looked like he didn’t want to be there. I’ve been twice now and each time been made to feel like I’ve just asked the bar staff to lick a turd off the bottom of my shoe when I’ve asked for a drink. The last time I was there the queue was so big that the one girl actually bothering to make drinks had to plead with the other staff to stop chatting and actually serve some customers.
So in conclusion definitely worth a visit, maybe I got unlucky with the staff at the end of a long day?
7/10
1st Floor
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