You might not know this but tucked away in a little corner of Covent Garden in the heart of London is a circus. This isn’t a big top tent affair though full of scary little men, with painted faces, big shoes and red noses squirting water in each other’s faces. This is a circus with a difference as it is a restaurant called Circus which mixes cocktails, excellent food with good old fashioned cabaret. Take a look here http://www.circus-london.co.uk/.
I didn’t know what to expect as I made the trek from suburbia into central London and that was just as well as soon as we entered through the door a bloke by the cloakroom ripped his t-shirt off, shot through the door into the restaurant, sprang up onto a table surrounded by diners and then started to do a mind boggling acrobatic routine on a rather precarious looking pole. As weird as that sounds the whole place works pretty damn well.
The website says that over the course of a two hour sitting you might see between two to three acts, which is probably underselling it as we saw five. Bendy acrobatic man aside we also witnessed two bikini clad women eating fire, as you do, a bloke doing some random mime juggling robot dance type thing with a crystal ball whilst wearing some braces, a couple of other bikini clad women dangling from the ceiling in hula hoops and a Thai looking lady, covered in tattoos, dressed as Alice in Wonderland being chased by a man in a panda suit who then proceeded to take her clothes off. All whilst I was tucking into mighty fine, surprisingly filling three course meal.
If I’m not selling this, then don’t be put off as this place is awesome. The decor is really rather cool and the service is spectacularly good. Yes the menu is on the pricey side and without booze a three course meal works out at about £50 a head but the food is mighty fine and don’t forget that you are also getting a night of entertainment to boot.
If that isn’t enough the wheelchair access is simple, well thought out and to be honest pretty awesome and to make things even better they have a really varied and mouth watering selection of gluten free options on the menu. I had chicken satay skewers as a starter, an exquisite steak as a main and three super soft sorbets for dessert, washed down with pineapple juice and followed by a hot chocolate. All in all a most pleasurable evening.
