I went there on a monday evening, and even without many people inside youi could still see the place has character. The cocktail menu is as big as a bible and the staff extremelly friendly. The decor is quite simple, but when you are there near the bar, the only thing you wanna look is the way they prepare the drinks.

banging bar!! By far my most fav boozer in all of London... As a bartender myself would def like to join this team if ever moved down to the big smoke

Amazing cocktails and great service, the staff really know what they are doing and even the door staff are polite!
For such a well established London bar I have to say I was suprised at how comfortable and relaxing it feels.

Lab is fantastic, when my girlfriend and I stayed in London we were hard pushed to find a cocktail for less than £10, we discovered that Lab serve huge glasses of cocktail filled with fruit for only £7! Plus the music was trance but had a guy randomly playing the flute along with it - superb! The atmosphere was also brilliant and the staff were great, I wished Lab had stayed open all night we wouldn't have left!

In reply to the last comment left, what are you thinking? Lab is a GEM, a sparkling one at that, you Londoners aparently don't appreciate fantastic cocktails.

I've visited Lab twice and both times were an amazing experience. The cocktails are amazing, staff are friendly, attentive and most of all knowledgeable and wherever possible try to give table service. I think that's a winning combination. There is no doubt, next time I'm in London I'll be visiting Lab.

Lab bar was overly expensive, pretentious and the staff were rude. The decor is funky, but the whole atmosphere typifies the worst of central London.

We left Lab as soon as possible, opting for the Wetherspoons down the road and subsequently had a much better time.

Bumped into this site looking for another bar, but hey, the Lab is my favourite in london so...

I've been trying for the last year or so to get a bad drink at the bar. Slow drinks, yes, sometimes, but have you seen what all goes in there? And how can you fault the service? One guy was making - at my count - 17 drinks and still found the time to discuss the history of whatever the hell he'd just made me.

Yeah, Lab gets too busy, but until they find an ejection technician with a magical asshole radar that's just how it is. Sometimes you suffer for their art.

Went to Lab on a Thursday with a date. Great cocktails, friendly staff, not too busy, good music, nice crowd. I'll be back at Lab.