I've been there a few times as a non-member and will always go back. Great place for a date and the waitering staff are incredibly friendly! I've been to a few of these underground-type bars but I always come back to this one! 10 out of 10!!

p.s. I agree, it can sometimes be a bit too dark (so dark that it's hard to read the menus) but it's very romantic! Plus, the toilets are labelled 'Milk' and 'Honey', which means you have to check which you are the first time you go

Finally found the combination of Long Black on the board, and the order taken by someone with a kiwi accent, which means all is right with the world!

I find some of the previous reviews hard to believe. I am a member and always find the staff very welcoming, helpful, and accommodating. The cocktails and the bar food are excellent and I have never had an issue when I turn up with or without a reservation. Although I do agree it is sometimes too dark.

I have been to Milk and Honey a handful of times. I have always sensed that the staff are not talking to you, rather talking at you.

I don't think it's pure arrogance, just maybe the lack of light in there gets to their brains. Saturday night was the last time I'll ever go there.

Detailed explanation from our waiter on two mutually exclusive techniques of producing ice, yes ice, was met quite rightly with mild amusement, but not even close to derision, from our party in the early hours of the morning.

To our great surprise, he reacted to this claiming that "they take their ice very seriously". Our host diplomatically tried twice to diffuse the situation.

Yet he was still bullish in proving a non existent point to paying customers.

His front foot analogy in response underpinned the sheer ignorance of at all, "you wouldn't criticise a restaurant for explaining how their plates are different from another restaurant".

Come on, think for one moment, when on earth would that ever ever happen?? I despair with London sometimes.

I booked to visit M&H and received a phone call in the early evening confirming my booking - all good I thought. Nothing like a spot of customer service to get off to a good start. I was 10 mins late arriving at the 'club' and whilst almost there, I received another call asking where I was and would I be turning up! Customer Service gone too far methinks.



I entered the place and was totally mortified -it was so dark, I had to use a lighter to read the drinks menu. In fact for dark, read gloomy. We were then put on a very small round table by the walkway through the 'club', so anybody that went by brushed our legs sticking out (the table was very small).



As for service, I expect more from a private club rather than what I got, which was 2 barely interested Eastern Europeans wandering about looking lost. As for the other clientele - well, if you like lots of young, loud and squealing girlies making an unpleasent noise - go fill yer boots.



In summary, what is promised and what I experienced at what is supposed to to be a private club was, quite frankly rubbish. I can think of 100 other things to do with £300 membership rather than waste it on this place. Here's a thought - you can drink in the Ritz Hotel on Piccadilly in better surruondings, with a better class of people and far better service - and its free!

Rivers of Milk and Honey abound in paradise, flowing through soporific canals behind a non-descript dark entrance with its associates including The Player in Soho and Milk and Honey Manhattan.



This is the genre-defying club shrouded in John Le Carresque secrecy where jet-setters forge trans-Atlantic networks and many a cross-border transaction takes root! This speakeasy reservations only club has deservedly been awarded Class Magazine Bar of the Year. The members only Red Room is the most serene place for a relaxed drink. Sink into celestial leather sofas or travel to a basement peppered with more of a hum! The middle floor has cozy booths and a bar where you can sip on scrumptious fruity twists designed by cocktail guru Dale DeGroff, dished up by waiters in braces.



Milk & Honey's club rules lay down the law like Moses - no name-dropping, howling or chatting up the ladies. One rule is a blessing for all ladies: no man can come up and speak to them, females will initiate conversation. Ladies, here is the Garden of Eden for you, you won't be hassled and can light up a cigarette and have a conversation with the deliciously handsome men around you. Women - welcome to the Garden of understated elegance!

Yes as below...the place has turned very nasty

Booked twice - apparently I was mistaken twice. Last time (and I mean last...) I was told that if I didn't like it then I should, shall we say, "go" somewhere else.

Got sent into the bar both times - grim place full of people who imagine they are terribly classy and upmarket, and have paid £250 for a year's membership - to sit in the dark with really poor food and average cocktails.

The place is a confidence trick - utterly awful social climbing nonsense for people who like to think they are paying for something traditional and upmarket...get a life guys.

Milk and Honey has lost it - aggressive management, unfriendly service and some sad, sad food. The staff turnover is the clue - the manager, the proof. Membership is not the prized possession they claim any more. This place has just lost its way...avoid like the plague - the place is a phony.

There are lots of good clubs (but also avoid the Player, and the Match Bar - part of this group - with similar policies in terms of keeping your bookings and politeness...).

By the way don't complain unless you want to be 'taken outside' by the GM for a talking to or have your guests humiliated.

I've been a member of Milk and Honey since it opened and when I'm in town I always seem to end up here. Entry is only a phone call away and they are always more than accommodating - for example I left a club at 1.30am and wanted to drink on, a quick phone call later and myself and 4 guests (over the usual number allowed) were shown to our table!

The quality of drinks are unrivalled in London, the staff extremely courteous, the venue itself is perfectly presented - a must visit, even if you can only make it till 11pm when only members are allowed in.