Nikkis Bar Shoreditch

Always an amazing vibe with great cocktails. Awesome bartenders too!

Overpriced bottomless brunch. Came here for the bottomless brunch after trying many others in London and this was the first time I left a bottomless brunch completely sober. The two female drag queens did one game but other than that didn’t interact much and was quite boring compared to other drag host brunches. The only good option was burgers and came in polystyrene boxes, this brunch was very overpriced for watered down drinks and a boring entertainment.

I went to the Drag Brunch for my friend's birthday.
We had a great time, the hosts were very nice and friendly. I loved how they go around and talk to everyone. The staff is also very helpful and friendly!

Very very disappointing brunch. Out of all brunch’s I have been to in London, this was by far the most dissatisfied I have been.
This was advertised as bottomless drinks for 90 minutes - which was not the case. We had watered down jugs for the table, and had to have the same drink for the whole table. We did question this and they allowed a second jug just for the person wanting aperol spritz. They were slow with replacing the jugs - one jug only covered 3 peoples drinks ( not full glasses). The barman even came over to the table and rudely called us cheeky for asking for a replacement and a second time when we had to ask, the waitress told us no. The door staff were rude, at 5.50pm, music stopped, lights on and everyone was shouted at to leave.
The drag act - they were good but barely provided much entertainment - one fancy dress competition, one confession read out and a handful of songs they sung - for a 2.5hr advertised brunch, it wasn’t great. The food was served in polystyrene boxes
The overall experience was not worth the money, the staff were rude and not friendly at all. We felt like they weren’t happy with us wanting another drink.

The bar looks nice. The cocktails are good. But they put a poster for happy hour and also put it in the menu but in fact we were told that 'in december there is no happy hour'. Thats a huge L for the place and they are decieving the customers

Despite giving weeks’ notice due to train strikes, myself and a group of friends were denied refunds for cancelling our booking and have been ignored by staff when calling and the manager who each of us individually emailed 2 weeks ago, and they have taken over £200 off of us collectively even though train strikes were out of our control and we could not attend that date. Really unprofessional and rude, I’ve read past reviews that state similar things, if you are booking with deposits they will take advantage of things are out of your control (like covid, train strikes etc). Additionally, when booking on their website no terms and conditions appear so they cannot use that as an excuse, I have picture evidence I have emailed to them and have still been ignored, avoid at all costs.

Update: no response from management after emailing the same day. Very poor communication as I’ve tried two managers emails now with no response.

Nikkis is not your average bar with its wacky and cool decor. But the cocktails and drinks are amazing here! I’ve been to a lot of places and tried many different cocktails but with Nikkis there are made with passion with the amazing taste to finish it off! Hats off and Shouts out to Ella who always takes care of her customers and myself everytime time Ive been here!

On one hand I had a great night here, really loved the vibe and the choice of music. Yes, they play the best tunes of the 80s and 90s. Win. What let’s it down is the snails pace service. What happens is this, you wait 20 minutes to get served and when you get to the bar you basically double order because nobody wants to wait that long for the drink again. The bar staff are also inconsistent, they had run out of a lot of the base ingredients (who runs out of base ingredients at 6pm on a Saturday night??) - so we asked him to make it without eggs whites, he said no. But my friend had the same drink from a different bartender and they made it without. Anyway, go after 9, service is much quicker miraculously after 2-4-1 is over