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    Lab 22

    5.0 (6 reviews)
    ModerateCocktail Bars
    Open 5:00 pm - 4:00 am (Next day)

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    7 years ago

    This place has a nice atmosphere and makes amazing drinks. Ben is a wizard when coming up with drinks and is very, very friendly.

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    6 years ago

    Love the place. They have the most characteristic Screwdrivers and the staff are always friendly and attentive.

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    Mocka Lounge

    (18 reviews)

    £££

    Mill Lane, or the 'Cafe Quarter' as Cardiff seems to slowly be rebranding the area, is full of bars…read moreand restaurants (very few cafes, actually). This is the kind of place that will become packed any day after work when the sun is shining. Each place has tables and chairs on the pavement in a very European-feeling setting with trees and waiters and glasses of rose wine dotted about. Mocka Lounge is one of these places, and, very much in its favour, is one of the few places that remains a happening and well visited place during the entire day and not just coming alive in the evening like many of the others. This is a great place for a sophisticated drink and bite to eat at lunch time and late afternoon, and then stay sitting and watch the nightlife awaken around you as the sun goes down. One of the most attractive and friendly places along Mill Lane, this place is certainly worth checking out. Lovely.

    I was all geared up to hate this place. I don't enjoy Mill Lane, the pretentiousness and the prices…read morerub me up the wrong way. Walking in to Snow Patrol on the stereo wasn't a great start to this visit either. But upon sitting down I found myself warming to the place. The service was excellent, prompt and professional, the black and red décor very much to my liking and the bottle of house red (which comes in at £14 a bottle) was light and fruity and highly quaffable. So much so that I found myself able to ignore The Black Eyed Peas that has dripping out of the speakers . We ordered the steak (8oz Sirloin = £14) from the surprisingly small menu. During the time it was being prepared I flicked through the drinks list. And then it became clear. Food for Mocka is a lunchtime slash early evening fixation (the kitchen closes at 8.30pm) with the main focus of the business on cocktails. Indeed rather than focus of how say much a double spirit and mixer is, such as the drinks lists in Wetherspoon's do, Mocka do things by the bottle. With a bottle of Grey Goose setting you back £90 and a list entitled "Cognac & Cigars", they're clearly going for a classy clientele or those on a total paycheck blowout. The steaks arrived and were divine. They were seasoned perfectly, the chips were super thick, the mushroom was buttery and meaty, while the peppercorn sauce was creamy with a delicious kick to it. My girlfriend reckoned it was the best steak she'd had in Cardiff. We opted to share a chocolate fondue for dessert. And while the chocolate was slightly sour, it strangely worked with the array of fruit, waffle and brownies we had to dunk with. A quick cocktail (from £5.80) was ordered to finish off what had been a fabulous evening. Highly recommended, if you've just been paid.

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    Soda

    (14 reviews)

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    I like to surround myself with lovely things. I like to drink in a place with a lovely atmosphere…read moreand a decent carpet, I'm a fan of low level lighting and elitism. Sodabar is a place that I like purely based on aesthetics. It's a bit, poser-ish yes but it's also warm and chic and provides a haven from those horrible city centre bars because it has all of this lovely wood and plush seating. On a weekend, it's filled with annoying people and on a week day it's slightly dead so the clientele can leave something to be desired. I visited with my good friend, an ex bartender (who had worked in some of the nicest bars) to see what all the fuss was about. There's a membership fee which allows for reduced entry, I don't really see the point, you still have to pay at least £3 even if you're a member and I think for non members the starting fee is a fiver, depending on what's on. The girls on the dance floor were a bit orange and screechy, the boys on the perimeter were a bit orange and pervy. The drinks were mediocre and the tonic for the gin wasn't as cold as it should have been. Still, it looked pretty, until my friend moved a table on a white rug and revealed a huge white ring underneath it. I wonder how often they hoover... Sodabar is nice, it's alright, the setting is lovely, just don't look too closely.

    Sodabar tried its level best to make me feel privileged just for being inside. And it worked…read more... for about 3 hours. My first experience of Sodabar came as we attended for a friends 21st birthday. She had somehow managed to wangle the VIP area. It felt a bit ridiculous (but also pretty awesome) to go behind a little red rope, away from the peasants and get free champagne and food all night. Naturally then, my first impression of the place was that it was great. But bear in mind that I didn't spend a single penny that evening so my view was bound to be tainted somewhat. I then made the mistake of going back as a regular punter. What a letdown it proved to be. First of all, it's £3 to get in, which is alright I suppose. From there on in though, unless it's a Sunday night the drinks are pretty extortionate. I paid just under £8 for two bottles of your average lager. That makes my heart weep. So prices are no good then how about the atmosphere in there? Um.......nah! That's pretty dull as well to be honest with you. It's decked out really nicely in fairness but that just attracts people who love to feel special and think that the high prices make this an "upper class" establishment. They're wrong and there's not a great vibe inside. The best part of the whole place would have to be the upstairs decking area. I wouldn't like to brave it in the weather we're having as I write this but in the Summer months, it was pretty nice up there. There's plenty of large tables and plenty of seating and it's got it's own bar aswell as a seperate dancefloor. That goes some way to redeeming the bar itself but not by enough. For the amount of money you'd wind up spending it's simply not worth it.

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