All roads lead to Bauhaus
3 years ago, A Bar With Shapes For A Name surprised the east of the British capital with a concept that is not just words, but rather shapes. This breathtaking cocktail bar owes its powerful and explosive identity to the history and theory of Bauhaus, a famous German school of architecture closed in the 1930s by the Nazis. Clean and inspired by the artistic movement based on shapes and primary colors, A Bar With Shapes For A Name rises each year in the top 50 best cocktail bars in the world.
From London to Bordeaux, there is only one shaker
Building on its success and a popularity that transcends borders, the London cocktail bar has set up shop in Bordeaux. Its opening caused a stir a few weeks ago, near the Porte de Bourgogne, in a neighborhood where addresses of such prestige are becoming rarer. The Bordeaux expansion translates quite naturally as “A bar with shapes for a name” and uses the same exceptional ingredients.
Remy Savage, the cherry on the spirit
The The menu of this high-end cocktail bar is signed by Remy Savagean influential figure in the world of cocktails crowned with the prize for best mixologist in the world. All glass is built around art and architecture. THE 12 recipes are original creations entirely homemade, with laboratory technical precision. The bartenders – called the interns – come regularly to London to train and continue to master mixology in its most subtle eminence.
16 original creations around emotional perception
Among the essentials? Remember, among other things, the « Casimir » with vodka and a clarification of peach yogurt from the Burdigala dairy, the “ Pastel » or the star of the house with vodka, rhubarb and raspberries or even the “ Atlas » with whisky, milk jam and tonka bean. Despite the technique and expertise required to make them, the cocktails are offered at prices accessible to all: from €7 to €14 for the most elaborate.
And if one Bar with Shapes for Name naturally enters the closed list of the most popular addresses elitists from Bordeaux, he wishes to address a wide audience and democratize his cocktails of excellence. To do this, it also focuses on a small food offering with raw products combined with ingredients used in cocktails such as sandwiches and brownies. And a recreational part, the Bordeaux signature, with revisited classics like the half a lychee beer or rhubarb kir.
Designated as the Bauhaus students would have imagined 100 years after its heyday, the Bar with Shapes sports a minimal and refined place with an outdoor terrace of 20 seatsa warm presentation room and a room at the back designed as a creation laboratory where customers are invited to discover the processes for creating each of the bottles.
Objective ? Democratizing the high-flying cocktail in an immersive universe that mixes aesthetics and depth of soul in each of its m2.
A Bar with Shapes
Address: 17 Quai des Salinières, 33000 Bordeaux, France
Open Wednesday to Sunday from 6 p.m. to 2 a.m.
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