This has the makings of an excellent bar in a city where service and hospitality can be very patchy. The furniture is comfy and a lot of care has gone into creating a great-looking bar environment. There is a good selection of spirits available and the people serving my friend and I were friendly and good communicators in English, another big plus in this city. Where I felt the bar really fell down was with its borderline-fraudulent wine menu. Not only did 3 out of the 5 bottles of red on the menu turn out to be discontinued / out of stock (it was difficult to get a straight answer about it), the two wines that were available had highly misleading vintages advertised - when I ordered a bottle listed as "2008/9", a 2014 bottle turned up! Paper and printing are very cheap these days so I can't see why the venue is unable to update its menus. Funnily enough, you never get an older than promised vintage in places like this - for some obscure reason, the 'mistake' always seems to be in favour of the venue rather than the customer!Anyway, if you like whisky and don't mind paying Western capital city prices you probably won't go far wrong here. The ice balls are very pretty and it's a great 'private club' environment to drink in. I can't give a whole-hearted recommendation or more than 3 stars due to the issues with the wine menu, since they point either to incompetence or dishonesty (charitably I suspect the former). It's a pity, because this could be a genuinely excellent bar - I would love to visit in a few months and give a much more positive review.
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