The Top Hat bar and restaurant is a creative, immersive dining experience in central London based on Monopoly. Found beside the immersive 4D Monopoly Lifesized, this unique hospitality venture offers players the chance to refuel post-game should they have worked up an appetite next door. The theming on the classic board game extends throughout the decor and menu, with cocktails named after famous locations from the family favourite.
The menu is mapped out to look like the playing cards and is a celebration of good old British classic pub grub, offering three course options and sides. Not only does the food itself sound delicious, it's been playfully named, too. For example, there's starters such as the "Sweet Victory" with corn ribs, house salsa and plant based feta, or there's the "Banker's Share" with a for-two baked camembert accompanied by sourdough. As for mains, the "Jailbird" sounds hearty - a classic caesar salad with roasted chicken breast, sourdough croutons and house Caesar dressing, while the "Cash Cow" offers a crowd-pleasing beef burger with skin-on chips. Those with a sweet tooth will likely want to try Mr Monopoly's Millionaire Cheesecake - and who could blame them, when it sounds this good?
The cocktail list looks after both abstainers and drinkers with a mix of serves that offer both boozy and soft options. The Marlborough Street – a mocktail – is inspired by the district of Soho and combines flavours of blackberry, ginger, cinnamon, lemon and rose. Stronger stuff is found in the Water Works which the bar team says takes its direction from the orignal York water tower, serving two with Tanqueray Gin, Peach Schnapps, Blue Curcao, citric acid and sugar syrup.
Interiors are suitably glitzy for the area with golden feature lighting, a marble bar and petrol-blue furnishings offset by upholstered red booths. Nods to Monopoly include the use of reclaimed fabric from tube seating used on the Northern and Piccadilly lines.