An immersive bar hidden behind a letterbox is set to open opposite Borough Market next month. Cahoots: The Post Office will invite guests to their 1940s-era postal depot complete with piles of undelivered carrier and carrier pigeons from Friday 11 October.
From the outside, the Borough Yards venue will look old and forgotten but all is not as it seems. After being welcomed by a ‘postie’, guests will be smuggled into a hideous two-storey sortie that has been turned into an illicit hideout by Cahoots Scoundrels.
Cocktails whiz overhead through a maze of air-powered tubes, delivering drinks from the bar to the tables in minutes. These include the aptly named This Way Up, a concoction made with Patrón Silver tequila, and Signed, sealed, delivered, using Bombay Sapphire gin.
On the mezzanine level, guests will find The Dead Letter Depot, a treasure trove of letters and packages that never reached their final destination, and Tea Corner, where new telephone switches can be used to listen to tantalizing gossip and top secret dispatches.
The bar will seat up to 80 guests, with themed options including repurposed mailbag chairs and a converted mail coach. Tables are already filling up so it’s best to Book in advance here.
Cahoots: Postal Office is the third location within the Cahoots brand. It follows the success of Soho venues Cahoots Ticket Hall, a 1940s-themed pub, and Cahoots Underground, a bar modeled after an abandoned post-war tube station.
You’ll find Cahoots: Postal Office at Borough Yards from October 11. Check out their Instagram before then here.
