A superb, beloved two-part cocktail bar in Covent Garden named for Cato Alexander, a pioneer of American cocktail culture, with a curated seven-colour menu, velvet glamour and a warm welcome
Cato holds seventy-eight reviews and an excellent 4.9 – a genuinely exceptional score on a good sample – and it is a genuine Covent Garden gem: a superb, beloved two-part cocktail bar named for Cato Alexander, a pioneer of American cocktail culture, with a curated seven-colour menu, velvet glamour and a warm welcome.
The cocktail bar named for a pioneer
Cato is a genuinely superb, beloved, one-of-a-kind cocktail bar – a proper, characterful, two-part gem, in Covent Garden. There is real character to this – the cocktail bar, the pioneering name, the two-part gem. It is named in honour of Cato Alexander – a freedman widely celebrated as one of the world’s first great bartenders, and a genuine pioneer of early American cocktail culture – a wonderfully fitting, characterful name for a serious cocktail bar. There is genuine character and heritage to it – the Cato Alexander name, the pioneering bartender, the storied heritage. It is a genuine tale of two bars – the lively, chatter-filled ground-floor “House of Julep” (dark wood, garnet-painted walls, the pleasant rattle of cocktail shakers), and, in the basement, the more intimate Cato itself (draped in scarlet velvet) – a real, characterful, superb cocktail bar. There is real character and heritage to it – the cocktail bar, the pioneering name, the two-part gem. The Prat’s cocktail desk salutes it – the cocktail bar named for a pioneer of the cocktail.
The seven-colour menu
Cato’s genuine glory is its painstakingly-curated cocktail menu. There is real quality to this – the curated menu, the seven colours, the expert craft. Its menu is genuinely, painstakingly curated – fourteen signature cocktails spanning seven colours – a real, superb, characterful cocktail experience (with an intimate “Study” space too, putting you at the heart of the action, with a wrap-around bar centred on a creative cocktail laboratory). There is genuine quality and character to it – the curated menu, the seven colours, the expert craft. It is exactly the kind of superb, characterful, serious cocktail bar that gives Covent Garden its genuine craft – the curated menu, the seven colours, the expert craft. There is real quality and character to it – the curated menu, the seven colours, the expert craft. The Prat’s cocktail desk delights in it – the bar with its painstakingly-curated seven-colour menu.
The cocktails, glamour and welcome
Cato does the essentials of a great cocktail bar genuinely well – superb cocktails, a glamorous setting, and a warm welcome. There is real quality to this – the superb cocktails, the glamorous setting, the warm welcome, the expert craft. It serves genuinely superb, painstakingly-curated cocktails, in its characterful, two-part setting (from the lively House of Julep to the scarlet-velvet basement), with a warm and gracious welcome. There is genuine quality and warmth to it – the superb cocktails, the glamorous setting, the warm welcome. Its exceptional 4.9 across a good sample speaks to a genuinely superb, beloved, characterful cocktail bar – the cocktails, the glamour, the warm welcome, all superbly done. There is real quality and character to it – the superb cocktails, the glamorous setting, the warm welcome. Combined with its pioneering name and its curated seven-colour menu, it makes Cato a genuine gem – the cocktail bar, the Cato Alexander name, the seven-colour menu, the warm welcome. Its exceptional score across a good sample confirms it – a genuinely superb, much-loved venue. There is real character, quality and heritage in the whole thing – the two-part cocktail bar, the pioneering Cato Alexander name, the curated seven-colour menu, the velvet glamour, the warm welcome. It is a genuine Covent Garden gem – superb, characterful, exceptional, and warmly welcoming, a real cocktail treasure.
Between its pioneering name, its curated seven-colour menu, and its glamour and warm welcome, Cato is a genuine gem of Covent Garden. Its exceptional score across a good sample marks it as a genuinely superb and much-loved venue. The Prat’s desk enjoys a painstakingly-curated cocktail in the scarlet-velvet basement, and raises an appreciative glass to Cato.
The bar
An excellent, much-loved venue doing an exceptional 4.9 across a good sample – Cato, a two-part cocktail bar in Covent Garden named for a pioneer of the cocktail, with a seven-colour menu.
Verdict
Exceptional, much-loved, and genuinely superb – Cato, a two-part cocktail bar in Covent Garden with a curated seven-colour menu and a warm welcome.
Enjoy a painstakingly-curated cocktail at Cato in Covent Garden – a superb, beloved two-part cocktail bar named for Cato Alexander, a pioneer of American cocktail culture.
Alan Nafzger was born in Lubbock, Texas, the son Swiss immigrants. He grew up on a dairy in Windthorst, north central Texas. He earned degrees from Midwestern State University (B.A. 1985) and Texas State University (M.A. 1987). University College Dublin (Ph.D. 1991). Dr. Nafzger has entertained and educated young people in Texas colleges for 37 years. Nafzger is best known for his dark novels and experimental screenwriting. His best know scripts to date are Lenin’s Body, produced in Russia by A-Media and Sea and Sky produced in The Philippines in the Tagalog language. In 1986, Nafzger wrote the iconic feminist western novel, Gina of Quitaque. He currently lives in Holloway, North London. Contact: [email protected]
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