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Vote for us in the London Lifestyle Awards!

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We’re delighted to have been shortlisted for ‘London Bar of the Year’ at the London Lifestyle Awards this year. The awards, now in their fifth year, celebrate the places that make London such a great city, and we’re honoured to have been included among so many fantastic bars, restaurants and businesses.

While of course awards aren’t everything, awards as prestigious as these are a fantastic additional level of recognition for our fantastic teams who work so hard to ensure the very best possible experience for the thousands of guests who visit the bar every week.

So, if you’ve enjoyed a visit to the bar at aqua shard, savoured one or two of our carefully-crafted cocktails, loved our afternoon tea or just delighted in the view, we would very much appreciate it if you could find a few moments to cast a vote for us. Voting’s very straightforward, just click here – you don’t have to vote in every category, but be sure to tick ‘aqua shard’ under ‘London Bar of The Year’!

Thank you very much from all of us for your support!

Perfect for Sundays, our new roast chicken brunch dish

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Our Weekend Brunch, served Saturdays, Sundays and Bank Holidays from 10.30am-3.30pm, is an indulgent three-course menu offering a fantastic variety of dishes to suit every appetite – and we’re excited to announce that we’ve introduced some fantastic new choices.
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We’re back at Bermondsey Street Festival for 2015!

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This Saturday 19th September, Bermondsey Street Festival – the annual celebration of everything that’s great about the neighbourhood we’re proud to call home – returns, and we’re delighted to tell you that we’ll once again have a stall offering a taste of aqua shard outdoors!

Come along and see us in Tanner Street Park from 11am and for just £7 you’ll be able to sample a sneak preview of one of our new weekend brunch dishes, Half roasted young chicken with baked apple puree, chestnut caramel and chicken & port gravy. Or for those of you with a sweet tooth, we’ll be serving a beautiful Passionfruit posset with grapefruit Chantilly, green cardamom and oat biscuit for £5.
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Taste ‘The Icon’ by Chivas Regal at a very special dinner

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Following the success of our wine tasting dinner back in May, we’re extremely excited to be hosting our next tasting event with Chivas Regal and Royal Salute whiskies. The dinner, taking place on Monday 14th September at 7pm, will be specially hosted by Colin Scott, master blender, celebrating the launch of ‘The Icon’ by Chivas Regal in our stunning private dining room.
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Private dining at breakfast

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Our beautiful glass-walled private dining room can seat from 12 up to 22 guests for breakfast over three round tables and overlooks the Tower of London and Tower Bridge, with stunning views of the London skyline.

We have recently introduced new menus at breakfast, starting at £25 per person, making our private dining room the ideal place for larger breakfast gatherings. At breakfast you can also use AV equipment, which isn’t possible at other times, so it’s a perfect spot for a meeting, brainstorm or presentation.
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Our top tips for booking your table

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Many of the questions we’re most frequently asked are to do with making a reservation, so we thought it would be helpful to combine some of the answers into this ‘how to’ guide.
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Cornish monkfish, a treat for two!

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The popularity of our recently introduced Galician Blond beef rib for two has shown that there’s a real appetite (no pun intended) for main courses suited to sharing. With that in mind we’re excited to introduce another, new to the ‘From The Sea’ section of the a la carte menu – Cornish monkfish tail cooked in honey brown butter.
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The bar at aqua shard – it’s not just for date night!

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We were understandably delighted when Marie Claire featured the bar at aqua shard in a recent feature on the best bars in London for date night. Singling out the bar as being ‘the perfect place for breathtaking views’, not to mention ‘a few glasses of wine’, the magazine’s Josie Ayre certainly made our (date) night.
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Enjoy variety and value with our Market Lunch menu

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Join us for lunch from Monday to Friday and in addition the à la carte menu you’ll find that we also give guests the choice of a fantastic Market Lunch menu, which at £31 for two courses or £34 for three, with three choices for each course, offers both variety and value.

A new main course on the menu which proving very popular is this Sticky Longhorn beef short-rib, cooked slowly at a low temperature to give the meat great depth of flavour while also making it exceptionally tender, simply slipping off the bone!
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