Daisy

Cocktails

Champagne Daiquiri (£10.50) 

Done it, guys. Done it. Figured out how to make champagne tastier, somehow. First we throw the champagne out entirely, recreate the flavour profile with science and combine it with Havana 7 rum. The champagne industry is on the phone. ‘Please,’ it is saying, please stop. You’ve changed the game. We’re on our knees, here’. No. We refuse to stop.

Square Miel (£12)
A modern update on a classic from the Every Cloud days back in Hackney: Beefeater gin, fino sherry, tarragon-infused honey, and a little bit of lemon juice in there for balance. This is the cocktail other cocktail bartenders order and start looking at the glass and going, “Hmm”. So decide if you want to be doing that sort of thing in public before ordering. Lads in braces might come up to you and say, “It does something really interesting, doesn’t it?”

A Lychee Story (£10.50)

A Daisy classic: a lychee and Thai basil spritz that hits the same off-dry sweet spot a good Reisling does, but. You know. With way more lychee flavour, obviously. Incredibly thirst-quenching: for the ideal drinking experience, try and order one around sunset. 

Lady Marmalade (£11)

Kind of drink you’re slightly nervous that Christina Aguilera will burst in half way through, yelling at you. She’s so close now, Christina Aguilera: you can smell her branded perfume. God. God, she’s so loud, isn’t she? And so close. Anyway: FEW Rye, Orange Bitters  & marsala wine combine for a short, zesty and punchy sour.

Pisco Inferno (£11)

Are you the person who just scans cocktail menus for the ‘Pisco Sour’? Yeah, hiya. Been expecting you. This is the Pisco Sour, and it’s great: geranium leaf syrup for a floral—bitter undertone to the sweetness, bit foamy, comes with a flying saucer sweet on top. One day you’ll try another cocktail! You will! Just not today. 

Take Another Little Miso My Heart (£11)

 
An important part of the drink-devising process here at Daisy is asking a simple question: how tarty is this cocktail? Sadly, this is our first ever zero on the Tart-o-Meter. It’s just a quietly, disappointingly, richly sophisticated pina colada with savoury notes of miso. If you want to have a good time, order this. If you want to take your bra off in a very loud way, perhaps order something else.

Pink Panther (£12)

Unexpected smoke is never normally a good thing: that pizza you left in the oven when you were drunk, remember, and it turned into a big black frisbee, and all your housemates laughed at you (“Oi don’t let him have a pizza!” – Matt, mate, it’s been seven years). Here, however, good: deep smoky mezcal over floral Turkish Delight, without anyone having to have a very chilling conversation about why the smoke alarm didn’t go off.

Risky Mac (£12) 

Let’s go to Japan. You ever been to Japan? Wildest place on earth. They have something called the Robot Restaurant there that is like having an especially futuristic panic attack. Incredibly clean. Everyone crosses the road very respectfully. Let’s go to Japan, with this drink: Ginger cordial, pickled ginger, mirin, roasted coconut water and Benriach 10yr Scotch combine for something sort of spicy, kind of sour, and definitely boozy.

Zest In Show (£12) 

American children are always making lemonade, aren’t they. Not us. Why is that? Sort of cultural thing, I guess. Those big, achingly expansive suburbs. Cute little sign with the ‘S’ drawn backwards. And you always think, about American children’s suburban lemonade: how refreshing can it really be, really? Well: we got a big crate of Meyer lemons, juiced them with a bit of yuzu, and threw mandarin brandy in there. So you can sort of find out. 

Beeswax Sazerac (£15.5) 

 You remember your first fancy candle, don’t you. We all do. “Am I really going to spend £65 — £65! — on a candle?” Stood in Liberty for ages just holding it. Imagining your life with it. Only lighting in 30-minute increments. Make it last a full year. And then, as you watched the flame flicker out in the bottom, you knew: you’re a fancy candle person now. This is the cocktail version of that. No going back to cocktails without beeswax in them, after this!

HVT (£3.50 NA)

Sweet, sharp, crisp. No, we’re not describing a premium coleslaw. It’s a drink. Although: kind of in the mood for coleslaw now. Local honey with a splash of muscatel vinegar, cucumber ribbons and tonic. 

Tequila Con Verdita (£4 / 3 for £10)

Two shots: one a perfect, Whole Foods-style green drink, and then a single measure of good tequila. It’s very ‘Gwyneth Paltrow smoking one cigarette a week’, if that makes sense. 

Martiny (£5)

We extremely voided the warranty on what lawyers insist we call a ‘branded herb-based liqueur machine’ to pump out teeny tiny, ice-cold, oyster shell infused tequila martinis. 

House Cordials (£3..50/£7.50)

Our house cordials, available as a highball (with soda) or gimlet (with NA gin) – with Hay, Mango or Citrus cordials

Food

Snake Oil BBQ are no longer resident at Daisy.

Sample Menu

Cacio e Pepe fries (vg) £5

Deep fried Babybel / pickled onion puree / ‘bacon’ powder (v) £6

Onion bhajis / Madras mayo / coriander (v/vg) £8

Homemade flatbread / muhammara (vg) £7.50

Courgette / Blue Cheese / Herb Oil / Lettuce (v) £6

Anchovies / whipped puttanesca butter / toast £10

Tempura broccoli / smoked cashew / black bean & chilli (vg) £12

Hash brown chaat (v) £12

Korean chicken thighs / sesame and yuzu mayo £12