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.

My Mare Lady (£11)

We ummed and ahhed over whether to tell you what is in this cocktail, because once you know, you know. Do you want to know? Like: it’s gin, obviously. And peaches. It’s sort of more fun not to know not to know the rest. Are you sure you want to know? OK: we printed the secret ingredient in a small font, upside-down, at the top of the back of the menu. But if you want to guess before you check, that’s more fun: a peach gin sour with a summery savoury unguessable haze going through it. Go on! Sip the mystery!

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. 

Tierra Rojo (£12)

A Red Hook (think a bitter Manhattan) retooled with sweet hibiscus, bitter-sweet vermouth and El Jimador Anejo tequila for something that’s sandy and fruity, balanced and juicy, all at he same time. An American classic, remade with Mexican parts: it’s essentially a cocktail engineered in a lab to piss Donald Trump off

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. 

CARDAMOM & MISO SALTED CARAMEL  ESPRESSO MARTINI (£11)

Don’t really think I need to write anything here. You get it. 

Peg Leg (£12)

It’s summer: you’re crouching down to light a little disposable Bar-B-Q on a patch of grass you shouldn’t technically be doing that on; picnic blankets and a light evening wind that’s slightly more forceful than you were expecting; welts of sunburn, forgetting to drink any water, cracking a pair of sunglasses in half with your ass. This drink is all of that that: the smoke-is-coming taste of just-lit coals from the Quiquiriqui mescal, the leafy greenness of the fig leaf soda and celery bitters, and a sweet-sticky slice of orgeat for dessert. Now when will these sausages cook? 

Tomato Cosmo (£12) 

You know that summer when you went a bit weird and tried to grow tomatoes out of a big sack of soil you kept out on a sunless balcony? And every time you gave the tomatoes plant food you secretly wondered what it might taste like? Just a swig, couldn’t hurt, could it? Just… just a sip? Well, yes, it really could. This tastes like how you thought that would taste, but is far less likely to kill you. 

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, Strawberry 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