Coupette

COUPETTE – Calvados – Cidre – Cocktails

http://www.coupette.co.uk

COUPETTE – Calvados – Cidre – Cocktails

Coupette | A Slick French Cocktail Bar and Restaurant in Bethnal ...

But somehow, this one can also hold a ream of cocktails, a wine cellar, a Champagne collection, a smorgasbord of French regional cuisine and a Full French Breakfast.

Those bartenders are working behind a beautiful bar covered entirely in 10p pieces in different states of wear – perfectly complementing the bare brick walls, and art deco lighting – and it’s from behind that bar that they’ll be making, THE DRINKS And the Lyonnaise connection is particularly fitting here, as the place focuses on bringing French drinks into the spotlight (especially at the bi-monthly tasting nights known as the Calvados Club, when producers and growers will fly over from France to personally guide you through these regional gems).

They’ve also got an impressively selected wine list alongside a fleet of French ciders.

Then there’s, THE FOOD First off, there’s literally an entire menu devoted to the mighty croque monsieur, as well as larger, classically French dishes like confit duck leg and chicken liver parfait, and boards of cheese and charcuterie.

And for the truly ravenous, there’s a Full French breakfast on weekends; comprising smoked eel, truffled scrambled eggs, boudin noir, Lyonnaise onions and oven-baked eggs.

Coupette in Bethnal Green sees ex-Savoy bartender bring a French ...

Coupette will have a distinctly French accent, focusing on regional liqueurs London's booming bar scene has another hot new opening on the way.

Coupette sees Chris Moore, former head bartender at the Savoy's Beaufort Bar, branch out on his own.

The bar, which is taking over the former Albion pub on Bethnal Green Road, is going to showcase all manner of artisanal regional French gems.

For food, expect a similarly Francophile treatment including a whole section dedicated to croque monsieurs - including one with truffled creamed leeks and confit salmon and another with Merguez sausage & piperade.Also on that list is: Alongside those, there will be charcuterie, terrines, salmon rillettes and beef tartare as well as regional cheese, sourced from producers in the local London area and imported from France.

That brunch adds the epic-sounding "Full French" breakfast with local sausages, oven-baked eggs, confit tomato, Lyonnaise onions, boudin noir as well as truffle scrambled eggs with smoked eel.

Coupette London Bethnal Green: Bar Review - olive magazine

Coupette in a nutshell: Coupette is a cool cocktail bar that sells itself as “inspired by France but proudly local” (to east London, that is).

Nearest tube: Bethnal Green This is a super cool drinking den, where banter over the bar (made from French centimes) is encouraged.

There’s a soundtrack of hip hop, that has taken over jazz as the cocktail bar genre of choice over the last few years, and punters let loose as the evening unfolds, moving from high tables to mingle in with other cocktail lovers and choose spirits from the brick wall behind the bar.

Chris Moore, the bar’s founder, has put together an illustrated cocktail list that forms an ode to six free-spirited French icons, from architects to abstract artists.

There’s also a wine list dedicated solely to French producers.

Straight Up: Coupette, Bethnal Green

As the creatives spread out from their Shoreditch homeland, Bethnal Green is starting to boast its fair share of hipster bars, and the addition of the newly opened Coupette is no exception.

Not that its edgy decor lacks in sophistication.

Located in a 160-year-old building with exposed bricks behind the bar and utilitarian metal pendant lighting, you could call the decor industrial chic, although the interior is subtly brushed with the Gallic theme that enhances the cocktail list, with the handcrafted bar top being coated in vintage 10-Franc coins.

Coupette | Bars and pubs in Bethnal Green, London

A tres chic bar with a subtle French lean has just arrived in Bethnal Green to bolster one of the capital’s best areas for drinking.

Instead, there’s a hip hop soundtrack (a shame that none of it’s French, mind) and a very cool crowd already swarming at the bar who are seemingly all friends with a staff of industry experts.

Each page of the drinks list offers an illustration of a French icon and a chunk of cocktails which fit that personality.

Calvados (a French apple brandy) features heavily.

If they’re anywhere near as good as those drinks, east London waistlines could be in trouble.