Breaking Bad bar returns to London

A pop-up bar inspired by hit US television series Breaking Bad is set to return to London this month, with plans to open a permanent site.

Cook up some cocktails on the Breaking Bad RV, with the pop-up returning to London this summer

The bar, called ABQ, will return on 5 August, and is set to attract Londoners on a more permanent basis.

The pop-up opened its doors in Hackney in July 2015 and enticed more than 65,000 cocktail fans for a molecular drinking experience.

Based in an RV truck, the bar allows 28 ‘cooks’ in at one time to make cocktails from a ‘manual’, while wearing a Walter White meth-making suit.

The regularly sold-out pop-up is to become a permanent bar later this year although ABQ London – run by Seb Lyall, founder of Lollipop – is still raising funds to secure a site.

Last year the bar extended its three-month run in London after more than 42,000 people applied for tickets.

“Our community requested us to bring the bar back to London. How can we say no to them? No doubt ABQ is one of the most interesting and fun projects we have built in the last few years,” said Lyall.

New cocktails include Saul’s C2H6O, a semi-frozen cocktail with rum, pink peppercorn and rose hip, served with a candy solution garnish and crystalised petals of an edible violet and Blue Flynn, a rum-based cocktail infused with strawberry.

The Breaking Bad pop-up is back after a three-month long stint in Paris where there was a 22,000-long waiting list to enter the bar.

ABQ London will run Wednesdays to Sundays from 5 August.

Tickets cost £30, which includes two hours in the RV, two cocktails to cook and three to drink.

Earlier this year, Lollipop – the firm behind ABQ – announced it would open its “first” naked restaurant this summer.