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Delhi’s PCO opens omakase cocktail space
Speakeasy bar Pass Code Only (PCO) in New Delhi has launched The Director’s Room, a new cocktail space that will offer ‘immersive and personalised mixology’.
Inspired by the Japanese concept of omakase, meaning “I’ll leave it up to you”, the bar will see PCO’s mixologists create bespoke cocktails for guests, based on a series of interactive clues, such as choosing a scent, a visual from postcards of dream getaways, a famous movie scene or a flavour from a fruit basket.
The bar-within-a-bar can seat 12 guests and can be reserved for private parties.
The launch coincides with the main bar’s 12th anniversary and new cocktail menu, The Forbidden, which is inspired by the Prohibition era and uses ‘forbidden’ ingredients. Drinks include the Opium Den, which is based around poppy seeds – which are banned in some countries due to their relation to opium – alongside gin, raspberry tea, vetiver distillate, pine distillate, blackcurrant, lime and saline.
Inspired by the banning of bubblegum in Singapore, A Sticky Mess blends vodka, bubblegum distillate, ‘gravity-filtered’ watermelon, miso, agave syrup, banana liqueur and clear lime; while Crack the Egg alludes to the banning of Kinder Eggs, and blends the candy’s chocolate with whiskey, cold brew, banana and Parmesan cheese.
PCO has a hidden entrance, with guests required to enter a weekly changing secret code into a phone booth.
Earlier this year, New Delhi also welcomed a new cocktail bar called The Brook from the Sidecar team.
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