Dandelyan

I had a peachy cocktail — it was good! Other half had a beer.
I liked the botanical theme — there was pine in my peach drink apparently!
Can’t say I’d be in a hurry to go back. It wasn’t mind blowing. Music and atmosphere was ok.
We were a little early for our table to the hostess advised us that we could pop up to the bar on the 12 floor to take a look at the view — it’s the Rumpus Room. Great view and nice of her to let us do that rather than hang around.
It was table service too which was great as the bar was rammed!

The people working here have charm and class which creates a great atmosphere.
The bar staff’s great enthusiasm matched their great knowledge of cocktails. If you would like to chat and hear about how the cocktails are done they are first class. Ali was great and really made us feel welcome (I asked for his permission to be in this review and he gave me it).
We were fortunate to be sitting at the main section of the bar, where the cocktail makers were making the drinks. If we had been sitting at a less central place on the bar, we would not have had the same experience and this review would not have been so good.
The décor is designer, modern, marble and wood design. Shabby chic has left the building and has been banished!
We opened with the mini champagnes we were given. We liked the look of their oak menu section went with their recommdations of cocktails.
They have natural pollen syrups they make in house, which creates some lovely and special flavours. The cocktails are very good with true and real flavours. Not lack of skill, covered up by lavish ice to mask their artificial flavours that is so prevalent in many less good places.
This place is high end and frequented by rich, slightly pushy, very posh city people, so if you do not like that thing, it is not for you. A table in a quiet corner could make this tolerable. At night it is quite dark and the music is reasonably loud, but their patrons would want nothing less.
It is mostly filled with twenty something people, but 20% of the people are at higher age group, such as people in their forties and fifties and seemed to still like it.
It was quite funny to see many city boys being in a unique cocktail bar and just asking for having a beer, or gin and tonic, which they could have had anywhere.
The younger element could have been increased by the fact that we were there at 10.30−11.30pm on a Tuesday evening.
Also being there on a quiet night also meant we probabky had a better experience, as II do not know if we would have had such a personal service on a busy night, such as a Friday or Saturday.

Apparently the bar has excellent views to St. Paul… Who cares about the views? These cocktails are amazing! It took us a while to find the bar, but it worth the wait. I am still dreaming with the PINE CONE!!! Prices are above average, but quality is much more above average. Beautiful bar, nice service… Definitely a top place with intimate ambiance. A MUST!

Went here for a special birthday treat for someone on a Sunday evening. Was fairly quiet with the majority of people obviously staying in the hotel. Great location by the Thames path watching the world go past whilst you have a few pre dinner cocktails from the inventive cocktail menu

Dandelyan is a high end cocktail bar, on the river side of the new Mondrian Hotel that opened recently on the Sea Containers building by Blackfriars Bridge. The atmosphere is quite refined, dark wood surfaces and leather couches, candles and soft lighting, it’s what you’d expect from a hotel bar.
However, it’s brilliant position and great view of the river make it a good choice if you feel like having drinks in the area but avoiding any of the more crowded pubs that are in the area.
The menu is inspired by grains, minerals, flowers and other unusual ingredients, and is beautifully presented like a botany booklet. I would recommend the floral cocktails as they tend to be more fresh and slightly on the sweeter side, while the mineral ones are a bit more full bodied and strong.
In general, while this may not be you average after work drinks haunt, it’s definitely very nice for those times you want to treat yourself to something nicer.

Service was always great here. I enjoyed the Dandelyan sours and my friends were a little more adventurous. I like the atmosphere here a lot.

Fast forward a month and they finally got their act together. Service is better, but maybe because I was one of the few there.

Went there with a small group of friends. There was quite a lot of people there but we got served pretty quickly at the bar. Then they found us a table and chairs.
The cocktails were delicious and original. Such a shame they are so pricey.
The view on the Thames is great but I thought that the huge windows were working both ways: great views on the outside and also showing off being inside, which I thought was a bit weird (but that feeling may be due to the kind of people sitting by the windows)