Experimental Cocktail Club Chinatown

You're ducking down into a dimly lit basement on Gerrard Street, that slightly frayed stretch of Soho where the neon signs flicker and the smell of five different cuisines mingles in the air. The Experimental Cocktail Club has that deliberately understated entrance—no signage shouting about it, just a dark doorway that makes you feel like you've stumbled onto something proper. Inside, it's intimate and moody, all low ceilings and warm lighting, with bartenders who take their craft seriously without the insufferable showboating. They'll build you something unusual—not a gimped-up Instagrammable mess, but a genuinely interesting drink based on what you actually want to drink.