Passan's Tea Room & Cocktail Lounge

You'll do a double-take walking past this place – the name promises tea and scones, but the dark windows and moody lighting suggest something altogether more intriguing. Step inside and you'll find yourself in what feels like a 1920s speakeasy that happens to serve a cracking afternoon tea alongside some of the most inventive cocktails in the city centre. The concept shouldn't work, but it absolutely does. By day, you're settling into plush velvet chairs for proper loose-leaf tea and delicate sandwiches. Come evening, the same space transforms into an intimate cocktail den where the bartenders know their way around both a teapot and a shaker. The drinks menu reads like a love letter to the prohibition era, with house-made syrups and bitters that'll make you forget about whatever chain bar you were considering instead.