Condé Nast Traveller's choice: On Lavelle Road, Spirit Forward is a low-lit cocktail temple kitted with chrome, leather, smoky glass, and serious drinks.
Why people go
Bartenders garnish and shake cocktails like the Mil.f & Cookies whiskey punch and Shoot the Gringo mezcal mix with the confidence of pros who’ve done this a thousand times.
Menu
Food
2 pages
Bar
4 pages
Ratings & reviews
4.1
Based on 46 ratings
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4.4Ambience
4.0Food
4.2Service
17 reviews
Uma D
5 months ago
5.0
The food was excellent and the cocktails as well. And it really felt tucked away and intimate
Tanuj Mahajan
1 year ago
5.0
Worth the interstellar drive from bellandur to blr city. Fabulous cocktails
Rajiv
8 months ago
4.0
Good place to unwind. Well they didn’t have some ingredients that goes in making of cocktails which were on their menu I wanted try. Had to settle for others . Must say their service and cleanliness on the bar table is exceptional. The spaghetti was bad but amazing veg starters.
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Pranave Nanda
10 months ago
4.0
Excellent cocktails, and some hits + misses with the food. Loved the 3 Gin Vesper Martini and the Mil.f cocktail. They ran a special one called Desert bloom which had Bombay Sapphire as the base, and it was fab! Great ambience and service too!
ria mukherjee
1 year ago
3.0
I was pretty excited to try this place but the experience has been underwhelming, we tried southern star and umami old fashioned which were decent, but not great! The bar bites were good though, loved the pork belly. They messed the bill which i did not expect from a bar so highly rated, by adding an extra espresso martini we didn't order. Although corrected after pointing out, it left a sour taste in my mouth. would recommend soka and muro over this place!
priya
8 months ago
3.0
I visited last night and enjoyed the experience. The cocktails were great, and it's a good spot overall. However, I felt the food could use some improvement. The chicken and crab dishes were cooked so similarly that I couldn't tell them apart. It was a shame to sit at the bar and have no interaction with the bartenders, especially since a good bar experience often comes from that conversation.
Siddharth Singh
3 months ago
3.0
Their drink Scarface really din’t work for me. We had to wait outside in the smoking room the entire time as the place is dingy and tables were occupied. It’s on the ground floor with no view and limited vibe. Only plus was that the staff was courteous.
Harshad Purandare
1 year ago
1.0
This place is a bit of a sham. They serve pre-made cocktails, you order and they will bring one right away from the fridge/some other place in 30 secs. The cocktails are insanely mild and watery, small portion size. They charge a lot but make very mediocre cocktails and you feel cheated for paying. Food is average and feels like it is made mechanically and not with love. Their service is decent, the ambience is nice. It doesn't live up to the true 'speakeasy' culture. Feels like the top 40-50 rating is not genuine. I hope they fix these concerns.
Piyush
11 months ago
1.0
Our slot was 7pm to 9pm. They started clearing the table at 8:30 and asked us to leave. More than half the bar was empty. Highly overpriced.
Akshay
10 months ago
1.0
Highly over rated place. Cocktails are awful, just filled with sugar syrup absolutely no balance of flavours. Service is average.