The Bath Gin Bar — Restaurant in Bath

“Predatory Pete” makes this establishment dangerous. If you have a daughter; wife, sister or girlfriend, you should know that there are facilitators NOT ADEQUATELY INTERVENING when they are aware of predatory behaviour in this venue. I do not care how “important in the Bath community” this man is; his behaviour needs to be called out. Our group (note: all women; some drunk, others not) visited this Gin Bar and, after ordering a round of drinks and taking a seat, were interrupted by the self-declared “Gin Bar owner, Pete”, who - during some initially open, business-related, and albeit flattering and persuasive chit-chat - instantly began awkwardly overly-leaning in and telling one of our group she was “remarkably beautiful”, “like an actress of old”; quickly laddering up to the notion that she “should give him a kiss” and that, “as a business owner” she should take his contact and pander to his overly-invasive advances. NOT what we came to the bar for. After several rounds of uncomfortable comments - *including a full introduction to a secondary younger Gin Bar team member called Benedict - who flatly arrived, told us he was “not involved”, said Pete was “not to be trusted” then LEFT the building mid-conversation without further explanation – further alarm bells starting to ring.. The older man, Pete, then returned to ascertain our position at the table, as if looking for verification that Benedict had sold him in to us, and continued to make uncomfortable comments to our colleague before we felt it was not viable to take any more and we all collectively stood up at the table and left the establishment, mid-drink, somehow to his disbelief. As we stood along the same road and called respective taxis home, ‘Pete’ then walked along the same street to The Raven public house -where he was welcomed by four young men (some who described themselves as ex-Raven employees), all stood drinking at the door. After ushering him inside, two members of our group - unnerved by the situation that had just played out - walked back along the street and initiated a conversation at the Raven’s door, largely to enquire if this character was indeed “a business owner” or not. Three of the four men went on to freely admit, “ah yeah Pete is a character”; “he is ‘just like that’”, “he’s important”, and “we know but we don’t say anything as everyone just ‘knows’”. We don’t even care about the vibe or success of the Gin Bar. Or The Raven’s. We care about the women who enter bars like this in Bath (and all across the South West) who - for whatever reason, be it inebriation or insecurity - do not stand up to potentially predatory behaviour like this when they are confronted by it; women who end up being cuddled, kissed, and groped by absolute strangers because they - and no-one else - calls out that fact that THIS IS WEIRD AND WRONG. The three men at The Raven even said they agreed, but we left the scene feeling that this would be laughed off as just a case of someone unfortunately doing “what they are known for” and therefore highlighting a complaint like this would just be left to slide - allowing others to feel uncomfortable and even be vulnerable in future. Not acting when you see this stuff happen only facilitates it happening again - and potentially worse. Call it out. Every time. Full Jimmy Saville...

This place is lovely, the cocktails are unique and the selection of gin is above average. The atmosphere is great and the bar staff are fantastic, we even invented a new cocktail together! However…. Whilst quietly enjoying our cocktails the owner (we assume) had had one too many of his own cocktails. What was amusing at first quickly turned pretty annoying. He’s rude, obnoxious and stands way too close for my liking, most likely because he can’t stand upright. He found it incredulous that I, a woman, could potentially tell him something about gin that he didn’t know. The worst part of the night was when he made one of his bar staff cry. Not sure what he said but he should not be allowed to treat his staff like that. They were so embarrassed and it clearly wasn’t the first time he’d gotten high on his own supply. Guys, you do a great job and you shouldn’t have to put up with the old goat. Tell him to retire and leave the management to you. You can clearly handle it! I’d definitely go back next time I’m in Bath and hopefully it’ll be under...

I went on the gin tour to celebrate my brother's 25 birthday and it was a great experience.

I admit when George first started talking, there was a brief moment when I thought that the tour would be doomed but after few minutes I realised his pauses and red bull jokes was actually the work of a comedic masterclass, only empowered by the straight quips of his pirate themed companion.

The gin drinks were all extremely nice, we tried three drinks at the tour. Our group really enjoyed the Slough gin at the end but we all left feeling really positive about everything that we tried with a new appreciation of gin.

George did a great job of keeping us all entertained, getting the group talking, answering questions and running us through some of the distillery/gins history. It will be definitely be an experience we will remember because of the fun we had.

Would recommend it to anyone who wants to enjoy an afternoon experience followed by some drinks afterwards. We will look forward to visiting the store again during the gin fair or...