Be At One - Battersea Rise — Restaurant in London

Inside the bar: Music is okay, but the staff kept banging a metallic part of the counter making the noise unbearable. Having said that, the staff was polite, friendly and promoting a party vibe. The toilets could do with a bit more toilet roll. The crowd was quite lively, people in their late teens/early 20s. Most were drunk, but not to the point of being dangerous or too annoying. They don't offer ciders, which I found a bit weird.

Outside the bar/smoking area: If you're a woman, don't smoke outside the venue alone. I got kicked by someone who had tried to enter the bar multiple times prior to kicking me and he got rejected. I told security, and pointed towards the guy (he was trying to enter the bar next door by that point). Security didn't say or do much. But, also not sure what they could have done differently. Then, another guy grabbed me by the shoulders. I shouted at him and he tried to start something, but then, walked away.

My experience was definitely spoiled by these two men. I understand that possibly this is not a fault of the venue, but I also think they should have an actual smoking area, rather having people smoke on the street. E.g. use some sort of divider and have a security member there, as the crowd trying to get inside or walking on that street was dangerous and severely intoxicated.

Edit: Thank you for the lovely and professional response. That is truly appreciated and I'm changing my rating from 3 stars to 4, because of how you...

I’d give it zero if I could. DISGUSTING venue that made me drink ANTS.

I went there on a night out with a few friends. Ordered a drink and noticed something on my ice, I assumed it was fruit remains. I carried on drinking and noticed a few things in my drink, pulled out my straw to poke it and there were DEAD ANTS all stuck to my straw, and multiple dead ants in my drink.

I’ve gone to the bar to complain about this and say I wanted a whole refund for all of our drinks that we’d just ordered (our drinks were untouched at this point) and said I wanted to leave the bar in general as I felt sick and was disgusted. They refused to refund the drinks, and I had to sit uncomfortably in a venue that had just made me drink ANTS because we’d spent all our money in there. They didn’t even try to see what the problem was or how these ants had ended up dead in my drink.

I then emailed head office, MONTHS later and no one has got back to me.

To top it off I commented on their socials, guess what, ALL MY COMMENTS WERE DELETED.

This establishment and company couldn’t get any worse. I’ve spoken to people and as soon as they heard which be at one they were they all had their own story on how disgusting that place is. Hope it gets shut down and I will continue posting these reviews until someone gets back to me.

As I said on social media you can delete my comments on Instagram but you CANNOT delete Google reviews,...

A bar is only as good as it's bar staff and this one has one of the best. Dropping of for a final cocktail in Happy Hour after meeting a friend in the area I cam across the female bartender Hari.

As most readers know having worked in the industry and drunk at the best cocktail bars in Central London my knowlegde of the industry is very good indeed.

After making me a very decent Espresso Martini, we conversed and it was her service that shone though, like sunshine through a diamond.

Anybody who knows as much, or evern more than me about a subject inspires. As a master bartender her knowledge of the history of cocktails was enlightening (My London cocktails I know, but had no idea of the history of the Margeritta).

The best bar tenders are affable, great conversationalist and make you feel like you've entered a bar everyday even if you've never visited before.

Hari did just that, and if you don't know, which I didn't until she told me, this is the original Be At One opened in 1998.

Go, learn, have a classic cockatil and feel like you're a...