Discreetly signed and lying in a basement under the more visible Café City (see Snack), the ALZ Club has been serving up cocktails and kalyans (shisha pipes) for a couple of years now. The padded leather wall panels, mood lighting, deep velvet sofas and glasstopped tables with leather coasters give it a bit of a Caucasian gentleman’s club feel, while the backlit city skyline over the windows lend a sophisticated edge – as well as, Vegas-like, making it impossible to note much in the way of the passage of time. The cocktails are good here, but it is manager Eldar’s kalyans fashioned out of outsized vegetables that are the real draw. Open til late, ALZ attracts a mixed crowd from twenty-somethings through to the odd stray suit, and is a great place to come for a quiet drink – or smoke – away from the madding crowd.