Pizza and cocktails at Viva Aviv

This time, Pippa, Mel and I decided a Saturday night gossip was in order and so we caught the boat, and then another boat to Viva Aviv. It's a relatively new bar-restaurant in River City. The decor is pretty cool (I stole this photo from their fb page) with pulleys and chains hanging from the ceiling and the bar and walls made of crates. 

We ordered a few cocktails to start us off, and were very impressed. If there's one thing they do well here, it's cocktails. Pippa had a Cuban Smuggler, which looked ace! The whole thing came in a small ice bucket, topped up with crushed ice. The drink was made then poured into a glass coke bottle, which you poured yourself into a little shot glass garnished with some lime. Talk about fancy! I had a long island iced tea, which was very good and Mel had a Mangoes Nuts which was garnished with some dried orange. Needless to say, we all ordered another! Cocktails were about 300B each (can't quite remember) but were worth it for the show and experience. We sat on tall bar stools at a high table and watched the bar man make them too. 

Mangoes Nuts, Cuban Smuggler and a Long Island Iced Tea

The menu is quite limited at the moment as they're still quite new. In the end we all ordered pizzas (because we saw someone else's and it looked good!). I had the Boeuf et Bleu (250B). It had a gorgeous pizza base, lovely tender beef, caramalised onions but waaaay too much blue cheese. It was almost fruity! Ok for a few slices, but pretty rich. All the pizzas were served on two wooden boards, which was quirky.

Boeuf et bleu

Mel had the I Foccacia Name (225B) which was hand made foccacia bread topped with tomato slices and green and black olives. It was nice, but needed cheeeeese! 

I Foccacia Name

Pippa had the Tom Ka Gai pizza (225B) which had another gorgeous handmade base but was topped with a Thai style coconut and chicken sauce. Very tasty.

Tom Ka Gai Pizza

After all that bread and carbs, I felt the need for...more bread and carbs so we ordered the Rocky Road Pizza (225B) from the dessert menu. It was a Nutella covered, pizza base topped with chocolate pieces, biscuit crumbs and marshmallows. Nice, but I think I'll stick to my savoury pizzas! As you can see, I was off the cocktails and on the pot of tea by now...what a crazy Saturday night! 

It was a lovely night with lovely company. A great place for cocktails and perhaps next time, I'd try one of their sharing platters.

7/10 (cocktails are a 10/10 though!).

As an extra little note...I've heard there is an even more exciting venue opening at River City in the next few months, keep your eyes peeled...can't wait! :D