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August 20 2026

The Kraken’s Living Relic: Terrarium MasterClass at The Rhum Tavern

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London’s only pirate-themed bar, The Rhum Tavern has teamed up with London Terrariums to bring you a one-of-a-kind masterclass where you can create your very own terrarium inside a Kraken Rum bottle.

Perfect activity for the Spooky Season!

Follow the Kraken Shipwreck Legend

Terrarium Masterclass at The Rhum Tavern London

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The Kraken’s Living Relic is not an ordinary terrarium masterclass.

It follows a dark maritime folklore, serves two Kraken Rum drinks specially crafted for the event and you will go through the full process of terrarium making under the guidance of a master terrarium maker.

All you have to bring is your high spirit and love for dark maritime tales.

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Everything else is provided: the gravel, the moss, the decorative stones, the plants, all the professional equipment, and an empty Kraken Rum bottle – of course.

Here’s the story:

Legend has it that a merchant trading ship carrying barrels of spiced rum and exotic spices from the Caribbean, was ferociously attacked by a giant sea monster, the Kraken.

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The ship was lost, but miraculously a few barrels survived stained black by the Kraken’s ink. When The Inferno’s crew recovered those floating barrels from the sea, they discovered something peculiar: encrusted with rare deep-sea moss and mysterious flora from the Kraken’s realm, the barrels had become vessels of life.

To celebrate that unexpected life born from darkness, The Rhum Tavern decided to honour the Kraken with one-of-a-kind Kraken Rum Terrarium Masterclasses.

Board London’s only tavern that looks like a 17^th century pirate ship, walk on the creaky wooden floor, and be part of the legend!

Kraken Rum Terrarium MasterClass

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The experience begins with an introduction and the history of the science of terrariums.

It all started with Victorian plant hunters who wanted to keep the rare mysterious plants alive they discovered during their voyages to show them and study them in their homeland.

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Guests will be guided step-by-step through the creation process of their miniature world. All the materials, plants, moss, gravel, decorative stones, tools and equipment are provided.

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Once finished, your terrarium will become a self-sustaining miniature world. You’ll also receive care guidance to keep your terrarium live a long and healthy life.

Your ticket also includes two Kraken cocktails from an exclusive menu, created specifically for this event.

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One is a called The Black Wake, which is a smooth blend of coffee-roasted Kraken rum and cold brew.

The Ruby Depth Kraken combines spiced rum with cherry, vanilla and citrus, while the Cocoa Tempest is a refreshing mix of chocolate-washed rum and orange soda.

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You’ll have two of these cocktails. If you wish to try all the cocktails on the menu, you can order them for £10 each.

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Plus, everyone leaves with a beautiful tote bag and a little surprise Kraken gift!

Perfect activity for the Spooky Season!

Practical Info

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Address

The Rhum Tavern | 48 Margaret St, London W1W 8SE

(A 5-minute walk from Oxford Circus station | Victoria, Central and Bakerloo lines)

Tickets

Book your ticket with Fever

Cosplay welcome!

Opening Times

The Kraken’s Living Relic: Terrarium MasterClass is held once in a month starting at 6:30pm. Please, check dates when booking on Fever as dates are different in each month.

The Rhum Tavern’s opening times:

Mon – Wed: 5pm – 12am

Thu – Sat: 5pm – 1am

Sun: 5pm – 12am

Ready for your next adventure? Honour the past, celebrate the present and dream about the future. Water Lantern Festival is returning to London this September at two different locations: Danson Park and Clapham Common.

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April 19 2025

Pirates – New Exhibition at National Maritime Museum

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Ahoy Mateys! This new exhibition at National Maritime Museum dives deep into the perception of piracy in popular culture and why it still fascinates us today, while exploring the global history of piracy, including notorious pirates like Edward ‘Blackbeard’ Teach, William Kidd and Anne Bonny.

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‘𝕻𝖎𝖗𝖆𝖙𝖊𝖘’ 𝙚𝙭𝙝𝙞𝙗𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 – 𝙉𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙈𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚 𝙈𝙪𝙨𝙚𝙪𝙢 ☠️ [BLOG POST IN BIO] Ahoy Mateys! 🏴‍☠️ This new exhibition at National Maritime Museum dives deep into the perception of piracy in popular culture and why it still fascinates us today. It’s exploring the global history of piracy, including notorious pirates like Edward ‘Blackbeard’ Teach, William Kidd and Anne Bonny. #pirates #piratesofthecaribbean #pirate #pirateslife #blackbeard #captainkidd #tortuga #CapCut

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Pirates – Myths and Reality

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What comes into your mind when you hear the word: ‘pirate’? Skull and crossbones? Walking the plank? Eyepatch? Buried treasure?

A new exhibition opened at National Maritime Museum to explore the global history of piracy and how fiction has shaped our perception of it through the ages.

The Flying Dutchman

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‘Pirates’ exhibition follows the history of piracy around the globe from the China Sea to the Caribbean and explores the fascinating lives of pirates and their notorious deeds by exploring real-life figures, including Edward ‘Blackbeard’ Teach, Captain William Kidd, Anne Bonny and Bartholomew ‘Black Bart’ Roberts, just to name a few.

The exhibition discusses classic pirate stereotypes that actually have historical basis while delving into the world of fiction, such as novels, films and comics.

Fact or Fiction?

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The novel ‘Treasure Island’ by Robert Louis Stevenson is one of the best examples how fiction can shape people’s perception about piracy.

The novel depicts pirates as they bury their treasures and draw a map to find it later, they keep talking parrots as pets, and some of them have wooden legs or eye patches.

Walt Disney’s Technicolour launched ‘Treasure Island’ as their first live action film in 1950. In the film, Long John Silver was played by Robert Newton who had a West Country accent which has become synonymous with how British pirates talked.

18^th century newspapers often wrote about pirate adventures and trials and journalists liked exaggerating the stories to make pirates appear more violent and their deeds more horrible.

As people at that time were eager to learn the grisly details of the latest pirate stories, journalists and illustrators happily served this to increase sales.

Replica of Captain James Hook’s costume

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How much, however, is true from those stories? Did pirates really bury their treasures? Did they really have Pirate Code? Did they make people walk the plank? And was the infamous skull and crossbones pirate flag real?

‘Pirates’ exhibition brings together fiction and reality with an amazing collection of over 200 remarkable objects displayed, including some from National Archives, V&A and BFI.

The Golden Age of Piracy

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The ‘golden age’ of piracy was actually a short period of time in history. It started in the 1680s and ended with the death of Bartholomew ‘Black Bart’ Roberts in 1722.

17^th-century coin

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The ‘golden age’ of piracy is coincident with the expansion of British colonisation activity as the volume of merchant ships significantly increased between the European and the American continent. The ships were packed with valuable goods and treasures being an irresistible temptation for pirates.

Replica of a gibbet cage. Captain Kidd was executed for piracy in 1701 and was hanged in a cage like this at Execution Dock, London

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Although, the risk was very high of being a pirate, the potential rewards were far greater than any other forms of work at sea or land. It was not uncommon that the crew of captured ships decided to join the pirates.

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However, due to the high risk of violent punishment, most of the pirates quit after a few years.

The most successful pirate was Bartholomew Roberts ‘Black Bart’ who successfully attacked over 400 vessels during his career. He was killed by Captain Chaloner Ogle of the Royal Navy on the 10^th February 1722. Black Bart’s crew reportedly celebrated capturing a ship the night before and struggled with heavy hungover when Captain Ogle attacked their ship.

Black Bart – who usually preferred to celebrate with tea over Rum or liquor – decided to fight. Captain Ogle shot Black Bart’s ship with anti-personal weapons. Some of that struck Roberts’ neck and tore out his throat killing him instantly. That marked the beginning of the end of the ‘golden age’ of piracy.

Original sentence to death against fifteen crew members of Bartholomew ‘Black Bart’ Roberts

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After that incident pirates became hunted down and faced the most violent punishments.

Execution Dock on River Thames, for example earned its name by becoming the scene where pirates were hanged or put into gibbet cages as grisly warning to the public. Gibbets and gibbet cages were lined all the way long on the river bank. Captain William Kidd was also executed there on 23^rd May 1701.

Orlando Bloom’s Costume from Pirates of the Caribbean and Other Treasures

Orlando Bloom’s costume from the Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

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The are over 200 objects on display, including the costume Orlando Bloom wore during the filming of ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl’.

Other highlights:

The Pirate Hunter’s Cup

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This cup is once owned by Captain Chaloner Ogle who dramatically cut short Bartholomew Roberts’ criminal career and ended the ‘golden age’ of piracy.

The cup is carved from a coconut shell, beautifully decorated, and set within a silver mount.

A General History of Pyrates

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Written by Captain Charles Johnson, ‘A General History of Pyrates’ – although its accuracy is doubtful – is a very important historical source for writers and filmmakers even today.

The book was published in 1724 and based on trial records, interviews with former pirates and newspaper reports.

Logbook Record about the Fate of Blackbeard

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Lieutenant Robert Maynard was commanding a warship, called Pearl in November 1718 when he engaged Edward ‘Blackbeard’ Teach in battle. The fight was fierce and violent. Blackbeard eventually was captured and beheaded. His head was displayed for years on a stake at Chesapeake Bay in Virginia.

Map with Tortuga Island

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The Caribbean waters were very appealing to pirates. Partly because there were many trading ships to attack, and partly because there were many hiding places away from the authorities.

During the 17^th century the island of Tortuga – many of us know from Pirates of the Caribbean films – became the stronghold for pirates.

Davy Jones’s Locker

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‘Davy Jones’s Locker’ is a painting by William Lionel Wyllie. It features the ghostly outline of a wrecked ship in the distance and human remains and a big rusty anchor resting on the bed of the ocean along with jewels.

The painting perfectly describes the mysterious world of Davy Jones who – according to tales of sailors – ruled the seas and presided over all the evil spirits of the deep.

Practical Info

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Address

National Maritime Museum | Romney Rd, London SE10 9NF

Opening Times

29^th March 2025 – 4^th January 2026

10am – 5pm daily

Recommended Age

Tickets

Adult: £15

Student: £11.25

Child: £7.50

Tickets can be booked on National Maritime Museum’s official website

Ready for your next adventure? Hoist the colours and set sail to London’s new pirate-themed bar: The Rhum Tavern. Sip cocktails from a skull or a coconut shell and eat edible gold.

December 13 2024

Pirate-Themed Cocktail Bar – The Rhum Tavern

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Hoist the colours and set sail to seek new adventures on the seven seas! New pirate-themed cocktail bar, called The Rhum Tavern dropped anchor in central London.

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🏴‍☠️ [BLOG POST IN BIO] New pirate-themed cocktail bar dropped anchor in central London ⚓️ 🧉 Rhum Tavern is celebrating the diversity of rum and merging all the fictional and non-fictional stories about the golden age of Piracy in the 1650s ☠️ Sip cocktails out from a skull (fake ones of course), a real coconut shell or set your drink free from the tentacles of the Kraken 🦑 🍖 Sink your teeth into bar food & snacks inspired by the actual provisions from the 17th-century 📍Rhum Tavern | 48 Margaret St, London W1W 8SE 🕰️ Mon & Sun: CLOSED Tue – Wed: 5pm – 12am Thurs – Sat: 5pm – 1am Book your table on Rhum Tavern’s website #cocktailbar #secretlondon #londonbynight #pirate #cocktailtime #pirateslife #londonlife #CapCut

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The Rhum Tavern – “A modern love story of Rum, in an old world setting”

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Ahoy mateys! Opened in September 2024, The Rhum Tavern is a cocktail bar celebrating the diversity of rum and merging all the fictional and non-fictional stories about the golden age of Piracy in the 1650s.

The vessel is anchored on Margaret Street, just north of Oxford Circus and the inside looks like a hull of a 17^th-century clipper.

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Hollow barrels and wooden crates are stacked on the top of each other, each carrying bottles of Rum, coconut shells, skull-shaped glasses and candles. Ship lanterns and large candles add to the atmosphere.

You can find the pirates’ lost treasure buried bunder the long resin bar cast with shimmering gold doubloons, and witness salt beef being grilled on the cooking station.

Aye aye, Captain!

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Your captain will be industry veteran Gabriel De Verde (founder of The Rhum Tavern and former mixologist and general manager at Sketch and Mr Fogg’s) who promises an unforgettable adventure to explore the vast Rum offers (over 400 different Rum from across the globe!)

The interior and the glassware have been envisioned and meticulously built and handcrafted by De Verde himself.

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All landlubbers and pirates are welcome. Showing up in costume is not essential, however, if you do, the captain might share a bottle of Rum with you.

The Best Rum Cocktails on the Seven Seas

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Explore the treasure map-inspired menu for the best Rum cocktails. Order one of their signature cocktails named after adventurers and pirates.

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Sip cocktails out from a skull (fake ones of course), a real coconut shell or set your drink free from the tentacles of the Kraken. Eat edible gold or try a blend that ingredients were taken directly from the journal of Mordaunt from 1682 found at the British Museum.

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Sink your teeth into bar food & snacks inspired by the actual provisions from the 17^th-century.

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On the menu you will find Grilled Salt Beef which is a variation of brined beef that was available in the pirate ships of old; Grilled Corn Ribs which crisped up with some light spice and house sauce; Baby Back Ribs grilled to perfection with a homemade Rum glaze and Charcoal Casava that has been boiled in soy sauce and a mixture of spices before being dried out and grilled to perfection.

Why is the rum gone?

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The Staff at The Rhum Tavern understand that sometimes even pirates need to remain clear headed. That’s why they offer a couple of non-alcoholic blends that carry all the lashings of a good booze minus the alcohol.

Skull-Shaped Toilets

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At The Rhum Tavern, your pirate experience doesn’t stop even when you’re in the bathroom.

Rest your butt on a black skull-shaped porcelain and wash your hands over one of the large wooden buckets before going back to your mateys for another bottle of Rum.

Take a Piece of Voyage Home

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Take a piece of voyage home by ordering a bottle of house made Old Fashioned Rum, made from 5 rums and spices or a pack of gold dusted cocktail dried fruits.

More shop items coming soon.

Private Hire

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The Rhum Tavern is available for private hire. Whether it’s a private celebration or corporate event, The Rhum Tavern is able to cater groups up to 150 people.

Simply fill in the application form or send them an email here. (scroll all the way down to the bottom of the page)

Practical Info

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Address

The Rhum Tavern | 48 Margaret St, London W1W 8SE

Opening Hours

Mon & Sun: CLOSED

Tue – Wed: 5pm – 12am

Thurs – Sat: 5pm – 1am

Are under 18s permitted?

The Rhum Tavern is able to accommodate guests under 18 before 8pm as long as they are with an adult.

Fair winds and following seas! 🏴‍☠️

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