'Breaking Bad'-Inspired Cocktail Lab Coming To NYC

NEW YORK, NY — After a largely sold-out, two-year stint in London and Paris, a “Breaking Bad”-inspired cocktail experience, ABQ London, is headed to New York City this summer. See below for more photos.

Set in an RV, the experience has been loved and lauded by customers and the press since its Parisian inception in 2015, according to a recent press release from the company Lollipop, a self-described engager of “the influencers of tomorrow” that specializes in immersive experiences. After receiving a welcome drink, patrons are given manuals with instructions for how to cook two molecular cocktails using an elaborate lab setup. Yellow boiler suit-clad staff will be on hand to help. (Keep up to date with news from your neighborhood by signing up for Patch’s daily newsletters.)

ABQ London (“ABQ” stands for Albuquerque, New Mexico, where AMC’s “Breaking Bad” takes place) is expected to open its doors in July in New York City for only a few months’ time. For now, the exact location is unknown.

Entrance prices range from $45 to $49 and include two hours and three cocktails inside the pop-up RV. A waitlist stood at more than 1,000 as of late May.

“No doubt, ABQ is one of the most interesting and fun projects we have built in the last few years and I am happy that, finally, it is going to be open in New York,” said Lollipop founder Seb Lyall. “It feels like homecoming, given the inspiration behind our concept.”

This is the second “Breaking Bad”-related pop-up to find a temporary home in the city this year. A pop-up based on the show’s infamous chicken joint Los Pollos Hermanos opened briefly in FiDi in April.

Photo credit: Lollipop