A bar dedicated to David Bowie is opening at London’s Hotel Café Royal on Thursday, 20 September 2018. The bar is said to pay homage to the musician’s alter ego Ziggy Stardust, who he bid a fond farewell to at the hotel in 1973.

In 1973 David Bowie famously retired Ziggy with a star-studded bash at the hotel, dubbed ‘The Last Supper’. Guests included the biggest rock stars of the time, including Mick Jagger, Lou Reed and many others.

The hotel’s bars and beverages manager, Fabio Spinetti, said: “Café Royal has always been the place where great minds would come to discuss great ideas. David Bowie played a really important part in Café Royal’s history, with the famous Last Supper taking place here. It only seems fitting to provide a homage to one of our most esteemed patrons.”

The interior will boost rare images of the late singer by Mick Rock, who was Bowie’s official photographer in 1973, displayed in collaboration with London gallery Beautiful Crime.

Cocktails inspired by his life and the 1972 album The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars, will feature on the menu, including “Darkness and Disgrace”, inspired by a line in the track Lady Stardust, and based on a Rum Flip and an Espresso Martini.

“Tigers on Vaseline”, inspired by Hang On To Yourself, is described as a modern take on the Pina Colada.

Bowie, who was born in Brixton, died of liver cancer in January 2016, aged 69, just days after the release of his final studio album Blackstar.