The Nudge’s Guide to the Best London Cocktail Bars

As with everything featured within the Nudge Hitlists, this small guide to the best London cocktail bars is nothing more than a humble collection of our favourites.

It is, however, a collection of favourites which – by happy coincidence – doubles up as a more definitive and trustworthy list of the best London cocktail bars than you’re likely to find anywhere else.

Price; ambience; location; vibe and staff. 

None of these factors were given our direct consideration at any point at all, but they were all there - bubbling uncontrollably beneath the surface - as we diligently, and instantly, reacted to the command, 

“The best London cocktail bars - list them....please".

by producing the following:

Experimental Cocktail Club Hidden behind a scruffy, easily-missable, door in the heart of Chinatown is this: a moody, legendary, Parisian, prohibition-style cocktail den.

Zetter Townhouse The most sumptuous and intriguing of all London cocktail bars: packed with curios and oddities, it's a den of lived in luxury...

Worship St Whistling Shop Exploded Vodka Martini, anyone? Worship St Whistling Shop: a quirky cocktail bar inspired by Victorian gin palaces and dram shops of old

Shaker & Co As the humble cocktail originated in New Orleans’ French Quarter, this bar was designed around, um, a stag's head.

Happiness Forgets Let happiness remember, at a secret underground cocktail bar in Shoreditch

Fancy some quirkier options? Check out the Nudge’s Guide to the most unusual London bars