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The Best Bars in London

Bars | Tower Bridge

The Doodle Bar The Doodle Bar has blank, blackboard painted walls for serious artistic expressionisms. And doodles.

Bars | London Fields

Netil360 Presenting Netil 360, a newly-refurbed cafe/bar/workspace currently serving up a laid back and leisurely experience of the London skyline.

Bars | Blackfriars

City of London Distillery A gin bar overlooking the copper stills pumping out some of the best gin in London.

Bars | Tooting

Tooting Tram and Social It’s the one area of London that actually sounds like it’s blowing its own trumpet. And not entirely without good reason.

Bars | Shoreditch

Callooh Callay A bustling Victorian-inspired bar, inside which lives the actual legitimate speakeasy wardrobe to Narnia.

Bars | Battersea

Humble Grape Battersea A Battersea-based wine bar which began its life as an explosively popular crowdfunding campaign… and is now sharing its love of handcrafted, largely biodynamic wines produced from independent, sustainable vineyards with London’s burgeoning population of wine-lovers.

Bars | Old Street

Old St. Records A two-storey Shoreditch warehouse filled with live bands and DJs.

Bars | Liverpool Street

By Appointment Only A former Turkish bathhouse sitting rather incongruously in the middle of the City, now home to home-made infusions and a lot of gin.

Bars | Islington

Little Bat A second bar from the people behind Callooh Callay, in which you’ll find: a hanging garden, a bar, a library area, and finally, a sofa-strewn museum space. It’s what we here like to call ‘a success’.

Bars | Moorgate

Black Rock To call Black Rock a bar would be slightly misleading. Because there is no bar. Instead, there’s a gigantic tree-trunk that they’ve split in half, and filled with whiskey.

Bars | Brick Lane

CTC Brick Lane Booze from the 1800s and an in-house distillery.

Bars | Pimlico

Clarendon Cocktail Cellar A subterranean basement bar serving up cocktails inspired by iconic literary works.

Bars | Hackney

Sager + Wilde One of the only places in London you can get exceptional quality Californian wine from sommeliers who know a lot about it, in a cozy date-worthy setting that comes with no snobbery.

Bars | Fleet Street

Humble Grape Fleet Street For the average person, the world of grape hooch can seem deeply impenetrable – something which the people behind Humble Grape aim to help change with their deeply impressive Fleet Street bar/restaurant/shop.

Bars | Marylebone

Zetter Townhouse Marylebone The second townhouse hotel bar from the Zetter group. Unlike the Clerkenwell original, it’s affectionately known as Seymour’s Parlour -and just like the Clerkenwell original, it’s good.

Bars | Spitalfields

The Culpeper A Spitalfields local that is just as enterprising as its 17th century namesake, with a downstairs bar, upstairs restaurant, and rooftop private space/herb garden/astronomy deck.

Bars | Hackney

Kansas Smitty’s A subterranean jazz and julep parlour in the basement of a Broadway Market cocktail bar serving up that all too common inebriating combination of late night jazz jam sessions and strong bourbon cocktails.