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The Best Bars in London

Bars | Bethnal Green

Satan’s Whiskers Satan’s Whiskers is located in what was previously a closed down Caribbean restaurant, and the perfect place to go when you want to sit down to good, simple, no-nonsense cocktails.

Bars | Brick Lane

Discount Suit Company The journey to a good bar is an experiential cog of fundamental importance, one which ought never be overlooked nor undervalued.

Bars | Spitalfields

The Mayor of Scaredy Cat Town Your knowledge of London’s speakeasies is making you more popular than ever. Which is saying something, as everyone loves you anyway.

Bars | Fitzrovia

Bourne & Hollingsworth Bar A quirky, teensy cocktail bar in Fitzrovia, combining Impressionist murals with sumptuous banquettes.

Bars | Soho

Ronnie Scott’s A world-renowned jazz club, with intimate cabaret seating downstairs, and a dancefloor upstairs.

Activities | Shoreditch

Bounce Shoreditch A luminous subterranean bunker in Shoreditch housing a restaurant (overlooked by a 25-foot pizza counter and cocktail bar) with a private room and seventeen ping pong tables.

Bars | Soho

Little Italy The Capital Of Fun. Yes, it’s an Italian restaurant, technically. But it’s main job is staying open til 4am, serving thousands of shots and playing cheesy music for you to dance away the night to….

Bars | Embankment

Gordon’s Wine Bar There are a small number of unspoken, detailed and fail-safe rules in the world of dating. Like, for example: 1) Brush your teeth. 2) Be fun. And, 3) Take your date to Gordon’s Wine Bar.

Bars | Shoreditch

Bull in a China Shop Whisky bars. Aside from being a huge, unexploited business opportunity for Cadburys, they’re also one of the world’s most popular niche drinking dens, which makes producing a truly great one all the more difficult.

Bars | Soho

Bar Américain at Brasserie Zédel 1930’s America. It gave us the Wall Street crash, the Great Depression, and cocktails. Totally worth it.

Bars | Mayfair

The Connaught Bar An award-winning bar serving some of the best drinks you will ever have in your life.

Bars | Shoreditch

The Gibson The Gibson seeeems to have travelled from the American 1930s to modern-day London, making itself at home ever since.

Bars | Soho

The Pink Chihuahua This 3am-licensed bar is plastered in Day of the Dead murals, Mexican memorabilia and glass cabinets full of tequila bottles.

Bars | Holborn

Scarfes Bar Gerald Scarfe has the rare distinction of being the only person on earth who has both a species of pterosaur (Cuspicephalus Scarfi) and a hotel bar named after them. It’s almost cartoonish.

Bars | Dalston

Furanxo A Spanish artisanal deli, that becomes a wine and tapas bar by evening….

Music | London Bridge

Omeara Mumford & Son’s Ben Lovett has decided to open a music venue in London Bridge. And to be frank, it’s not too shabby at all.

Bars | Shoreditch

The Book Club An aptly Jekyll and Hyde sort of a space, offering coffee and café fare by day, and raucous shindigs for East Londoners by night.