Behold

The Best Bars in London

Bars | Dalston

The Hunter S. Created by the team behind the Hemingway in Victoria Park, it’s part 1930s, art deco-inspired lounge bar and part hunting lodge, with a succinct wine list and a range of beers.

Bars | Spitalfields

Hawksmoor Spitalfields Bar Low ceilings and lower lighting play host to great music, big burgers, and potent cocktails.

Bars | Chancery Lane

Kanaloa A Tiki nightclub with tropical music and sharing cocktails.

Bars | Fitzrovia

The Lucky Pig An intimate, ramshackle underground drinking den complete with rickety old piano and gramophone, mismatched furniture and leather cloakroom trunks, Chinese parasols, scratched walls…and cocktails.

Bars | Warren Street

Shaker & Company A casual bar near Warren Street with a 1980s drinking den below.

Bars | Chelsea

Barts A quirky, secret bar in the heart of Chelsea.

Bars | Embankment

Bassoon Bar, Corinthia London A glamorous, New Orleans, jazz-themed drinking den with tip-top drinks.

Bars | Kensal Rise

The Shop NW10 In the real world there are very few places where you can have whatever you like the look of, but cocktail bar The Shop NW10 is one of them.

Bars | Hoxton

Happiness Forgets It was in 1970 that Dionne Warwick first noted the perennially overlooked truth that “loneliness remembers what happiness forgets”.

Bars | St James's

The Trafalgar St. James A rooftop bar where you can sip cocktails opposite Nelson.

Bars | Kensington

Piano Kensington New York does piano bars: friends squeezed around a grand piano in Greenwich Village, cocktail in hand, filling the room with Ratpack classics and showtunes. London has one too.

Bars | Clerkenwell

The Zetter Townhouse A sumptuous and intriguing place packed with oddities, it’s a den of lived in luxury. Good cocktails, too.

Bars | St James's

The American Bar at The Stafford A quirky old boys’ club of a cocktail bar, located just off Piccadilly in a hidden little square.  Perfect for a double Lagavulin or three after a round of golf (or, erm, a shopping trip).

Bars | Shoreditch

The Nightjar A genuine, Prohibition era speakeasy with live music every night, and award-winning cocktails.

Bars | Chinatown

Experimental Cocktail Club Knowing about a speakeasy-style cocktail bar (like the Experimental Cocktail Club) that even Yoda hasn’t heard of brings a sense of “knowing” that can now be achieved a little closer to home.

Bars | Strand

The American Bar at the Savoy The city’s oldest cocktail bar, serving iconic drinks with a dinner jacketed pianist every night.

Bars | Soho

The Blind Pig Tucked above Jason Atherton’s Social Eating House, The Blind Pig serves all manner of wonderful concoctions in unusual vessels.