Behold

The Best Bars in London

Bars | Sloane Square

Tonteria An intimate Mexican-themed bar, restaurant (sort of) and nightclub located underneath Sloane Square. If you like your tequila delivered by toy train, then this is for you.

Bars | Shoreditch

Boundary Shoreditch A rooftop orangery and bar, for grilled dishes and cocktails overlooking Shoreditch.

Bars | Tower Hill

Savage Garden A rooftop bar with panoramic views and outré cocktails.

Bars | Earl's Court

Evans & Peel Detective Agency A secretive underground bar bringing a slice of East London to the West….

Bars | Dalston

Ruby’s Bar & Lounge Located under a cinema billboard bearing the words, “Nothing To See Here” – in a space previously filled by a Chinese takeaway that truly lived up to its name – is basement speakeasy Ruby’s.

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.