Behold

The Best Bars 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 | Old Street

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

Bars | Islington

Little Bat A second bar from the people behind Callooh Callay. 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 | Covent Garden

Mr Fogg’s Tavern Mr Fogg’s is what we’d like to refer to as a ‘bar experience’. As in, it’s technically a bar, but you might prefer to think of it as an experience. Plus, there’s a Gran Cave.

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 | Kentish Town

Ladies & Gentlemen A retro-inspired Kentish Town cocktail bar located – as it happens – in an abandoned underground toilet block at the bottom of Highgate Road.

Bars | Moorgate

5cc Singer Tavern A sexy little cocktail den hidden in the basement of a Grade II listed pub.

Bars | Soho

Cahoots A theatrical, 1940s-style cocktail bar located off Carnaby Street, containing a vintage tube carriage and offering up live music every week….

Bars | Soho

Milroy’s & The Vault Never judge a book by its cover. Because these ones cover something completely unexpected.

Bars | London Bridge

GŎNG | The Shard Western Europe’s highest cocktail bar (located on the 52nd floor of The Shard).