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The Best Bars in London

Bars | Shoreditch

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

Bars | Soho

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

Bars | Marylebone

Mayahuel A rustic, subterranean mezcaleria beneath a hit Mexican restaurant….

Bars | Dalston

Cadet An intimate, stripped back wine bar on the edge of Newington Green.

Bars | Chancery Lane

Baranis The only place where it’s acceptable to play with your balls in public… at a Provençal bar with the largest indoor petanque court in the UK.

Bars | Hampstead

The Duke of Hamilton A 300 year old pub with gastro fare and a cellar jazz bar.

Bars | Peckham

Jumbi Jumbi is, without doubt, London’s best new bar that’s named after an ancestral apparition from Afro-Caribbean folklore.

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 | White City

Aerial At The Broadcaster A rooftop bar in the former BBC Television Centre….

Bars | Spitalfields

Dray Walk An al fresco hangout with street food, DJs and events all summer….

Bars | Shoreditch

Roxanne A hip-hop speakeasy inspired by one of the NY scene’s biggest rivalries….

Bars | Soho

Hongdae Pocha A gloriously kitsch Korean pub in Soho….

Bars | Soho

The Little Scarlet Door Soho just got a permanent, hidden house party….

Bars | Borough

Bar Daskal An artsy, sherry-focussed drinks spot from the team at Barrafina….

Bars | Notting Hill

The Walmer Castle A Scottish retreat on Ledbury Road, with inventive Scotch fare and a library of whiskies.

Bars | Shoreditch

Bar Kick A laid-back Shoreditch bar with championship-quality table football.

Bars | Clerkenwell

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