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Best Cocktail Bar Restaurants in London

London's dining scene spans every corner of the world. These are the finest Cocktail Bar venues in the city, each one personally vetted by our editorial team for quality, atmosphere, and experience.

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Our editors' ranked picks for London:Swift Soho, American Bar at The Savoy, Lyaness, Tayēr + Elementary, A Bar with Shapes for a Name.

#VenueNeighborhoodPriceWhy it makes the list
1Swift SohoSoho$$$Two-floor Old Compton Street cocktail room, aperitivo bar upstairs, three-hundred-whisky lounge below
2American Bar at The SavoyStrand$$$$The 1893 hotel bar that wrote the cocktail manual the rest of London still reads
3LyanessBankside$$$Mr Lyan's South Bank flagship, the first 3-PIN bar in the Pinnacle Guide, Thames at the window
4Tayēr + ElementaryOld Street$$$World's 50 Best No.5, two rooms that split the modern London bar in half
5A Bar with Shapes for a NameHaggerston$$$Remy Savage's Bauhaus-precise cocktail room on Kingsland Road
6Discount Suit CompanyAldgate$$$Wentworth Street's unmarked basement, the City fringe speakeasy that does not need a velvet rope
7Happiness ForgetsHoxton$$$Hoxton Square's basement, the small, no-fuss cocktail room the trade has booked since 2010