Swift Soho Bar
Chef Led Intimate Candlelit
Swift Soho
Soho
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Two-floor Old Compton Street cocktail room — aperitivo bar upstairs, three-hundred-whisky lounge below
Cuisine Guide
Best Cocktail Bar Venues 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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American Bar at The Savoy Bar
Editor's Pick
Bar Classic Elegant See & Be Seen
American Bar at The Savoy
Strand
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The 1893 hotel bar that wrote the cocktail manual the rest of London still reads
Lyaness Bar
Editor's Pick
Bar Modern Waterfront Elegant
Lyaness
Bankside
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Mr Lyan's South Bank flagship, the first 3-PIN bar in the Pinnacle Guide, Thames at the window
Tayēr + Elementary Bar
Editor's Pick
Bar Modern Intimate Artistic
Tayēr + Elementary
Old Street
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World's 50 Best No.5, two rooms that split the modern London bar in half
A Bar with Shapes for a Name Bar
Editor's Pick
Bar Modern Intimate Artistic
A Bar with Shapes for a Name
Haggerston
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Remy Savage's Bauhaus-precise cocktail room on Kingsland Road
Discount Suit Company Bar
Intimate Moody Convivial
Discount Suit Company
Aldgate
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Wentworth Street's unmarked basement — the City fringe speakeasy that does not need a velvet rope
Happiness Forgets Bar
Intimate Moody Convivial
Happiness Forgets
Hoxton
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Hoxton Square's basement — the small, no-fuss cocktail room the trade has booked since 2010
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