Bar in London

The 1893 hotel bar that wrote the cocktail manual the rest of London still reads

Mr Lyan's South Bank flagship, the first 3-PIN bar in the Pinnacle Guide, Thames at the window

Frith Street's 1959 jazz room, the canonical London jazz club, two sets a night, low ceiling, red lamps

Dean Street's no-music, no-mobiles holdout, the Soho the audience first read about in the 80s

Milroy's reborn under the No. 3 door, Greek Street's whisky merchant and bookcase-speakeasy bar since 1964, rebranded 2024

Hoxton Square's basement, the small, no-fuss cocktail room the trade has booked since 2010