Bar in London

Remy Savage's Bauhaus-precise cocktail room on Kingsland Road

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

The wine-magazine bar — Mark Andrew and Daniel Keeling's Bloomsbury original since 2015

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

World's 50 Best No.5, two rooms that split the modern London bar in half

Agostino Perrone's silver-trolley martini and a room that has spent a decade at or near the top of the World's 50 Best Bars list.

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

Shoreditch's whisky reference — 250 bottles, no cocktails, a single felled-oak table

Wentworth Street's unmarked basement — the City fringe speakeasy that does not need a velvet rope

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

Bermondsey Street's standing-room Spanish bar since 2011 — José Pizarro's pintxos counter

Michael and Charlotte Sager-Wildeve's Hackney Road wine bar — the East London natural-wine reference since 2013

Two-floor Old Compton Street cocktail room — aperitivo bar upstairs, three-hundred-whisky lounge below