Venues similar to The French House

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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