A Bar with Shapes for a Name Bar Choix de la rédaction Bar Comparer Modern Intimate Artistic A Bar with Shapes for a Name Haggerston $$$ Remy Savage's Bauhaus-precise cocktail room on Kingsland Road
Lyaness Bar Choix de la rédaction Bar Comparer Modern Waterfront Elegant Lyaness Bankside $$$ Mr Lyan's South Bank flagship, the first 3-PIN bar in the Pinnacle Guide, Thames at the window
Noble Rot Lamb's Conduit Street Bar Choix de la rédaction Bar Comparer Wine Led Bistro Magazine Room Noble Rot Lamb's Conduit Street Bloomsbury $$$ The wine-magazine bar, Mark Andrew and Daniel Keeling's Bloomsbury original since 2015
Ronnie Scott's Bar Choix de la rédaction Bar Comparer Classic Intimate Literary Ronnie Scott's Soho $$$ Frith Street's 1959 jazz room, the canonical London jazz club, two sets a night, low ceiling, red lamps
3 Greek Street Bar Bar Comparer Whisky Speakeasy Merchant Bar 3 Greek Street Soho $$$ Milroy's reborn under the No. 3 door, Greek Street's whisky merchant and bookcase-speakeasy bar since 1964, rebranded 2024
Black Rock Bar Bar Comparer Whisky No Frills Expert Led Black Rock Shoreditch $$$ Shoreditch's whisky reference, 250 bottles, no cocktails, a single felled-oak table
Discount Suit Company Bar Bar Comparer Intimate Moody Convivial Discount Suit Company Aldgate $$$ Wentworth Street's unmarked basement, the City fringe speakeasy that does not need a velvet rope
Happiness Forgets Bar Bar Comparer Intimate Moody Convivial Happiness Forgets Hoxton $$$ Hoxton Square's basement, the small, no-fuss cocktail room the trade has booked since 2010
Swift Soho Bar Bar Comparer Chef Led Intimate Candlelit Swift Soho Soho $$$ Two-floor Old Compton Street cocktail room, aperitivo bar upstairs, three-hundred-whisky lounge below
Tayēr + Elementary Bar Bar Comparer Modern Intimate Artistic Tayēr + Elementary Old Street $$$ World's 50 Best No.5, two rooms that split the modern London bar in half