Bar in London

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

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

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

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