Venues similar to Happiness Forgets

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

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

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

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

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

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

UK's No.1 gastropub 2026, the Soho Guinness pour and the dining room above it

Jacob Kenedy's region-by-region Italian counter on Archer Street, every dish labelled by province, eighteen years deep

London's longest-standing Michelin-starred pub, Fulham backstreets, game and wild food

Notting Hill's Michelin-starred neighbourhood brasserie, wood-fired grill, retained star 2026

The Holland Park-edge neighbourhood restaurant the W11 regulars send each other to

Ravinder Bhogal's no-borders Marylebone room, Indian, East African and South-East Asian cooking, ten years in

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

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

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

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

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.

Eighteenth-century Lexington Street townhouse with a handwritten daily menu, the last romantic room in old Soho