Hidden Shoreditch speakeasy with live music on Thursdays and Saturday nights. Try the 24 Volt Cobbler!
Go for the Film-Noir at Purl in Marylebone: Kammerlings, little blanc, lagavulin, atomized perfume of grapefruit, lemon, rose and Perique. Goodbye sore throat, hello new you. Read more.
Try the "dry" martini, which adds a distillation of dry essence to Beefeater gin & Martini Extra Dry vermouth & “The Spitfire,” a blend of their house cognac along with other ingredients. Read more.
If you are with friends, share one of the communal drinks like a “Tikki Bowl”. If you want to keep your drink all to yourself, then the house creation, The Mai Tai is the only way to go. Read more.
Rhubarb Fizz is an outstanding cocktail, ask for free Shochu samples (they have about 6 flavours, I liked Lemon best). Tasting menu for £50 is superb but only 2 hour table limit
Particular favourites are the “Nettle Gimlet” made with Beefeater Gin and homemade nettle cordial and “The Master At Arms” made with Myers rum, a port evaporation and homemade grenadine. Read more.
You have to get a Hix Fix and play bar billiards with a friend or two to enjoy the true experience!
Seriously good serious cocktails. Warning: these people don't mess around. The Tommy Margarita is the best. Goddamn. Margarita in the world.
Look for the shooter with watermelon and vodka on the menu - it's deliciousness in a tiny glass!
Try the Old Fashioned - Swanky bar/lounge. Bartender suggested a classic and I don't regret it...
Skip the "normal cocktails" you can get anywhere, and go straight for the Tiki drinks!
London’s most prestigious Chinese restaurant exudes glamour and retains a reputation of serving some of the best cocktails in town. We recommend the 'Nashi Collins' made with fresh nashi pear. Read more.
On London’s funkiest boutique street, neoclassicism and 1960’s futurism meet in this funky and stylish restaurant. A true out-of-this-world experience.
Laid back bar with a friendly atmosphere. Fantastic cocktails with unusual twists, especially recommend the squid ink sour and egg and bacon coupette. Bar snacks are brilliant, perfect drinking fare. Read more.
Try the Aqua Breeze sharing cocktail. Gorgeous and you get six glasses worth from a single shaker!
You absolutely *have* to book in advance - and don't wear a suit. Fantastic inventive cocktails & hip atmosphere.
Take a group of friends and hide away in one of the red velvet curtained caves, which are perfect for a little late night mischief – try one of their Champagne cocktails served in vintage Coupes. Read more.
Happiness Forgets is all about good drinks and good vibes, nothing too fancy or in your face. It's a small Oasis away from the edgy haircuts and art collectives that usually fill this hood. Read more.
The cocktail menu is great – try The Matt Bianco with its layer of Absinthe or the Chinese Mojito, which looks like the overrated favourite but tastes a hundred times better. Read more.
Exuding prohibition era speakeasy in every detail – from the jazz to the cutesy diner-style staff uniforms – Barts is a priceless gem beneath the faceless glitz of South Kensington. Read more.
Victorian styled drinking den with a cocktail menu of 5 great tasting drinks served in tin cups and milk bottles! Read more.
Check out the S&Co cocktail. For an extra £2.50 you can take the mini shaker home with you - amazeballs! Read more.
Amazing new bar- and the only place inlondon which serves Kona beer from Hawaii!
Watch the barmen as they concoct amazing cocktails, both classic and contemporary. You are in very safe hands so order your favourite and they will more than deliver. Read more.
The guys behind the bar are up there with the best of them and the menu is a like a cocktail history lesson, with many of the classics originating from the bar itself. Read more.
Cocktails are its focus with contemporary twists on classics like the Pomegranate Cosmopolitan and the Velvet Elvis - a blend of Chambord Raspberry Liqueur, Jack Daniel's, Sprite, Sweet and Sour Mix. Read more.
The Savoy, check, sexy champagne bar, check, some light cabaret, check; this place is only going to leave her with a taste for it and wanting more Read more.
There's both bitter and sweet in the cocktail list, as well as a super-generous happy hour to take the edge off(and a license until 3 a.m., there will be no edges left to take off after you're done). Read more.
Have a wander, play the piano outside, get married on your lunch-break, or sign up to cocktail classes which are held in the classroom upstairs (it’s amazing). Read more.
Visit on the 1st or 3rd Monday of the month for Boat-Ting. Improv jazz, poetry and a friendly atmosphere. Read more.
The Full English Martini is one for you Heston fans: Bombay Sapphire stirred down with Vermouth with a side of picked quail egg and bacon; BarChick’s kinda breakie. Read more.
Whether you’re tired of the market and in need of breakfast, or if like BarChick you just want to sink some killer cocktails, then this is the joint for you. Read more.
Take a former Chinatown gambling den, add an all-star bar cast and some legendary dim sum, et voila, you have Opium Cocktail Bar and Dim Sum Parlour. This place is epic with three floors... Read more.
Upstairs they serve stripped back fancy British food (Michelin star chef we may add), but it's the bad-ass cocktails in the industrial, rock n roll style basement bar that you should go and check out. Read more.
Being so minimal, there’s not much to look at besides their extensive cocktail list which we think is genius. There are of course the trusted classics but BarChick was loving the odd choices they had. Read more.
Imagine if Tom Hanks in “Big” opened a bar, or think Zack from Saved by the Bell’s ideal hangout… well that’s what you’re getting with The Old School Yard, along with some serious cocktails. Read more.
This place has charm, some seriously good drinks and downstairs has some delicious food and to top it all off there's a fireplace in the bar - dreamy! Read more.
Even if you find yourself cutting it close for time, The Booking Office bar is literally inside St Pancras, so grab a quick punch and one of their English Ales to go and you’re on your way in minutes. Read more.
Head to BC to imbibe drinks like Central America's "No Brainer” served in a Mexican Wrestler style "Barrio Man" Toby jug, or North America's "Pacific Twitch”. Read more.
One of Mayfair’s 5 star hotels is making better use of its old luggage room and has turned it into a cocktail joint – GENIUS!... Read more.
Adorable little bar with great happy hour deals! Very hipster chic (without being annoying).
Great cocktails, nice space, really affordable but they need to manage numbers a the weekends a bit better. It was far too rammed. Will be back though.
Open just 4 nights a week, it’s that cool, Wednesday to Saturday - is members-only & offers food courtesy of nearby Super Pizza. Enter online & wait with bated breath to get in. Read more.
Flip through issues of Playboy magazine from the 70s and 80s as you suck down Disco Drinks like the Thai Green Colada, Mai Tai, Tequila Sunrise or a Wallbanger in this Battersea Rise man cave.
The cocktails change every 3 months except for the Forgotten Range - spirits that have aged over time available from the old apothecary cabinet http://barchick.com/find-a-bar/london/5cc-exmouth-market
Lovely little room downstairs with arched ceilings. An all-round friendly place with the best gin selection this side of the 18th Century.
Try an exemplary Gibson or Dick Bradsell’s Atlantic Bar classic, The Bramble, for evidence of what the bartenders are really capable of. Read more.
Open during the summer on Saturday evenings, it's an excellent makeshift cocktail bar in a secret garden above an entrance to the Rotherhithe Tunnel, next to the Brunel Museum.
Fantastic bar. Be adventurous and ask the bartender to create something unique. You will not be disappointed
After years of practicing in some of London's best bars, Italian Alex finally has one of his own - he’s got all sorts going on down here, so try and sit at the bar and pay attention Read more.
The best place in London for an interesting conversation with a random stranger over coffee, tea, beers, or a cocktail!
The Painted Presidente: The glass is literally coated with “pomegranate paint” before they simply pour in a mix of house rum & vermouths, and then it's finished off with a drop of “liquid grass” Read more.
Great to see the chain down south. Fancy cocktails and even better bar juggling skills. Great selection but bar food is under par.
A neighbourhood cocktail bar with impressive drinks that all come alongside nibbles. It feels like being in a giant terrarium – with plants, flickering candles and metal cans decorating the shelves. Read more.
Feeling adventurous? Try the Best of Both with brown bread infused Ketel One vodka
One of my favourite cocktail bars in London. Staff gets on tables to sing throughout the night
Fantastic hidden whiskey bar with an authentic feel, and friendly knowledgeable staff. The house whiskey (aged in the main table!) is great - give it a go.
Really nice spot with an exclusive feel. Its situated down some stairs and behind a curtain. The cocktails there are really nice and well presented. Well worth a visit!
Very, very good cocktails you would expect from the team behind Calloh Callay in an understated chilled environment. Try the Steve McQueen.
Perfect late night spot in Bethnal Green. They make a mean negroni and will play Illmatic the whole way through upon request.
Very helpful staff who can suggest drinks on what you've liked so far.. An amazing drinks with a lovely view of the Thames. I suggest Monroe for a light sweeter drink to start unwinding
Amazing cocktails, ask the bar staff to make you something special based on your spirit of choice.
A chilled out cocktail haven. This treasure of a bar is the product of one seriously talented team. So whatever your tipple of choice, it will be perfectly executed and utterly delicious. Read more.
More rum old fashioneds than any other bar in London (maybe the world?). Anyway, they know what they're doing. Have fun with the 3xtensive menu before experimenting.
Lovely new spot from the Happiness Forgets crew. A bit more relaxed than their Hoxton home, with a vintage North American feel. Great cocktails, good beer list and pool tables. My new favourite local.
I recommend their house cocktails – especially the Divine Artisan and the Baltazar. Nice little bar and nice crowd.
The happy hour is a HUGE draw to all Simmons bar. But this has an awesome Soho location, a size that means intimate is appropriate, awesome staff. And the Nintendo.... +1
After a refreshing refurb, the pop-up is back (and better than ever). The cocktails are insanely amazing. Try the Young Cuban for a house specialty (rum, sherry, lemon, dill) then get Dewars or Don't. Read more.
An elegant Italian-styled cocktail spot. Drinks are premixed in Tony C’s lab, so expect perfection. Order all the Negronis (at £6.50 a pop) and sample the tasty variations on this bitter sipper. Read more.
Shutterbug brings crepes and cocktails to a well hidden spot just off Rivington Street. The décor is café style, laid back and you’ll more often than not find a glasses wearing, map tapping... Read more.
A cocktail bar stuck in the nineties. Cocktails come in tea pots to share (£16-20). Affordable beers (£3.50) and candy shots. There's a gif maker at the back!
Tucked away beneath an old cinema sign in a former Chinese takeaway, Ruby's peeled-paint walls, mismatched furniture and flickering candlelight make for a decadent drinking den indeed. Read more.
Awesome lemongrass and chili margarita. Super cute speakeasy. Pass is "I'm here to get lucky"
Lovely intimate atmosphere. Great place to relax and talk with friends with lovely cocktails, great food, nice staff. Try the crab fries!
Situated in a train station in Kingly Court, Soho, Cahoots is an underground, 1940s-themed bar that is hidden in a tube carriage which was once used as an “air raid shelter” during the war.
Great place, atmosphere and creative cocktails. They have a dessert menu to pair with.
Nice crowd. Very friendly staff with superb mixing skills … added to self-infused spirits. This is a really nice place
Speakeasy underneath Milroy. Great menu, knowledgeable staff in front as well as behind the bar. Have fun on the menu (which changes seasonally) before you venture off.
