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You can take the boy out of the five-star hotel but you can’t take the five-star hotel out of the boy! Erik Lorincz’s new bar, Kwãnt, operates to standards beyond five-star. ...
PDT (short for Please Don't Tell) is one of the original Manhattan bars modelled on Prohibition speakeasies. This one is a rather wonderful cocktail lounge, accessed through a...
Denny Kallivoka caught up Alex Kratena and Monica Berg to talk about Tayēr + Elementary, their hugely anticipated joint venture slated to open in Spring 2019. ...
It’s easy to miss this Fitzroy long-stayer, just across the road from the better-known Black Pearl. ...
This all-day bar and kitchen concept is so successful that it has been much replicated and this two-floored Leeds venue is the seventh incarnation. ...
For our review of Door 74, please see our Amsterdam’s 10 best cocktail bars page.
This hotel, restaurant, bar and cobbled garden courtyard are housed in a former Grade II listed gothic Victorian fire station on the eponymous upmarket Marylebone backstreet. Since...
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Tucked away under the staircase of Claridge's lobby is this quaint lounge bar, which acquired its warm Art Deco look in 1999 when the hotel embarked on its first major designer...
Paradise by way of Kensal Green ...
Callooh Callay was inspired by the nonsensical poem 'Jabberwocky' by Lewis Carroll and the Mad Hatter decor and cocktails found here make for a refreshing change to your A-typical...
If Buddha Bar's eastern charms leave you feeling flat, you might prefer a taste of Le China. Formerly known as the China Club, and located on a quiet street near the Gare du Lyon,...
BYOC is secreted away, totally unsigned, underneath a fresh juice bar in Covent Garden. It's a tiny, candlelit basement with a scratchy jazz soundtrack, entered by a door behind...
Sasha Petraske opened the original Milk & Honey in New York back in 2000. Many awards followed and it achieved legendary status in the bar world, spawning a myriad of imitations....
Although practically hidden in the basement of Galvin Bistro De Lux on Baker Street, and reached only via a tiny stairwell from the middle of the dining room, this bar should not...
Mario Basso, the Italian owner and bar manager gives this small corner bar a very homely feel with an Italian touch - it's great for appetitivos and classic cocktails. It's also at...
Take the escalator down to the lower ground floor of Selfridges to find its spanking new drinks department, with a bar nestled in the middle. Named after Mr Harry Gordon Selfridge...
A small barber shop in a covered shopping arcade is the unlikely and well disguised entrance to one of Leeds’, and indeed the UK’s best bars. The dark suited burley doorman is...
This good-time bar is named after the fruit that flourishes in South America and New Zealand, and indeed the fruit crops up in some of the cocktails served here. ...
The Lower East Side outpost of a French-owned line of cocktail bars. Experimental Cocktail Club New York joins its siblings in London and Paris, bringing its francophone take on...
Built to accompany Blowfish, the upscale Asian restaurant with which it shares an entrance, Barfish can easily be said to be the prettiest bar space in Toronto. With its...
Perhaps the most famous hotel in the world, The Savoy reopened in 2010 after a three-year, £100m+ refurbishment. While the rest of the hotel now sparkles with the polish of a Las...
Despite the name this is a bar that anyone can enter, not a club. However, it is separated from the sumptuous lobby of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel by curtains and at the stroke of 6pm...
This Shoreditch offshoot of Meat Liquor takes over a former church hall in this cobbled square next to Hoxton Square. There's less graffiti and it feels more overtly designed, with...
Widely recognised as being one of the world's 20 best bars, Le Lion lies behind a locked door and buzzer system but is open to anyone who makes a reservation. The original ground...
Taking up a large corner site of Plaza Vieja, which is perhaps the most spruced-up part of town, Factoria is a beer-oriented venue that brews its own. Shiny vats rise up behind the...
Another from the Tom and Ed Martin stable, the Botanist is slap-bang on Sloane Square. Named in honour of Sir Hans Sloane, a botanist, it is brightly decorated with botanical...
The Hedonist Project was launched in Leeds as a pop up originally, and then evolved into a rotating concept bar, that showcased a new direction and creative concept throughout each...
Founded in in 1964 by brothers Jack and Wallace Milroy, Milroys of Soho proudly sits as London's oldest whisky specialist.
Situated out in the Southern suburbs, this is by far the best bar in the area. Funky and colourful - both the bar and the cocktails they serve. Holy Spirit is always crowded with...
Set within three vast, high railway arches just behind Borough Market, Brew Wharf combines brasserie, beer hall and microbrewery. ...
In 1918, a colourful French wine salesman named Arnaud Cazenave opened the grand restaurant that bears his name. Once the Old Grill Bar, the renamed and refurbished Arnaud's French...
Cole's is every bit your all-American bar with solid mahogany counter and sports screens either side behind it. Its bartenders can knock up a decent selection of old school classic...
Epic art deco lobby bar with over 1100 gins in a three-storey back bar tower. ...
Dry Martini is something of a relic from a bygone era with its much used wooden bar and panelling aging gracefully. ...
Tucked away on a small, nondescript street, Hyde & Co is a dark venue with an unmarked, locked entrance. Once you’ve buzzed to get in, a black panelled hall leads to a living...
This secluded hotel bar lays claim to being the first place to pour Guinness over champagne in a tall glass to create the Black Velvet cocktail. The hotel's menu quotes early 1870s...
One of the most praised and awarded bars in the world, The Dead Rabbit is headed up Sean Muldoon and Jack McGarry, the duo who rose to prominence a Belfast's Merchant Hotel Bar....
Cofounded by Ocho7Ocho's Julián Díaz, Florería Atlántico is another winning Buenos Aires speakeasy. A combination florist and wine shop by day, from 8...
Following a different format to its sister site in Argyll Street, Aqua Shard is a British restaurant with a large cocktail lounge area. It's the lowest restaurant in the building...
This four story-story, rural themed restaurant starts rustic and casual on the ground floor with a relaxed all day dining room and gets more formal as you go up. ...
Once you sneak behind the black curtain separating the Horse's Mouth from the Uma Uma Ramen restaurant and descend the stairs into the calm, dimly lit Japanese inspired space it's...
Defined as "a person who enjoys the good things in life, especially food and drink," Bon Vivant is co-owned by Stuart McCluskey - enough said. ...
Rather than the bar’s name, outside there’s simply a neon sign flashing “closed”. Off-putting perhaps, but such is this bar’s reputation that the best way to spot its...
Two pressed tin walls channel you through to a room that opens out Tardis-like, with a long bar dominating the long, thin space, decorated with antique mirrors and granny-like...
Huge collection of whiskies and rums. Simple classic cocktails. We've listed this as being in the central area - it is but it's also a short taxi ride from the other bars listed...
Your average See-'U'-Jimmy tartan hat owning Joe Blow is simply not a man of sophistication, therefore rendering tourist areas such as the Royal Mile a discerning drinker's no go....
We first visited Bread Street Kitchen when it launched and despite the opulent setting and an offering of two bars, the cocktails were below standard. Happily things are now very...
Dress up this place is posh. The Alexander Bar lies off the lobby of the Grand Breatagne five-star hotel, in Syntagma Square. It's very classic in appearance with the requisite...
Hoi Polloi, on the ground floor of the new Ace Hotel London in trendy Shoreditch, is predictably cool. Taking its name from the Greek, meaning 'the majority', Holi Polloi has come...
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