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London’s cocktail culture spans grand hotel bars, neighbourhood institutions, live-music basements, Japanese-influenced counters and hi-fi listening rooms. Tradition matters deeply here, but the city’s strongest bars continue to use it as a foundation for new ideas rather than an endpoint.

8 approved bars

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Connaught Bar

The Connaught, Carlos Place, Mayfair, London W1K 2AL, United Kingdom

The Connaught Bar has become a reference point for modern luxury cocktail service.

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Satan's Whiskers

343 Cambridge Heath Road, London E2 9RA, United Kingdom

A neighbourhood cocktail bar with an unusually serious command of the classics, Satan’s Whiskers keeps the formula deliberately simple: excellent drinks, a daily-changing menu and hip-hop on the soundtrack.

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Scarfes Bar

Rosewood London, 252 High Holborn, London WC1V 7EN, United Kingdom

Scarfes Bar feels like an eccentric London drawing room enlarged to hotel scale: open fire, deep armchairs, antique books and Gerald Scarfe’s original work on the walls.

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Nightjar

129 City Road, London EC1V 1JB, United Kingdom

Below street level near Old Street, Nightjar turns a cocktail reservation into a night of jazz, swing and blues.

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American Bar at The Savoy

The Savoy, Strand, London WC2R 0EZ, United Kingdom

The American Bar at The Savoy opened in 1893 and remains one of London’s foundational cocktail addresses.

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Waltz

28 Scrutton Street, London EC2A 4RP, United Kingdom

Waltz is an intimate Japanese-influenced cocktail bar shaped by bartender Gento Torigata’s experience across Tokyo, Sydney, Singapore and London.

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Space talk

18–20 St John Street, London EC1M 4AY, United Kingdom

Space Talk is a design-led hi-fi bar in Farringdon where cocktails and music are given equal weight.

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Lyaness

Sea Containers London, 20 Upper Ground, London SE1 9PD, United Kingdom

At Sea Containers London, Ryan Chetiyawardana and the Mr Lyan team trade conventional cocktail categories for unusual ingredients and fresh ways of thinking.

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