The Best Cocktail Bars Near Hope & Anchor, by the Record

A cocktail bar in Hull that lands at number four on the Top 50 Cocktail Bars list while also hosting opera nights and loose-leaf tea service, which tells you most of what you need to know. The seasonal menu runs to mushroom-infused old fashioneds and a Tarot Cake with cream cheese frosting, but sixty-plus drinks cover every mood from classic to genuinely strange. Two floors, three rooms, and an explicit mission to be a place where people actually talk to each other.

1. Top 50 Cocktail Bars 2026 · #4 · Top 50 Cocktail Bars

The current menu at this basement cocktail bar in Leeds is organized around Sugar, Salt, Acid, and Fat, which sounds like a food-science lecture but lands as a genuinely clever way to pick a drink without pretending you know what "amaro" means. Craft beer on draft and small-vineyard wines round things out. It landed at number 20 on the Top 50 Cocktail Bars list, which should tell you what kind of crowd finds their way downstairs.

1. Top 50 Cocktail Bars 2026 · #20 · Top 50 Cocktail Bars

Art deco bones, marble and gold tables, and green velvet stools set the mood at this Eastgate cocktail bar, which runs from coffee and pastries at nine in the morning all the way through aperitivo hour to late-night classics with cheese and cold cuts. The team sources ingredients from Kirkgate Market and lets the cocktail menu get genuinely odd, in a good way. It landed a spot on the Top 50 Cocktail Bars list in 2026.

1. Top 50 Cocktail Bars 2026 · #49 · Top 50 Cocktail Bars

Park Hill's brutalist housing estate has had pubs since it was built, then didn't for a long while, and The Pearl is their return: a cocktail bar folded into a proper neighborhood local, with a seasonal menu that rotates, craft beer, natural wine, and bar food to keep things grounded. The team behind Bench in Nether Edge runs this one too, and it landed a spot in the UK's Top 50 Cocktail Bars. Sheffield's skyline looms outside; good drinks happen inside.

1. Top 50 Cocktail Bars 2026 · #40 · Top 50 Cocktail Bars

1. Difford's Guide 4.5 stars · Difford's Guide
2. The Pinnacle Guide 1 Pin

Rock star prints cover the walls of this packed cocktail bar on Merrion Street, and the music is loud enough that you're basically shouting your order. Mojo has no interest in delicate Martinis or hushed appreciation, and the crowd packing in seems grateful for that. Chunky glasses of fruity, generously poured cocktails do the work, shots fill the gaps, and the whole thing runs on a holiday-bar energy that somehow never feels try-hard.

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