The Best Places to Drink and Stay in London
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Rank 501. York and Albany
Cocktail Bar
A long black-and-grey bar faces the door of this cocktail bar tucked into the foyer of Gordon Ramsay's Camden townhouse hotel, high-backed armchairs pulled close to a fireplace nearby. The 22-drink menu runs classic martinis through fizzes and long drinks, which is a sensible range for a room that pulls in both hotel guests and locals who've discovered the armchairs are quite hard to leave.
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Rank 501. Zenna Bar
Indian
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Rank 501. Zigfrid Von Underbelly
British
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Rank 704. Ace Hotel Lobby Bar
American
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Rank 704. Apartment 58
Cocktail Bar
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Rank 704. Archer Street
Cocktail Bar
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Rank 704. Baccarat Bar
Cocktail Bar
A cocktail bar tucked inside Harrods, where every drink arrives in a crystal glass made by Baccarat, which you can then buy on your way out if the mood strikes. Velvet, chandeliers, and a tight menu of high-end cocktails set the register firmly at "what's another round." Small plates from the Harrods kitchen round things out. It is, in short, a bar that knows exactly what it's doing and charges accordingly.
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Rank 704. Carom
Indian
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From the outside it still reads as a pub, the kind that's been anchoring this Barbican-edge block forever, but step inside and you're somewhere considerably more considered. The Martin brothers have a habit of rescuing tired City boozers and returning them better dressed and better behaved than they found them. Difford's Guide has taken note. The crowd tends toward suits loosening their collars after six, which feels exactly right.
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Rank 704. Eclipse, South Kensington
Cocktail Bar
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Rank 704. Gaucho, Charlotte Street
Argentine Steakhouse
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Rank 704. Gaucho, Piccadilly
Argentine Steakhouse
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Rank 704. Gaucho, Tower Bridge
Steakhouse
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Rank 704. HEJ Coffee
Swedish Coffee
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Rank 704. Homeboy Bar - Islington
Modern Irish Cocktail Bar
The Guinness is poured properly and the Irish whiskey list is taken seriously, which tells you most of what you need to know about this cocktail bar on Essex Road. Homeboy leans into modern Irish hospitality without winking about it, so expect a crowd that actually knows what they ordered. Live music most nights of the week, DJs on weekends, and rugby on a screen big enough to matter.
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Rank 704. House of Tippler
Cocktail Bar
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Rank 704. KPH
Diner American
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Rank 704. Laki Kane Cocktail Bar and Restaurant
Pan-Asian Cocktail Bar
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Rank 704. Lockes
Cocktail Bar
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Rank 704. Milroy's of Spitalfields
Cocktail Bar
Four floors of whisky obsession in the shadow of Spitalfields Market, with a thousand drams on the ground floor and a basement cocktail bar, The Proofing Room, named for the bakery that occupied the space before the war. The cocktails lean on the original Soho location's Vault recipes, so the Coconut Butter Old Fashioned travels well. Above it all, a private members club with a cigar terrace, for those who like their evenings to escalate.
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Rank 704. New Bloomsbury Set
Cocktail Bar
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Rank 704. Nine Lives
Mexican
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Rank 704. Northcote Records
Cocktail Bar
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Rank 704. Novotel Tower Bridge - Elements Bar
Cocktail Bar
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Rank 704. Pot Still Bar
Cocktail Bar
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Rank 704. Ribiera
Latin American
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Rank 704. Roadhouse
Cocktail Bar
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Rank 704. Square Mile Distillery and Bar
Cocktail Bar
The copper and steel stills behind the glass wall are not props. Each one was carried down the stairs by hand, and they all still run, made by German craftsman Christian Carl with the kind of dials and levers Jules Verne would have sketched. This City cocktail bar leans hard into gin, with a menu built around it, though other spirits and a few beers are there if you insist on ignoring the obvious.
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Rank 704. The BAR at Courthouse Hotel
Cocktail Bar
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Rank 704. The March Hare
British
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Rank 704. The Marylebone
Cocktail Bar
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Rank 704. Tryst (Beneath Trèsind)
Indian-inspired Cocktail Bar
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Rank 704. TT Liquor
Cocktail Bar
A three-floor East London cocktail bar with a liquor store stocking over a thousand bottles, many of them rare, which already tells you something about the clientele. The cellar bar is the heart of it, candlelit and genuinely subterranean, while upstairs fills with masterclasses and tasting sessions most weekends. It sits on Kingsland Road, where the bar scene runs deep, and holds its own among stiff competition.
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Rank 704. Twice Shy
Italian Bakery
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Rank 704. Without Papers
Italian
The menu arrives as a passport, which tells you more or less everything about this Kingsland Road bar. Three Italian founders turned a loaded piece of American slang into a name for the place they built after moving to London, and the concept holds together better than it has any right to. Expect an Italian-leaning wine list, draught beer, and food to go with it, all in a Shoreditch room that takes its own backstory seriously without losing the plot.
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