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    119 Sydney Street, London, SW3 6NR, United Kingdom · London
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    Closed now, opens 5 PM

    Wednesday Noon–3 PM, 5 PM–11:30 PM

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    SevenRooms
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  4. 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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    Colechurch House, London, SE1 2SX, United Kingdom · London
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    Closed now, opens 4 PM

    Wednesday 4 PM–11 PM

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  7. Rank 558. New Bloomsbury Set

    Cocktail Bar

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  9. Rank 558. Nine Lives

    Mexican

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    8 Holyrood Street, London, SE1 2EL, United Kingdom · London
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 5 PM

    Wednesday 5 PM–11 PM

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    SevenRooms
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  11. Rank 558. Northcote Records

    Cocktail Bar

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    8 - 10 Northcote Road, London, SW11 1NT, United Kingdom · London
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    Closed now, opens 5 PM

    Wednesday 5 PM–Midnight

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  17. Rank 558. Pot Still Bar

    Cocktail Bar

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    Address
    Kohlenberg 11, Basel, 4051, United Kingdom · London
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    Closed now, opens 5 PM

    Wednesday 5 PM–Midnight

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    22 Park Lane, Mayfair, London, W1K 1BE, United Kingdom · London
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    Open now, until midnight

    Wednesday 8 AM–Midnight

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  20. Rank 558. Ribiera

    Latin American

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  21. Rank 558. Roadhouse

    Cocktail Bar

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  26. 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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    86 Queensway, London, W2 3RR, United Kingdom · London
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    Closed now, opens 5 PM

    Wednesday 5 PM–1 AM

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    255 Elgin Avenue, London, W9 1NJ, United Kingdom · London
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    Open now, until 11:30 PM

    Wednesday 9 AM–11:30 PM

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  36. Rank 558. The Marylebone

    Cocktail Bar

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    93 Marylebone High Street, London, W1U 4RE, United Kingdom · London
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    Open now, until 11:30 PM

    Wednesday Noon–11:30 PM

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    25 Upper Mall, London, W6 9TD, United Kingdom · London
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    Open now, until 11 PM

    Wednesday 11 AM–11 PM

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    8 Gillingham Street, London, SW1V 1HJ., United Kingdom · London
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    Open now, until 9:30 PM

    Wednesday Noon–9:30 PM

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  45. Rank 558. Tryst (Beneath Trèsind)

    Indian-inspired Cocktail Bar

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    13-14 Hanover Street, London, W1S 1YH, United Kingdom · London
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 5:30 PM

    Wednesday 12:30 PM–2 PM, 5:30 PM–11:30 PM

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  46. Rank 558. 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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  47. Rank 558. Twice Shy

    Italian Bakery

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    Address
    14 Hogarth Place, London, SW5 0QT, United Kingdom · London
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    Closed now, opens 5 PM

    Wednesday 5 PM–11:30 PM

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  49. 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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