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  2. Rank 1082. Carom

    Indian

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    17 Mercer Street , London, WC2H 9QJ, United Kingdom · London
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    Open now, until midnight

    Monday 3 PM–Midnight

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  4. 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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  10. Rank 1082. Gaucho, Charlotte Street

    Argentine Steakhouse

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  11. Rank 1082. Gaucho, Piccadilly

    Argentine Steakhouse

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  14. Rank 1082. HEJ Coffee

    Swedish Coffee

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  15. Rank 1082. 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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  16. Rank 1082. House of Tippler

    Cocktail Bar

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  17. Rank 1082. KPH

    Diner American

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  20. Rank 1082. Lockes

    Cocktail Bar

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  28. 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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  31. Rank 1082. New Bloomsbury Set

    Cocktail Bar

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  33. Rank 1082. Nine Lives

    Mexican

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  35. Rank 1082. Northcote Records

    Cocktail Bar

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  41. Rank 1082. Pot Still Bar

    Cocktail Bar

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  44. Rank 1082. Ribiera

    Latin American

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  45. Rank 1082. Roadhouse

    Cocktail Bar

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  50. 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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    255 Elgin Avenue, London, W9 1NJ, United Kingdom · London
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    Open now, until 11:30 PM

    Monday 9 AM–11:30 PM

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  60. Rank 1082. The Marylebone

    Cocktail Bar

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    25 Upper Mall, London, W6 9TD, United Kingdom · London
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    Monday 11 AM–11 PM

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  69. Rank 1082. Tryst (Beneath Trèsind)

    Indian-inspired Cocktail Bar

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  70. Rank 1082. 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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  71. Rank 1082. Twice Shy

    Italian Bakery

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  73. 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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