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Ryan Chetiyawardana's cocktail bar on the South Bank builds its menu around five house-made ingredients, things like tree caramel and thunder mushroom, that sound like a fantasy novel and drink like a revelation. The space runs gold, blue, and silver, open and unhurried. The menu, called the Ancestral Cookbook, explains itself at the back for anyone who blank-stared at "death bitters," which is most people, and that's rather the point.
The awards strongest first
- The Pinnacle Guide 3 Pins
- Difford's Guide 5 stars · Difford's Guide
- Top 50 Cocktail Bars 2026 · #25 · Top 50 Cocktail Bars
- The 50 The 50 Discovery
One number, weighted & current 88
How we scoreThe dishes from the writeups
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Tornado Sazerac
“Nurture, features drinks such as the Tornado Sazerac with Courvoisier, struck match grenadine, oud wood, The Balvenie and Death Bitters.”
Top 50 Cocktail Bars, 2026 -
Elephant Martini
“The third section, or, Taught History, has drinks like the Elephant Martini with Grey Goose, Hepple Gin, hyraceum and Thunder Mushroom vermouth.”
Top 50 Cocktail Bars, 2026
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