Artesian at Langham Hotel
It’s topped the World’s Best Bars list three years running, and remains a reference point for cocktail culture throughout the world. At the hands of Alex Kratena and Simone Caporale,…
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White Lyan
Truly radical, White Lyan pushes the boundaries of what we've come to expect from a cocktail bar. There’s not a shaker or an ice cube in sight. In fact, there…
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Satan’s Whiskers
This brilliant Benthal Green neighborhood bar with bad boy attitude is decked out with taxidermy, including a cigarette-smoking monkey and a stout with a jaw-dropping vegetable appendage. And just on…
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NOLA
A love letter to the city that gave us the Sazerac, Dan Priseman’s NOLA is a pocket of Southern hospitality in Shoreditch. Located above Rivington Street’s Bedroom Bar, it’s not…
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Attaboy
Attaboy is the everyman's cocktail bar hidden in plain sight on an obscure bit of Eldridge Street. From Michael McIlroy and Sam Ross, the pair that helmed Milk & Honey…
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Nightjar
Behind an inconspicuous wooden door, tucked between two junk food shops on the chaotic Old Street roundabout, is Nightjar. The moodily lit basement bar harkens back to jazz-era clubs with…
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Lounge Bohemia
Lounge Bohemia can be visited by appointment only with—ironically—a strict no-suit, no-office-wear policy. The unmarked door is like a porthole into 1970s Czechoslovakia with antique furniture from top hat-wearing owner…
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Milk & Honey
The late Sasha Petraske's NYC original ignited the neo-speakeasy craze worldwide, and in 2002 its UK equivalent opened. With no signage and only a subtle entry bell, it still feels…
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London Cocktail Club
A club only in name (no membership is required), London Cocktail Club's original location is a punk gin palace outfitted with graffitied images of swallows and wenches, shelves of dusty…
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Happiness Forgets
While the rest of Hoxton Square is awash with the mainstream Shoreditch masses, Happiness Forgets remains a bastion of civilized drinking headed up by luminary Alastair Burgess and DJ Andy…
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