Cocktail Bar entertainment in London
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Milk & Honey
Milk & Honey’s number one ‘House Rule’ reads: ‘No name-dropping, no star fucking’, so prepare for a tight-lipped but glamorous clientele at this cocktail bar. It’s a members’ club that lets nonmembers in on weeknights (though it’s preferred if the plebeians stick to the beginning of the week), and you have to phone in advance to reserve your own private booth for a two-hour slot. Once you’re there, you have to ring the bell and whisper your name into the buzzer, the speakeasy way. This practice is heavenly if you like privacy and great drinks, and hellish if you prefer a more down-to-earth atmosphere. It’s worth sampling the vast and exquisite cocktail list.…
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Player
The Player was one of London’s top cocktail bars during the 1990s, when Dick Bradsell, the Lenin of London’s cocktail revolution, started mixing his substantial and stylish drinks behind the basement bar. He has since moved on and, although the bar still serves great drinks, the clientele is a lot less suave than when the bar was at its best. A cooler Soho crowd heads down after 9pm, when you too should descend and sample the cocktail list. Unfortunately, only members are admitted after 11pm.
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Bar Blue
This stylish bar attached to Vinopolis and close to the Thames has floor-to-ceiling windows and a colour scheme supposedly derived from a bottle of Bombay Sapphire Gin. The stools, the bar, the ceiling – everything but the nearby river – are bluer than blue. It’s a convenient place for a cocktail before or after a performance at the nearby Shakespeare’s Globe.
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Galvin at Windows
This swish bar is a popular place for observing London from a great height: the 28th floor of the Hilton Hotel on the edge of Hyde Park. The cocktails are priced in the stratosphere (£12.75 to £14.95) and the ‘live’ band has a pre-recorded track but the leather seats are comfortable, the marble bar gorgeous and the views of the city breathtaking, particularly at dusk.
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Loungelover
The drinks and the look are both faultless at this Shoreditch institution, where it’s all about the superb, expensive cocktails and the junk-shop chic of the decor. Sometimes it gets packed out with city suits, and service can be hit-and-miss, so it’s always best to reserve a table, but despite these gripes this is a glamorous, camp place for a killer cocktail.
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25 Canonbury Lane
This somewhat quiet stretch of Islington has been in need of a good cocktail bar for years, and we love 25 Canonbury Lane for fulfilling this need perfectly – it’s funky, friendly, the cocktail and wine lists are superb and the staff know their stuff. You can usually get a seat in the lovely interior, and there’s a good food menu too.
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Jazz Bar Dalston
Jazz Bar is Dalston’s most excellent and unexpected find, hidden just off the chaos of Dalston Junction. Housed within glass walls, it’s not really a jazz bar but a cocktail place where the neighbourhood’s hip and friendly inhabitants congregate at the weekends to party on to hip-hop, R&B and reggae.
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Lonsdale
The place that humbly calls itself the ‘epicentre of the cocktail world’ retains its somewhat tired space-age walls suffused in purple light and other sci-fi kitsch. But the exceptional cocktails, listed over 20 pages and created from some 200 different spirits, are what people come here for.
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Trailer Happiness
Think shag carpets, 1960s California kitsch and trashy trailer-park glamour. Try the Tiki cocktails and share a flaming volcano bowl of Zombie with a friend to ensure your evening goes off with a bang.
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White House
Attracting Clapham’s beautiful people with its stylish low-lit interior – tan sofas, small square tables, expansive bar and polished wooden floors – this chic bar on three floors also boasts a decent restaurant serving dim sum and a fantastic roof terrace for summer.
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Inc Bar
The newest arrival to Greenwich Market and the talk of the village is this bar with a seemingly endless list of cocktails. Among them is one they call tatanka (buffalo in Polish), which is Zubrowka vodka and apple juice – a match made in heaven.
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Brixton Bar & Grill
This stylish bar under the railway arches is a superb choice for ‘slinky’ (their word) cocktails and listening to live music. It also has an interesting menu of small and large ‘plates’ as well as tapas.
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