Drink
Bars with a point of view, from hotel rooftops to twelve-seat counters.
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All drink openingsMarrion's Bar
Elliott Kaye of Norman's pours wine alongside comfort food.
Lady of the Grapes · London Bridge · June 2026Lady of the Grapes moves into a chocolate factory, and puts the winemaker on the label
Carole Bryon's bar for women winemakers takes over a Victorian corner of Southwark Street, with a Comté soufflé upstairs and a vaulted speakeasy below.
Sova · Notting Hill · April 2026Sova pours Georgian amber and Ukrainian fizz, with records from Rough Trade on the shelf
Zima's old Notting Hill site becomes a wine and vinyl bar off Portobello Road, with Cristian Vega's eastern list and Denis Calmis's tartare on rye.
Pepperbird · Olympia · 2 April 2026Pepperbird Is a Speakeasy Built Where Hendrix Once Played Olympia
Des Gunewardena's basement bar under Pillar Hall trades in velvet, amber light and cocktails named after records.
Drink · Bayswater · March 2026The Alchemy Bar
A herbal, apothecary-style bar inside Six Senses London.
Cato · Covent Garden · 5 February 2026Cato swaps Crazy Bear's red leather for a julep room and a basement sorted by colour
Angelos Bafas and Bart & Taylor honour New York's first celebrity bartender on Mercer Street, with mint upstairs and British synaesthesia below.
Gambit Bar · Fitzrovia · February 2026Gambit Bar gives the sober guest a full page and the dandies a basement
Under The Newman in Fitzrovia, Eder Neto pours rum, rye and picante beneath an amber ceiling, with a mirror-image alcohol-free list and jazz at the back.
Stable Wines · Islington · 1 December 2025Stable Wines hides a candlelit bar in an Islington bank vault
A natural-wine shop on Essex Road with a labyrinth of arches and iron railings below.
The Martini Bar · King's Cross · November 2025The Martini Bar: Hawksmoor's very cold answer to a Gothic cathedral at St Pancras
In the old Gothic Bar of the Midland Grand, Hawksmoor pours martinis under Gilbert Scott's vaults and serves caviar with hash browns.
The Marlborough · Mayfair · 10 November 2025The Marlborough pours a Devonshire-grade Guinness upstairs and sends you down for a square of pizza
Carl McCluskey's Crisp Pizza has moved from Hammersmith into a restored 1892 Mayfair pub, with the Devonshire team behind the bar.
Drink · Soho · 29 September 2025Kamara
The Brother Marcus founders and bartender Angelos Bafas take the old Blind Pig on Poland Street, pouring tsipouro, mastiha and a tsoureki Old Fashioned.
Eagle Bar · Mayfair · September 2025Eagle Bar shakes a layered B-52 beneath the gilded bird that watched over the old US Embassy
Liana Oster runs two rooftop bars at The Chancery Rosewood: a piano-and-fire-pit American bar facing Grosvenor Square and a Hyde Park terrace for sunset.
