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Specialist Bars Chain Bars
Many restaurants feature
excellent bars. Smiths of Aficionados of particular spirits Halfway between a bar and a
Smithfield, opposite the famous are well served in London. pub, with large windows and
meat market, has a large, Scottish restaurant Boisdale’s white walls, London’s chain
industrial-style café/bar at Macdonald Bar boasts 170 bars may not be the most
ground level, and a sleek cock- Scotch malt whiskies (and exciting places to drink, but
tail and Champagne bar on an impressive selection of they are a reliable option and
the next floor, topped by two Cuban cigars), while the some find them more inviting
restaurants upstairs; nearby, Rockwell, an upscale bar in than dark pubs. Filled with
St John has a stylish bar serving the Trafalgar Hotel, offers chunky wood furniture, All
excellent wine and bar food. London’s largest bourbon Bar One is very popular, while
A drink in the bar is the less selection. Salt is a slick, modern the Slug & Lettuce chain
expensive way to experience whisky bar, and Dirty Martini features paintings on the
the Criterion brasserie’s in Covent Garden offers a walls and quiet rooms for
sumptuous, gilded neo- range of bespoke cocktails – talking. Be At One specializes
Byzantine decor. Contem porary its happy hour includes in cocktails and even offers
Chinese restaurant Hakkasan half-price martinis. Mexican master classes. Branches of
serves exotic cocktails flavoured bar/restaurant La Perla is Browns Bar & Brasserie are
with the likes of ginger and nearby and has an extensive often located in grand
lemon grass in its glam range of tequilas for your buildings, decorated with
Oriental-style bar. shooting pleasure. modern twists.
DIRECTORY
Soho & Lab Bar Salt Lamb and Flag
Piccadilly 12 Old Compton 82 Seymour St W2. 33 Rose St WC2.
St W1. Map 11 C2. Map 13 B2.
Admiral
Duncan Map 13 A2. Slug & Lettuce Rockwell Bar
19 Hanover St W1.
54 Old Compton St W1. Long Bar Map 12 F2. The Trafalgar, 2 Spring
Gardens SW1.
Map 13 A2. 50 Berners St W1T. (One of several branches.) Map 13 B3.
Map 12 F1.
Aqua Spirit Trader Vic’s The Salisbury
240 Regent St W1. Rupert Street The London Hilton, 90 St Martin’s Lane WC2.
22 Park Lane W1.
Map 12 F2. 50 Rupert St W1. Map 12 D3. Map 13 B2.
Map 13 A2.
Balans Covent Garden & Seven Stars
60 Old Compton St W1. Spice of Life Strand 53–54 Carey St WC2.
Map 13 A2. 6 Moor St W1. Map 14 D1.
Map 13 B2. American Bar
Brewdog The Savoy, Strand WC2. Bloomsbury &
113 Bayham St NW1. Mayfair & Map 13 C2. Holborn
Map 12 F1. St James’s Brasserie Max The Lady Ottoline
(One of several branches.) Covent Garden Hotel, 11a Northington St WC1.
Be At One 10 Monmouth St WC2.
Compton’s Map 6 D5.
of Soho 20 Great Windmill Map 13 B2. Norfolk Arms
St W1.
51–53 Old Compton St W1. Cellar Door 28 Leigh St WC1.
Map 13 A2. Map 13 A2. Zero Aldwych WC2. Map 5 B4.
(One of several branches.) Map 13 C2.
Criterion The Craft Beer Co. Princess Louise
224 Piccadilly W1. Browns Bar 168 High Holborn WC1. 208 High Holborn WC1.
Map 13 A3. & Brasserie Map 13 B1. Map 13 C1.
Dog & Duck 47 Maddox St W1. (One of several branches.) Scarfes Bar
18 Bateman St W1. Map 12 F2. Dirty Martini Rosewood London, High
Map 13 A2. Claridge’s Bar 11–12 Russell St WC2. Holborn WC1. Map 13 C1.
Map 13 C2.
The French House Brook St W1. The City &
49 Dean St W1. Map 12 E2. KU Bar Clerkenwell
30 Lisle St WC2.
Map 13 A1.
Rivoli Bar Map 13 A2. All Bar One
Hakkasan Ritz Hotel, La Perla 103 Cannon St EC4.
8 Hanway Place W1. 150 Piccadilly W1. 28 Maiden Lane WC2. Map 15 A2.
Map 13 A1. Map 12 F3. Map 13 C2. (One of several branches.)

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