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• Horatio Street Social, a new bar opens on Hackney Road this week

  Two ex-CalloohCallay bartenders launch their first venue in the basement of The Nelson’s Head

• Lyles new bar menu brings Michelin starred snacks and small plates to Shoreditch

  

  James Lowe’s restaurant Lyles, in Shoreditch’s Tea Building, is launching a new standalone bar menu. And it's sounding rather good.

  It’ll be around 10 to 12 small dishes, alongside a mix of new and old dishes. Based on the first look at a sample menu (like the set menu, the bar menu will change daily) there’ll be plenty of variety on the price front with dishes from £4 for an individual oyster

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• Bar Bingo aims to offer London's coolest bar crawl

  

  Ever wanted to be more in the know about London's coolest bars? A new company aims to do just that.

  Bar Bingo is a cocktail based bar crawl where no bar is more than five minutes walk from the next. As founder Helen Glaberson explained to Hot Dinners "As industry insiders we take it for granted where the best bars are, but actually a great deal of Londoners don't know about some of the city's best bars.

  The tour books the bars and atable for you, so you

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• Best new bars in London - winter 2017 edition

  With so much happening in the world of London drinks of late, we’ve rounded up our selection of the best new bars and cocktail menus across the capital.

• Kultured pops up in Soho with fermented cocktails and kimcheese bagels

  

  For a while there, fermented drinks, food, and just about everything was all the rage. And then there was a brief lull. Perhaps to make way for other, slightly less bacterial trends.

  Now, here comes Kultured to make us fall in love with tangy, probiotic-laden food and drink all over again, with their fancy, townhouse-based pop-up bar in Soho.

  Operating out of Great Windmill Street, they'll be

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• StreetXO launches cocktail bar CircusXO

  

  Street XO restaurant in Mayfair has just launched its very down destination cocktail bar – CircusXO. Downstairs in the restaurant, the drinks menu at CircusXO is the culmination of many months of work and input the multi Michelin-starred chef and the bar team at StreetXO.

  With the cocktail list at StreetXO popular since opening, Muñoz committed to creating a stand-alone bar to showcase them, with the aim of making CircusXO a

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• Artesian bar at The Langham announces a new all-star bar team

  

  Some very exciting news from one of our all-time favourite bars in London. Artesian bar at The Langham Hotel have announced that Remi Savage and Anna Sebastian will take over the respective roles of Head Bartender and Bar Manager starting this November. 

  Remy joins Artesian after four successful years at Paris speakeasy The World's 50 Best Bars 2017 sees the American Bar at the Savoy top the list

  

  The World's 50 Best Bars were revealed last night and while London wasn't dominating quite as much as it did last year, it did see a London bar top the entire list. So big congratulations are due to The American Bar at the Savoy which is now officially the best bar in the world.

  As for the rest? There are eight London bars in the list in total, with Dandelyan moving up to number two and The

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• Our top tipples for London Cocktail Week 2017

  With plenty of great drinks to be enjoyed in London Cocktail Week, we’ve put together our selection of our must-try cocktails. 

• The Racketeer cocktail bar to open in Kings Cross

  This October will see the official opening of The Racketeer, a new cocktail bar / wine shop in Kings Cross. The pub, which was once The Carpenters Arms, has been given a revamp and restored to its Victorian Glory. Completely restored, the venue is now run by an experienced team who’ve spent more than 20 years honing their craft in bars across London.

• Japanese tapas and sushi - we Test Drive Cubé

  Try this new Japanese spot just off Oxford Street, but don't expect the traditional menu...

• Cubé Restaurant and Kakurega Bar opens on Blenheim Street in Mayfair

  The new spot serves sushi upstairs and has a downstairs hideaway bar serving Japanese cocktails

• Time travel to the 1920’s at the Evans & Peel Pharmacy’s secret bar in W4

  Evans & Peel are building off their Earl’s Court venue to create the Pharmacy, a new bar in Chiswick where visitors will be led through a secret entrance way into the hidden bar. There’ll be passwords, classic American grub and of course, Old Fashioneds.

• London's summer pop-up bars

  Summer has arrived and while we’re cautiously optimistic that it’s here to stay, London’s restaurants and bars are shaping up to launch a series of summer bars

• Test Driving Coupette in Bethnal Green - a very French cocktail bar

  With Calvados and more on the menu, Coupette is a very French cocktail bar in Bethnal Green. We head east for an early look.