Bar

• Dalston's getting a modern Italian called HOAX with a secret late night cocktail bar

  

  After what seems like quite a while since we got too excited about the food and drink scene in Dalston, it all seems to be happening on the Kingsland Road at the moment. Just weeks after new East London pub The Black Eel opened its doors, a very interesting new Italian is about to be unveiled.

  HOAX is being billed as a modern Italian restaurant with a 'secret'

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• Actually good places to go drinking in the West End when the pubs have shut

  

  The debate about whether or not London truly is a late-night city rumbles on, but the fact remains that we’ve all been in the position of wanting the party to go on, once the pubs have shut. The next time you find yourself in central London fancying ‘just one more’ here’s our pick of the bars worth trying.

• BOX are now the people opening that huge sports bar on Piccadilly Circus

   

  Updated 13/10/25 with launch details

  For a long time new sports bar Blackwood was being previewed with huge hoardings in Piccadilly. It was supposed to be from the ETM Group, the people behind other sports bars like Greenwood in Victoria and Beechwood in Shoreditch. However, things went a little quiet on that front in recent months. Now it turns out that a

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• Wildflowers adds a Basque-style pintxos bar upstairs in Belgravia, along with gildas and cheesecake

  

  About a year after opening, Wildflowers are changing things a little bit in their bar. What was once simply their upstairs wine bar (albeit in a space which we really loved), is being transformed into a new Basque-style wine and pinxtos bar called Bar

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• Kamara sees Brother Marcus opening an Eastern-Med-influenced cocktail bar in Soho

  

  The team behind Brother Marcus (best known for their Mediterranean brunches) are trying something a little different for their next opening. They've taken over the bar space that was the original Blind Pig bar (above Jason Atherton's Social Eating House), and they're launching their own Eastern-Med-influenced cocktail bar. 

  They've teamed up with ...

• A rooftop bar with Insta-worthy views of Big Ben has opened for the summer

  

  London's rooftop bar scene is stupidly competitive but one new opening this summer has an ace up their sleeve. Searcy's Bar & Brasserie in Westminster has been open for a while, but this is the first year they've let the general public up to their roof terrace. For the summer season, they've teamed up with the Bolney wine estate for a bar that has frankly jaw-dropping views of one of the city's most recognisable

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• The Clove Club bar is back, serving up versions of its classic dishes for the summer

  

  We were big fans of the bar at The Clove Club when it was open. It was a great opportunity to try the food and a few cocktails there without signing up for the pricey tasting menu (the dinner menu now starts at £180). Well now, for the rest of the summer, the Clove Club bar is coming

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• Dom's Subs are taking over the kitchen at Old Street sports bar The Volley

  

  London's sports bar scene is pretty competitive. And if you want to stand out from the crowd when it comes to somewhere good to watch all the sporting action, then food is a good way to do that. So we tip our baseball hats today to Old Street sports bar The Volley, which just announced it's getting the Dom's Subs team to do their food from this summer.

  Super Subs, as the new venture is being dubbed ("in homage to all the

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• Kerb Social Club is coming to Spitalfields with an American sports bar vibe

  

  Kerb are on something of a roll at the moment. They have just announced a new weekend market in Leyton, hot on the heels of their big Canada Water opening, and

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• Little Fires will serve up rare mezcals and Oaxacan small plates in Shoreditch

  

  It's all change at East London bar Alfie's, which this summer is being transformed into a little slice of Oaxaca, Little Fires. And rather than just saying it's going to be Mexican-inspired, they've got all the talent to back it up.

  The collective in charge, Christian Pecoraro, Florian Schulze, and Horacio Sainz, has brought in the team behind one of the world's best bars, Sabina Sabe in Oaxaca, to help create

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• Top New York bar Dante is popping up in Claridge's for a month

  

  Caffe Dante has had quite a history in New York, having originally been established back in 1915. However, its current iteration launched as Dante back in 2015, and the restaurant and  bar have since won heaps of accolades in the decade since.

  But if you haven't managed to make it over to New York to check it out, Dante is coming to London instead. It'll be taking over the bar

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• Hot new bar Waltz has just shimmied into Shoreditch

  

  Tokyo-born mixologist Gento Torigata travelled across the globe working in bars from Ginza to Sydney and Singapore before landing in the UK. Most recently he was bar manager at the fabulous Kwãnt in Mayfair for the past two years. Now he's branching out on his own, opening up Waltz on Scrutton Street.

  The bar and its drinks list takes inspiration from both jazz and nature. There's a general menu of drinks available along with

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• Tomos Parry, Monica Berg and The Bear actor Will Poulter are creating one-off tacos for Side Hustle

  

  A particularly interesting series of collabs is happening at Side Hustle, the bar inside the NoMad London hotel in Covent Garden. They've picked three decidedly big names to produce special tacos for the next three months. Each of the names has worked with NoMad's team to design the tacos which will be available all month.

  Kicking things off on 1 May

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• BiBi's Chet Sharma is taking over the Artesian bar food in The Langham

  

  For over a year, one of London's best bars, Artesian at the Langham, has had Humble Chicken's Angelo Sato in charge of the food. However, as he focuses on getting his third Michelin star, it's time for a change at the bar and they've brought in someone just as impressive, Chet Sharma of hit Mayfair restaurant Bibi. 

  This is all part of Artesian's new menu launch,

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• James Cochran is back in Islington, taking over the menu at Little Bat

  

  He may have recently left The Brave, but chef James Cochran hasn't left Islington. Instead, he's about to take over the food menu at Little Bat cocktail bar.

  Little Bat is from the same people behind Callooh Callay and it's one of the very few cocktail bars in Islington, and also one of the most highly rated (we've been in recently and they do a great martini). Cochran's

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