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  • The Standard adds Sweeties cocktail bar to its tenth floor

    The Standard adds Sweeties cocktail bar to the tenth floor

    While there's already Decimo up on the tenth floor of The Standard hotel in King's Cross, they're about to get a neighbour up on the same floor with the launch of the hotel's new cocktail bar - Sweeties. 

    The new bar is aiming for "early 1970s Hollywood opulence" which is translating to lots of velvet sofas. mirrored tables and what they're referring to as "a six-foot antique phallic

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  • Silverleaf will be a destination cocktail bar for The City

    Silverleaf will be a destination cocktail bar for The City 

    The City isn't blessed with an abundance of the best cocktail bars right now, but that looks about to change with the latest addition to the new Pan Pacific hotel. 

    The hotel opened before Christmas, but now it's getting ready to unveil Silverleaf, its cocktail bar - and it's brought in an impressive team to do so. That's Chris Tanner and Simo of Soho's Millroy's

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  • The best bars in London right now

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    From swanky hotel bars to East London dives, we pick out the very best places for liquor in London right now. 

  • Abandon Ship sails from Scotland to Covent Garden

    Abandon Ship sails from Scotland to Covent Garden

    Abandon Ship are pretty big in Scotland (there are two Abandon Ship bars there already and the group behind them has 13 in total) and now they're getting ready to launch in Covent Garden. 

    Taking over what used to be PIx, their London bar comes with a design that they're describing as a "sensory explosion", so it should definitely stick out in Covent Garden. We'd say it seems closest to

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  • Amaro is a new cocktail bar for Kensington with an impressive pedigree

    Amaro is a new cocktail bar for Kensington with an impressive pedigree

    Just as London's finishes hosting the 50 Best Bars awards, another very promising bar is opening in Kensington. 

    Amaro is the passion project of Elon Soddu, previously Head Mixologist of The Savoy. Elon and his bar team all have experience in five-star

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  • Frank and Jackson Boxer launch Below Stone Nest, a dive bar on Shaftesbury Avenue

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    This is a turn up for the books. You don't normally think of Shaftesbury Avenue when you're looking for a cool place to drink in the West End. But a new dive bar being opened by the Boxer brothers, Frank and Jackson, sounds like it'll be the hottest place to be this autumn.

    Below Stone Nest sees the brothers behind Brunswick House, Orasay and Frank's Cafe in Peckham, take on the bar space

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  • Pall Mall gets a new underground champagne bar from Searcys

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    It's been a movie set for films like The Dark Knight, Gandhi and upcoming release Infinite, now 116 Pall Mall has thrown open its doors to the public with the opening of a new underground bar.

    Called 116 Pall Mall Champagne Bar by Searcys (yes, it's a bit of a mouthful) the new bar, as the name suggests, is going to serve up a lot of fizz including one of the largest selections of magnums in London. There'll be a

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  • Figaro's Bar recreates a piece of Provence in Piccadilly's Trocadero

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    Things are changing at The Trocadero. This giant shopping and entertainment centre has been largely dormant for years, but now a host of new openings there are shaking things up.

  • Louche is a new late night bar for Soho, with its eye on Soho's past

    Louche is a new late night bar for Soho, with its eye on Soho's past

    A new bar is heading to Soho, taking over the space that used to hold 68 & Boston on Greek Street. From the same people behind the Records bars (Venn St, Northcote and Eastcheap) Louche is looking to be inspired by the Soho of the 1920s and beyond. 

    What does that mean in practice? Lots of wood panelling for a start, but also apparently "hidden peep shows" (it is old school Soho they're

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  • The Connaught launches The Red Room, its first new bar in a decade

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    Optimism seems to be in the air if you consider the number of new bar openings in the Mayfair/Marylebone area. Anywhere that doesn’t require driving to/petrol will certainly hit the spot this week, at least. Hot on the heels of its sister hotel’s new bar, Claridge’s The Painter’s Room Bar, which we recently visited,

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  • Claridge's reveal The Painter's Room bar - we went along to check it out

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    Claridge's has magicked up a brand new - and spectacular-looking - cocktail bar. We went down to take a look at this surprise opening. 

  • Neighbourhood Portobello cocktail bar and kitchen lands on Ladbroke Grove

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    This new West London bar is a colourful conversion from a pub on Ladbroke Grove, to an all singing and dancing fast-service cocktail bar.

  • SOMA is the new standalone bar in Soho from Kricket

    SOMA is the new standalone bar in Soho from Kricket

    The people behind Kricket are getting ready to open something new, and quite different from before. This time it's a standalone basement bar in Soho, called SOMA, taking over the building right next door to Kricket Soho (which used to be a club and karaoke bar). 

    SOMA will still carry on the Indian influences that you'll see in Kricket, and more besides with drinks

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  • The Night Owl and Someday are two new music led bars coming to Finsbury Park

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    Updated 4/6/21 with The Night Owl opening date

    It's all happening at Finsbury Park. As part of the station's massive redevelopment, there's plenty to look out for with a large new M&S food store, Picturehouse Cinema and Honest Burgers all coming to the station environs.

    But that's not all. It looks as though this part of N4 is going to get two new bars, both of which

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  • Four Quarters arcade bar are opening a huge new place in Elephant & Castle

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    The original Four Quarters in Peckham Rye was a game-changer - a bar meets gaming arcade. Five years ago they opened their second bar, this time in Stratford, and now they're expanding again.

    Their latest bar will be in the huge new Elephant Park development in Elephant & Castle. It's going to be the group's biggest opening to date with over 30 retro arcade machines, eight vintage console booths and two

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