Cocktails
- Test Driving The Napoleon Hotel – we check in for a night at London’s only one room hotel
The recently opened Napoleon Hotel holds the illustrious titles of London’s smallest hotel as well as that of ‘most bars per guest’. This single room ‘grand’ hotel sports THREE - making that more than one per guest. We spent the night...
- Brick & Liquor mixes cocktails and sharing plates in Clapham
After getting off to a great start down in Tooting, Brick and Liquor has made the move to Clapham to open their next branch of his cocktail bar. It's larger, with seats for 100, has a decently sized menu for bar snacks, and serves brunch (including a full English with savoury pancakes) on the weekend.
- Dead Rabbit at Claridge's - the World's Best Bar comes to town
27/7/17 - updated with details of the menu
It recently got voted number one in the World's 50 Best Bars list, but if you haven't managed to make it to New York to try Dead Rabbit, then fear not - it's coming to you.
... - This East London popup only serves two things - margaritas and margheritas
Sometimes detail is too much - enjoy the simpler things with this two note pop-up
- Seasonal brasserie Neighbour opens on Kentish Town Road
300 Kentish Town Road has just been taken over again, this time by seasonally focused brasserie Neighbour, who’ll be catering for locals and visitors to The Forum with lunch, brunch, dinners and drinks above ground, plus cocktails in basement bar Jukes.
- The Mint Gun Club is Stokie’s new cocktail hotspot from an award-winning bartender
There'll be tea and more in the deli, but the cocktails are the REAL draw at Stoke Newington's Mint Gun Club, the newest project from cocktail master Rich Hunt.
- 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.
- An Espresso Martini Festival is coming to London
Yes, you read that right. An entire FESTIVAL dedicated to the mighty espresso martini. It's being set up by Mr Black (who have a similar festival in Australia) and DrinkUp.London. There will be 50 bars serving £5 espresso martinis all over the capital. All the caffeine infused cocktails you could ever want.
Confirmed so far are Milk & Honey, Jason Atherton’s Blind Pig, all the Grinds, Cocktail Trading Company,
... - Downstairs at Machiya is a new basement bar from the Kanada-Ya team
After enjoying a homely Japanese dinner in Machiya, head downstairs to their new basement bar to try the whiskey, cocktails, and maybe even bowl of lotus root chips with miso mayo (if you have room).
- Nine Lives brings waste-free booze and food to London Bridge
Waste nothing, make cocktails - that’s the ethos behind Sweet&Chilli’s latest venture, a new bar called Nine Lives based in London Bridge.
Operating out of a Victorian basement in Bermondsey, their “total passion project” will be dishing up cocktails and food that reuses ingredients otherwise be destined for the bin. It's a trend we’re seeing again and again lately, from
... - Does Dukes London serve the city's best martinis?
Given how much we, or at least I, love martinis - it's a mystery as to how it took so long to get around to trying those at Dukes. Because, if you didn't know it already, the St James hotel has forged quite the reputation as purveyor of the best in town.
What Dukes has going for it, in spades, is history. It used to be the favoured watering hole of the James Bond creator, Ian Fleming. Legend has it that the author came up with Bond's catchphrase 'shaken not
... - Darbaar launches Lotus, a new bar in The City featuring Indian-inspired drinks
Another new bar is heading for the City as the people behind Darbaar are set to open a new bar called Lotus. This was previously part of the restaurant itself and now it'll have a menu of spice-infused spirits and Indian twists on classics. Chef-patron Abdul Yaseen has also created a fresh menu of Royal-inspired dishes to accompany all the new booze.
Starting with those cocktails, they're
... - Australasia’s Best Bar, The Baxter Inn comes to London
These days you don't need to travel the world to visit the best bars - they're all coming to London. Dead Rabbit is coming to Claridge's and now The Bloomsbury Club Bar (BCB) is bringing in cult Sydney bar The Baxter Inn for a bar residency this month, which kicks off on Wednesday 24th
... - London's best cocktails for World Cocktail Day
In honour of World Cocktail Day, Saturday 13 May, we asked the Hot Dinners Drinks Editor, Louis Fernando, to select a shortlist of five cocktails you should try. Here's what he came up with...
- Bar Termini Centrale opens on Duke Street Bar Termini gets a new sister bar just off Oxford Street
Knockout cocktails, coffee and plentiful Italian cuisine