The 10 best unique Bars in London
Lyaness and its world-renowned mixologist, Mr Lyan, design their unique cocktails around ingredients - not classics. These include milk, vinegar, death bitters and mushrooms, all expertly crafted into delicious drinks. Sleek interiors and river views complete the laid-back but serious connoisseur vibe.
Quietly hidden behind a velvet curtain within the Champagne Room at The Connaught, The Red Room contains interiors and artworks from the world's most renowed female artists. Styled as a wine bar, the menu offers delicious charcuterie to pair with the exquisite vintages - all served on a handmade marble trolley.
The interiors at Booking Office 1869, housed inside the St. Pancras Renaissance hotel, get all of the attention, but its sunny rooftop lounge is worthy of equal praise. Laid-back deck chairs, a menu of both classic and signature cocktails, beers, wines and everything in between make it easy to understand why this is a local favourite.
Simply one of London's coolest bars, reminiscing on the post-war 1940s period and designed like an underground tube station, Cahoot's popular Carnaby Street haunt provides entertainment, music and an inventive cocktail list. Drinks are served in everything from hip flasks to milk bottles - don't forget to pick up your entrance ticket from the stationmaster.
The Alchemist's many UK outlets have always been the place to go for the most outlandish and inventive cocktails - liquid nitrogen in teacups, giant bubbles, disco lights and colour changing liqueurs are just the start of the adventure. The atmosphere is always buzzing, whether it's a first date or a girls night out.
Frequently booked out, Mr Fogg's is styled as a speakeasy slash cocktail bar mixing live music and creative cocktails with their signature brand of adventure. Victorian interiors, like the leather-clad drawing room and map room, are the ideal place to select a cocktail; quite contrastingly made by a robot bartender.
Opium in London's Chinatown glows with deep red lighting and warm lanterns, making it feel like a Shanghai speakeasy. It contains three Oriental themed bars, all of which serve experimental cocktails and dim sum. Head to the 'Bartender's Table' for an up close view of the mixologists at work.
One of Kingly Court's many hidden gems, Disrepute celebrates its debaucherous history amid the swinging sixties. Cocktails with individual stories and a lengthy list of wines are all served promptly. You'll need to be a member to enter, but not in the formal sense - jsut download their app.
While you wait for the Detective to solve your case, you can enjoy a thoroughly shaken or stirred 1920s cocktail behind a hidden door at his detective agency. Bootlegging and prohibition are the theme here, and they have fun jazz, swing and blues nights to bolster the mood, plus tasty cocktails named after fictional criminals.
Moto is the UK's first independent sake bar, and the only place to be if you're keen to sample some of Japan's best producers. They have rich, aromatic and hot sake, but try a sake flight to get an in-depth experience. Bento boxes, otsumami and Japanese tapas provide a bite-sized snack .