10 Local London Cocktail Bars With A Difference
Not only is today Friday, it’s also World Cocktail Day, and we’re celebrating by bringing you a list of 10 quirky, local drinking dens, with a difference.
Chocolate Club, London
Located in Farringdon, The Chocolate Club is a UK-first, bar, offering chocolate infused cocktails which range from creamy and intense to cool and refreshing. Each drink is garnished with a treat to get the taste buds flowing, what's not to love...Chocolate and Cocktails!
Cherry Tiger London
Castle Square in Elephant and Castle has welcomed a vibrant new cocktail bar, Cherry Tiger, by Mother Kelly’s, the well-known taproom and bottle shops franchise. The brand’s recent expansion into the cocktail bar scene, is pioneered by founder Nigel Owen, who has decades of experience working in the hospitality and mixology industry across London. Expect a relaxed and welcoming space with delicious cocktails at a reasonable price.
Martinez Cocktail Bar
Martinez invites a community of cocktail connoisseurs, alongside those with a newfound interest in the subtleties, and the exuberant elements, of the cocktail experience. Whilst cocktails lead, they also provide other stimulating drink and food experiences, with an eclectic canopy of music adding colour to your evenings. You can find Martinez tucked away on the first floor of 49 Greek Street,
Roots Cocktail Bar, Stratford - East Village
East Village bars has definitely expanded from its own rough and ready roots, to now include acclaimed cocktail dens, such as Roots, in West Park Walk, East Village, Stratford. Roots is your plant-packed community cocktail bar with indoor and outside seating and cocktails that are fresh and homemade.
Happiness Forgets
Boasting ‘high end cocktails in a low rent basement’, this little Shoreditch cocktail bar find does away with the pomp and circumstance of many bars – instead focusing on serving up blindingly good cocktails – and it works. It’s open from 5pm till 11pm daily and also offers a takeaway and cocktail delivery service!
Moonshine Minnie’s
Tucked away beneath Blues Kitchen Shoreditch is Moonshine Minnie's, where you can enjoy an amazing selection of whiskey-based cocktails, as well as southern American bar snacks and a soundtrack exclusively led by female R&B artists. What’s special is that the cocktails are just £5!
Discount Suit Company
Opened in January 2014 in a former suit tailor’s store room, Discount Suit Company offers classically inspired cocktails served to a soundtrack of Northern Soul and Vintage Rock n Roll. The ever changing experimental cocktail menu includes quirky concoctions such as Captain Cobbler - a dark rum, amontillado sherry, kumquat, ginger and honey marmalade, pink grapefruit and IPA top.
The Mayor Of Scaredy Cat Town.
Literally, hidden beneath The Breakfast Club on Artillery Lane, is The Mayor Of Scaredy Cat Town. Make sure you inform a member of staff that you are “here to see the Mayor'' and you will be directed to the normal-seeming Smeg fridge. You may find yourself wondering whether you have one too many cocktails at this point, but just go with it. The fridge is actually a dingy, candlelit speakeasy, filled with vintage furniture and bizarre wall art, with a cocktail menu that is brimming with weird and wonderful drinks. On Saturday’s & Sunday’s you can indulge in 2 hours of Prosecco, Pornstar Martini’s, Aperol Spritzes, Bloody Mary’s & a Breakfast Club brunch dish for just £45!
The Holy Bar
In the upclass neighborhood of Knightsbridge there’s a mysterious cocktail bar called Holy Bar, which labels itself as ‘the new destination for the curious’. Its design has been inspired by the surrealism of Salvador Dali and the wondrous world of Peter Pan’s Neverland and its botanical cocktails are all inspired by Mother Earth. They offer a set of twelve cocktails, each representing a tarot archetype. Guests are invited to stabilise their energy with a sip of Temperance or allow The Devil to entice you to delve into your darker side, while The Empress reconnects you with your feminine energy and the Wheel of Fortune restores your faith in the universe.
Evans & Peel Detective Agency
There’s a rather novel cocktail bar near Earls Court Olympia that’s run by playboy entrepreneurs with Detective day jobs and a cocktail menu which is based on their biggest and most interesting cases. They offer the‘Worlds Best Old Fashioned’ but it’s off menu’ so you need to ask for it privately.
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