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This year’s full list of the UK’s Top 50 Cocktail Bars has just been revealed, and bars from London have absolutely dominated the list. Are we proud? Pleased as punch, as it happens.
The 2024 list, which was compiled by a booze-friendly panel of bartenders, drinks writers, industry figures and influencers, was announced at a ceremony earlier this week (February 6), and features a stonking 24 bars from London in the Top 50. That’s nearly half!
The highest ranking London bar was Bethnal Green’s Satan’s Whiskers, which was last year’s winner, but came in second place this time around, while Swift Soho was seventh, Amaro Bar on Kensington High Street was eighth, and Tayēr + Elementary on Old Street was tenth. The list was topped by a bar in Manchester.
Other London cocktail bars to make the list include Dalston's Three Sheets, The Connaught Bar in Mayfair, Crossroads in Newington Green, Little Mercies in Crouch End, Scarfes Bar in Holborn, and Lyaness on the South Bank, many of which are on our own list of London’s best bars.
Here’s the full list of the Top 50 Cocktail Bars in the UK right now.
- Schofield’s Bar – Manchester
- Satan’s Whiskers – London
- Passing Fancies – Birmingham
- Couch – Birmingham
- Hey Palu – Edinburgh
- Blinker – Manchester
- Swift Soho – London
- Amaro Bar – London
- Panda and Sons – Edinburgh
- Tayēr + Elementary – London
- Kwãnt –London
- Speak in Code – Manchester
- Three Sheets –London
- 🔶🟥🔵 – London
- Murder Inc – London
- Tabula Rasa – Leeds
- Lab 22 – Cardiff
- Filthy XIII – Bristol
- Crossroads – London
- The Connaught Bar – London
- Project Halcyon – Manchester
- SOMA – London
- Eve Bar – London
- Side Hustle – London
- The Hideout – Bath
- Little Mercies – London
- Below Stairs – Leeds
- Silverleaf – London
- Bar Termini – London
- Seed Library – London
- Charlie Brown’s – Glasgow
- Bramble Bar & Lounge – Edinburgh
- Scarfes Bar – London
- Happiness Forgets – London
- The Absent Ear – Glasgow
- 69 Colebrooke Row – London
- Artesian – London
- Callooh Callay – London
- Fox and Chance – Birmingham
- The Milk Thistle – Bristol
- Nauticus – Edinburgh
- Public – Sheffield
- The Gate – Glasgow
- Nightjar – London
- Ojo Rojo – Bournemouth
- The Wildcat – Edinburgh
- Lyaness – London
- Pennyroyal – Cardiff
- Bench – Sheffield
- The American Bar – Auchterarder
You can check out the list in full on the official Top 50 Cocktail Bars website here.
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