Bar

• The Berkeley launches a brand new bar - The Berkeley Bar and Terrace

  

  One of London’s top hotels, The Berkeley, has gone all secret squirrel on us. They've been working on a brand new bar and opened it without anyone having a clue. Called The Berkeley Bar and Terrace, it's the hotel's second bar, joining The Blue Bar, and will be a pretty cosy, intimate affair by the sounds of things.

  While the terrace part of the equation is going to be pretty

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• Jason Atherton has gone into the theatre bar business with Pavlova's at The Palace Theatre in Victoria

  

  Back in the day, you'd be lucky to get a warm glass of Pinot Grigio waiting for you in a theatre bar during the interval. Now it's quite a different story. Over in Westminster, Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Other Palace has a restaurant by the Naughty Piglets crowd alongside a gin bar, and now the Victoria Palace is following suit.

  The Cameron Mackintosh theatre, where Hamilton is currently playing, has just opened Pavlova's - a new bar

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• Kurabu at Dinings SW3 will serve up street food inspired snacks and drinks in Chelsea

  

  This week, Chelsea is getting a new Japanese 'street food' spot - if you can really count the mezzanine floor of high-end sushi spot Dinings SW3 as 'street'. Well maybe that's as street as Chelsea gets.

  Kurabu will be the name of the restaurant's new lounge space, taking over the area that used to be set aside for private dining. It'll be serving a completely new range of Japanese snacks and cocktails.

  Chef Chef Masaki Sugisaki's menu will feature

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• Alex Kratena and TÁ TÁ Eatery to open Tayer and Elementary on Old St

  When the bartender who ran the World's Best Bar for years prepares to open an all-day bar and restaurant in London with fellow top class mixologist Monica Berg, you better believe people are going to sit up and take notice. And when TÁ TÁ Eatery is in charge of the food? Lucky Old Street.

• Kwant is a hot new cocktail bar by Erik Lorincz underneath Momo

  

  After a huge revamp earlier this year, followed by a rave review by Fay Maschler, there's a lot going on at Momo at the moment. And now they've gone one step further, opening a separate cocktail bar downstairs,

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• Lyaness is the replacement for World's Best Bar Dandelyan at Sea Containers

  

  Over the course of two days last October, top London bartender and bar owner Ryan Chetiyawardana caused quite a storm on the London bar scene when he announced the closure of the hugely popular Dandelyan in the same week as it took the No 1 slot in the World's Best Bars list.

  The bar finally closed earlier this month - but already they've

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• Hacha in Dalston is a tequila and mezcal bar with Mexican sharing plates

  This Dalston tequila and mezcal bar features margaritas on tap, all the agave spirits you could need and is backed up by a Mexican sharing menu. 

• Peckham is getting a mead bar as Gosnells take over upstairs at the Coal Rooms

  

  Gosnells, which is London’s only meadery - and can we pause just for a moment even to to consider how great it is that we have a meadery at all in 2019? - is about to bring its drinks direct to drinkers with the launch of its first bar. The honey-focused set up can be found in an upstairs room above Coal Rooms in Peckham from 8 March and will be of course offering lots of mead, plus small plates from the Coal Rooms kitchen downstairs.

  Gosnells' two

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• The Lip Bar at Selfridges will be part art installation, part beer bar

  

  Selfridges are paying more than just lip service to Valentine's Day this year. (Sorry, we simply couldn't resist). They're launching The Lip Bar - a teeny micro bar experience which is part art installation, part Japanese beer bar.

  It's the brainchild of Japanese artist Daido Moriyama who has covered every inch of the bar with one of his photographs showing a close up of lips. Entry to the bar costs a tenner and that also gets you two drinks - a choice

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• Homeboy Bar brings Irish food, drink and cheer to Islington's Essex Road

  Expect Irish food, drink and hospitality at this Islington bar which is serving up everything from cocktails featuring Barry's Tea to curry chips and Tayto crisps.

• FAM Bar on Duke Street lets you choose the vinyl for a good night out

  This new Duke Street spot hopes to be so welcoming that you view it as a sort of home from home (with better cocktails and food than you'd make yourself).

• Mikkeller Bar and Rick Astley are opening their Shoreditch bar tomorrow

  They're an unlikely pair but gypsy beermaker Mikkel Borg Bjergsø has teamed up with 80s pop icon Rick Astley to open a super hip beer bar in Shoreditch. I know!! 

• The best hotel bars in London right now

  Fancy a martini in swish surroundings? We round up the very best hotel bars in London right now. 

• Anthracite martini bar is opening at the Great Northern Hotel in King's Cross

  Opening up at The Great Northern Hotel is this three roomed martini bar with fabulous views over the area and everything to entice martini lovers to King's Cross.

• London's best bars - Autumn edition

  On the cusp of London Cocktail Week we take a look at London's booming bar scene and pick some spots you're going to want to try...