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• Pitchside at Tobacco Dock is aiming to be the UK's biggest sports bar

  

  When it comes to football, Boxpark Croydon really has carved a space out for itself as the place to be. However, with the World Cup coming up in November, a new contender to the crown is incoming. 

  Skylight in Tobacco Dock is the challenger, with its new venue Pitchside opening within the second level of the warehouse. They're billing it as the biggest sports bar

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• Cavita's basement cocktail bar Mayahuel is now open in Marylebone.

  

  Two months after she opened her Mexican restaurant, Cavita, chef Adriana Cavita is now ready to unveil her cocktail bar and mezcaleria Mayahuel. Situated underneath the restaurant but with its own entrance on Wigmore Street, Mayahuel looks every bit as enticing as the restaurant

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• Test Driving Valderrama's - James Cochran's modern sports bar in Islington

  

  Chef James Cochran has opened a modern day sports bar down the road from his Islington restaurant. We popped in for a look.

• James Cochran is opening Valderrama's on Islington's Upper Street - a sports bar with fried chicken

  

  James Cochran is adding a new venture to Upper Street Islington (his restaurant 12:51 is just up the road) but this time it's quite different to his previous place. He's opening a sports bar called Valderrama's.

  It's named after the Colombian 90's football captain and sports will be a big part of the venture, with screens dotted all around the bar (we

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• Roxanne is a hip-hop speakeasy from the Dirty Bones team in Shoreditch

  

  The people behind Dirty Bones have something very different planned for their next opening. They're about to open a hip hop speakeasy in Shoreditch called Roxanne (which happens to be just around the corner from the Shoreditch Dirty Bones). 

  Named after The Roxanne

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• Test Driving Kol Mezcaleria - the Michelin-starred restaurant's hidden bar

   

  Did you know that Michelin-starred Kol in Marylebone also has a very impressive bar in the basement? We headed down to check it out. 

• Wagtail bar and restaurant will be a City rooftop bar with one hell of a view

  

  The City is getting a new rooftop bar and restaurant from the team behind Aviary at Finsbury Square. Wagtail will take over the rooftop space of the old House of Fraser building on King William Street. It's by Maven Leisure which itself is owned by the team behind ETM Group who operate, among others, Aviary, The Botanist on Sloane Square and the Chiswell Street Dining Rooms in Moorgate. And they've brought in some

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• Mr Fogg's Apothecary comes to Mayfair

   

  Mr Fogg's have opened bars across town, and now they're ready for their eighth - this time right in the heart of Mayfair, just down the road from Claridge's.

  Mr Fogg's Apothecary takes the familiar look of the other bars - it's based on Phileas Fogg, has a Victorian feel and it's designed with references to Around the World in 80 Days. It's taking over what used to be the Balls Brothers, but

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• The Act sees London's theatreland hit Notting Hill with a live singing bar

  

  The people behind Soho's Freedom Bar and Soho Residence are heading west to Notting Hill for their next, The Act. As the name hints, it'll be a little more than a standard bar, being dubbed a "theatre bar".

  So what exactly is a theatre bar in practice? Apparently, you can expect "live vocals from London’s top chanteurs" and they'll also have pop-up appearances from London stage shows too. All that sounds great particularly if you're a

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• Nightjar Carnaby sees the top bar go central

  

  Nightjar's original near Old Street has been long revered as one of London's greatest bars, and now its getting a sibling in Carnaby. 

  Echoing the original as closely as they can, the decor will be 1920s in vibe and there will be a stage too - live music will be just as big a part of the bar in Carnaby as it is at the first Nightjar.

  The cocktail menus will evoke the early 20th Century,

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• The Standard adds Sweeties cocktail bar to its tenth floor

  

  While there's already Decimo up on the tenth floor of The Standard hotel in King's Cross, they're about to get a neighbour up on the same floor with the launch of the hotel's new cocktail bar - Sweeties. 

  The new bar is aiming for "early 1970s Hollywood opulence" which is translating to lots of velvet sofas. mirrored tables and what they're referring to as "a six-foot antique phallic

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• Silverleaf will be a destination cocktail bar for The City

   

  The City isn't blessed with an abundance of the best cocktail bars right now, but that looks about to change with the latest addition to the new Pan Pacific hotel. 

  The hotel opened before Christmas, but now it's getting ready to unveil Silverleaf, its cocktail bar - and it's brought in an impressive team to do so. That's Chris Tanner and Simo of Soho's Millroy's

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• The best bars in London right now

  

  From swanky hotel bars to East London dives, we pick out the very best places for liquor in London right now. 

• Abandon Ship sails from Scotland to Covent Garden

  

  Abandon Ship are pretty big in Scotland (there are two Abandon Ship bars there already and the group behind them has 13 in total) and now they're getting ready to launch in Covent Garden. 

  Taking over what used to be PIx, their London bar comes with a design that they're describing as a "sensory explosion", so it should definitely stick out in Covent Garden. We'd say it seems closest to

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• Amaro is a new cocktail bar for Kensington with an impressive pedigree

  

  Just as London's finishes hosting the 50 Best Bars awards, another very promising bar is opening in Kensington. 

  Amaro is the passion project of Elon Soddu, previously Head Mixologist of The Savoy. Elon and his bar team all have experience in five-star

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