Cocktails

• Ladies and Gentlemen Bar open their second bar L&G Camden

  Kentish Town's award-winning bar Ladies and Gentlemen have opened their second cocktail spot, taking over the former public loos outside Camden Road station. 

• Test Driving Blacklock Shoreditch - the one with its own bar

  Blacklock's third restaurant, in Shoreditch, turns out to be a light-filled dining room with a cracking cocktail list as well as all manner of meat treats. 

• We stop by Dandelyan, The World’s Best bar, to sample their final cocktail menu

  In case you hadn’t already heard, Dandelyan - recently crowned World’s Best Bar 2018 - is set to close in March 2019. We stopped by to check out their fifth and final menu. 

• 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).

• Selfridges' Christmas cabaret club features drinks by Bistrotheque and Nyetimber

  

  If you've been wondering what lies behind the foil wrapped doors of Selfridges Ultralounge on their lower ground floor (we spotted it this weekend and stole in for a quick look) then let us enlighten you.

  It's all part of an adult-only cabaret extravaganza that's been devised for the Oxford Street store for the festive season. Glyn Fussell, the co-founder and Creative Director of East Creative, is responsible for the revue while folk including drag stars

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• Angelina Restaurant will mash up Italian and Japanese food and drink on Dalston Lane

  Expect to see a modern take on Japanese and Italian food in this new Dalston restaurant which also sports a tiny Tokyo-style cocktail bar.

• The Baileys Treat Bar is popping up again in Covent Garden for Christmas

  

  If you're as partial to a bit of Baileys as we are come Christmas then you'll probably be pretty merry to hear that their Christmas pop up Treat Bar is coming back.

  They popped up last year serving up boozy hot chocolate, cocktails and other treats and they're back again. So you can order up one of their specials - like Made in Chelsea folk or The Marshmallowist Oonagh Simm's limited edition Baileys marshmallows served over the classic on ice or salted

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• Breddos revamp their Soho basement to create their new taco and margarita bar

  

  News reaches us of the transformation of Breddos' basement area into their brand new taco and margarita bar, Cocteleria. For all your Soho Margarita needs - this could be the place to be...

  The subterranean area has had something of a revamp and they're bringing in a new menu to go with that. Frozen margaritas will be on the menu, of course, and if you can tear yourselves away from those, other

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• Happy Face and SUPERMAX promise pizza and late night cocktails for King's Cross

  The team behind Spiritland are opening their second King's Cross venue over on Handyside Street, featuring a ground level pizza restaurant and basement late night licence cocktail bar.

• The Connaught has a new townhouse which the martini trolley will visit

  

  We're sure there are plenty of high net work travellers who'll be most impressed by the baby grand piano or the Mark Newson pedestal for Taschen books in The Connaught's new townhouse. Us? It's all about the martini trolley.

  The Mayfair hotel has just unveiled a new three-storey mews house for VIP guests. The Mews gives guests their own home in Mayfair - just with all the attendant services of the hotel next door.

  So if you fancy a

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• 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. 

• La Barra is serving up tacos and cocktails on Brixton's Market Row

  This Market Row spot is the first bricks and mortar space for Joshua Whiting - one half of popular quesadilla team Killa Dilla - and he's planning slow roast meat tacos and pre-batched cocktails for the Brixton crowd.

• 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 Dandelyan is the World's Best Bar for 2018

  

  The World's 50 Best Bars 2018 were revealed last night with Dandelyan, Ryan Chetiyawardana’s bar at the Mondrian Hotel claiming top spot.

  In a surprise move,Chetiyawardana announced in an Instagram post earlier this week that he would be ‘killing off’ the bar. "Iit makes sense to burn it down, start afresh, and rise again as something brighter, shinier and more fitting of where we’re (all) now at." he said. But will he still do that, now

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• 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...