Cocktails

• London Cocktail Week 2024 guide

  

  With so many amazing events happening during London Cocktail Week, it's hard to choose which events and bars to go to. The good news is we've done the legwork for you.

• Bar crawl: rainwater martinis and glorious London views at The Emory rooftop bar

  

  One of the world's best bars is popping up for a month at The Emory in Knightsbridge. We went to check out Tato Giovannoni's cocktails and bar food at their rooftop bar.

• Celebrate Nikka whisky's 90th anniversary with 90 Days of Nikka in London

  

  To celebrate their 90th anniversary, Nikka whisky are holding a series of events and experiences in London. Here's our guide to 90 Days of Nikka.

• The Emory x Tato features award-winning Argentinian cocktails on a rooftop now open to all

  

  We’re not sure what snared our attention first: the mesmerising tango takeover videos on The Emory Hotel’s Instagram or the lure of access to a London rooftop that was previously only open for guests. Either way, you need to know that Argentinian bartender ‘Tato’ is bringing his

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• Bar crawl: mezcal martinis and top-tier tostadas at No.23, the new bar at Carousel

  

  Bringing a taste of Mexico to Fitzrovia the new permanent bar at Carousel, No.23, feels like a sure-fire hit.

• Bébé Bob has brought in Mr Lyan for a cocktail menu with caviar bar snacks

  

  There are so many things right with what we're about to tell you, that our one proviso is that when rushing to book you make sure to leave a table free for us. We loved Bébé Bob when we first visited it, and we've been longtime fans of uber-mixologist Ryan Chetiyawardana. The phrase match made in heaven has never sounded so

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• Good Measure is Daddy Bao's new underground bar in Tooting

  

  Tooting folk looking for a new drinking hole are about to get one in the form of a Taiwanese subterranean bar. Good Measure is opening downstairs from popular spot Daddy Bao and will serve up cocktails with a Taiwanese twist.

  The owners have taken inspiration from Taipei's cocktail scene where bars pop up in the most unusual places. Here, in the former storeroom, you'll be drinking

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• Oriole's permanent bar and restaurant comes to Covent Garden, mixing Latin American food with complex cocktails

   

  It's been popping up as Prelude for the past few months but now award-winning bar Oriole is getting ready to move into its shiny new digs in Covent Garden. And like the pop-up, this permanent Oriole is as much a restaurant as it is a bar. 

  Split across two floors, the main restaurant and bar is in the basement, reminiscent of

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• Where to drink the best martinis in London

  

  We LOVE a good martini here at Hot Dinners, so we do feel pretty well qualified to point you towards some of our favourite places to enjoy a martini around London. 

• Bar crawl: trying out the new Lyaness 3.0 cookbook cocktail menu

  

  It's one of the most highly rated bars in the world, now Lyaness has launched a brand new cocktail menu. It was time to make a return visit to try it out.

• Prelude by Oriole is popping up in Covent Garden, then the bar is staying for good

  

  Right at the end of 2022, the very highly rated Oriole cocktail bar closed down in its original location - but with a vow to open somewhere else. Early in 2023, they popped up in Southwark, but now they're getting ready to return for good, this time in Covent Garden. 

  They'll be opening up the new Oriole in The Yards in Covent Garden, the same area where you'll find Lahpet, but

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• London bars sweep the board at 2024's Top 50 Cocktail Bars list

  

  London has pretty much half the bars on this year's Top 50 Cocktail Bars list. Here's which of them made the grade.

• Test Driving Whiskey & Seaweed - Core by Clare Smyth's three-Michelin-starred bar

  

  The new bar at Core by Clare Smyth not only features amazing cocktails but a snacks list with mini versions of the restaurant's signature dishes. We went down to try Whiskey & Seaweed. 

• Best drink and cocktail trolleys in London's bars and restaurants

   

  If you're getting table service, you might as well go the whole hog and get your drinks mixed for you there as well. Here's our guide to London's best cocktail and drinks trolleys for tableside action.

• Atelier Coupette sees the Coupette team serving up cocktails and French small plates in Soho

  

  Fans of Bethnal Green's Coupette, get ready - they're coming to Soho.

  The new bar will be called Atelier Coupette and, as the name suggests, it'll be a bit different from their original bar. Following on from the Sunday sessions in the Bethnal Green which were more experimental events used to create new cocktails, Atelier Coupette is also going to have an

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