Try newly opened speakeasy-themed cocktail bar, The Hidden in Paddington with our exclusive reader deal.

Offer: 50% off all signature cocktails and nibbles

Where: Smith’s Bar & Grill, 25 Sheldon Square, Paddington, London, W2 6EY

When: 17 January – 18 February (excluding 14/15 February)

The team behind popular Peckham venue Kudu are opening a new tapas restaurant and cocktail bar, both on the same road as the original. 

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

One easy recommendation for a great bar in London has always been the downstairs bar at Hawksmoor Spitalfields. Now, for the first time in nearly a decade, they've brought in a completely new cocktail list.

The 26 new drinks, many of which we tried on a preview the other week, capitalise on Hawksmoor’s second win for Best International Restaurant Bar at the prestigious Tales of the Cocktail awards in New Orleans earlier this year.

Behind the

The World's 50 Best Bars 2019 were revealed last night with New York’s Dante claiming the top spot. The top-ranked New York Bar which has seen multiple residencies in London over the past few years placed above London’s top bars The Connaught and The American Bar at the Savoy.

Also in the top 10 were more of our favourite international drinking spots, now familiar names due to regular popups and takeovers –

With so many amazing events happening during London Cocktail Week, particularly for this year's 10th anniversary, it's hard to choose where to go. Happily our Drinks Editor Louis Fernando has done the legwork for you.

If you've been to Anne-Sophie Pic's restaurant La Dame de Pic, you'll know that one of the highlights of the meal is the very impressive millefeuille dessert at the end. It's VERY instagrammable. Now she's bringing the millefeuille to Selfridges - but as a trio of three flavours. 

They'll be on offer at The Fount Bar by Ryan Chetiyawardana (aka Mr Lyan) on the shop's ground floor. There will

A Hot Dinners exclusive

Regular readers of Hot Dinners will know that we're keen supporters of the Irish in London. As second-generation Irish ourselves we're always delighted to be able to bring Londoners a taste of Ireland here in this city.

But we couldn't be more thrilled to break the news that one of our favourite food bloggers and authors Niamh Shields - better known to some of you as

The team behind Bun House have turned this, their first restaurant in Soho, into a late-night drinking dive where the food and cocktails compete for your attention.

BAO Fitz is kicking off the Autumn with a series of late-night bar takeovers, every one of which sounds worth attending. They've invited three really interesting bars from across the globe to London. Each will be in town for one night when they'll serve up a special drink and BAO will be pairing that with dishes including - wait for it - a one-off katsu sando creation. Each drink will then be on offer for the following week.

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North Greenwich is getting a dining and drinking emporium mixing Aussie coffee know-how with South American food inspiration.

A top cocktail bar and casual dining room side by side provide the perfect evening out in East London.

For National Martini Day or really any day of the week really, we share with you some of our favourite places to enjoy a martini around London.

The holder of the best bar in the world for four years and the TA TA Eatery team have joined forces on Old Street. We went down for cocktails, sandos and much more.

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