Venues similar to A Bar with Shapes for a Name

World's 50 Best No.5, two rooms that split the modern London bar in half

Mr Lyan's South Bank flagship, the first 3-PIN bar in the Pinnacle Guide, Thames at the window

Frith Street's 1959 jazz room, the canonical London jazz club, two sets a night, low ceiling, red lamps

Wentworth Street's unmarked basement, the City fringe speakeasy that does not need a velvet rope

Hoxton Square's basement, the small, no-fuss cocktail room the trade has booked since 2010

Notting Hill's Michelin-starred neighbourhood brasserie, wood-fired grill, retained star 2026

Ravinder Bhogal's no-borders Marylebone room, Indian, East African and South-East Asian cooking, ten years in

Two-floor Old Compton Street cocktail room, aperitivo bar upstairs, three-hundred-whisky lounge below

Dean Street's no-music, no-mobiles holdout, the Soho the audience first read about in the 80s

Shoreditch's whisky reference, 250 bottles, no cocktails, a single felled-oak table

Karam Sethi's Marylebone coastal-Indian, one Michelin star held since 2012

The Holland Park-edge neighbourhood restaurant the W11 regulars send each other to

The wine-magazine bar, Mark Andrew and Daniel Keeling's Bloomsbury original since 2015

Clare Smyth's three-Michelin-star Notting Hill flagship, modern British cooking at the peninsula's ceiling

Brett Graham's Notting Hill three-star, regained and ranked London's best for 2026

The Dirik family ocakbaşı since 1994, the canonical Turkish address the audience takes London-Turks to

Ed Wilson's Columbia Road natural-wine bistro, the East End's most consistent neighbourhood kitchen

The 1893 hotel bar that wrote the cocktail manual the rest of London still reads

UK's No.1 gastropub 2026, the Soho Guinness pour and the dining room above it

Milroy's reborn under the No. 3 door, Greek Street's whisky merchant and bookcase-speakeasy bar since 1964, rebranded 2024