London after dark spans cocktail bars, live-music rooms and late-night clubs. Our selection maps the best of the city's nightlife, from where to start the evening to where to end it.
Best Bars & Clubs in London: The best options include The Connaught Bar in Mayfair, Swift Soho in Soho, American Bar at The Savoy in Strand. We've curated 15 venues across London's top neighborhoods based on quality, atmosphere, and guest reviews.
| Venue | Neighborhood | Price |
|---|---|---|
| The Connaught Bar | Mayfair | $$$$ |
| Swift Soho | Soho | $$$ |
| American Bar at The Savoy | Strand | $$$$ |
| Lyaness | Bankside | $$$ |
| Tayēr + Elementary | Old Street | $$$ |
| A Bar with Shapes for a Name | Haggerston | $$$ |
| The French House | Soho | $$ |
| Ronnie Scott's | Soho | $$$ |
| Discount Suit Company | Aldgate | $$$ |
| Happiness Forgets | Hoxton | $$$ |
Mayfair
Agostino Perrone's silver-trolley martini and a room that has spent a decade at or near the top of the World's 50 Best Bars list.
Soho
Two-floor Old Compton Street cocktail room, aperitivo bar upstairs, three-hundred-whisky lounge below
Strand
The 1893 hotel bar that wrote the cocktail manual the rest of London still reads
Bankside
Mr Lyan's South Bank flagship, the first 3-PIN bar in the Pinnacle Guide, Thames at the window
Old Street
World's 50 Best No.5, two rooms that split the modern London bar in half
Haggerston
Remy Savage's Bauhaus-precise cocktail room on Kingsland Road
Soho
Dean Street's no-music, no-mobiles holdout, the Soho the audience first read about in the 80s
Soho
Frith Street's 1959 jazz room, the canonical London jazz club, two sets a night, low ceiling, red lamps
Aldgate
Wentworth Street's unmarked basement, the City fringe speakeasy that does not need a velvet rope
Hoxton
Hoxton Square's basement, the small, no-fuss cocktail room the trade has booked since 2010
Bermondsey
Bermondsey Street's standing-room Spanish bar since 2011, José Pizarro's pintxos counter
Bloomsbury
The wine-magazine bar, Mark Andrew and Daniel Keeling's Bloomsbury original since 2015
Hackney
Michael and Charlotte Sager-Wildeve's Hackney Road wine bar, the East London natural-wine reference since 2013
Shoreditch
Shoreditch's whisky reference, 250 bottles, no cocktails, a single felled-oak table
Soho
Milroy's reborn under the No. 3 door, Greek Street's whisky merchant and bookcase-speakeasy bar since 1964, rebranded 2024