Venues similar to Ronnie Scott's

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

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

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

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

Remy Savage's Bauhaus-precise cocktail room on Kingsland Road

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

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

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

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.