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

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

Chet Sharma's one-Michelin-star Mayfair Indian, the JKS room that reframed regional Indian cooking in 2021.