Venues similar to Black Rock

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Michael and Charlotte Sager-Wildeve's Hackney Road wine bar, the East London natural-wine reference since 2013

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.

Jacob Kenedy's region-by-region Italian counter on Archer Street, every dish labelled by province, eighteen years deep

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

A 15-cover Michelin-starred tasting room inside Blue Mountain School, cooking is the only headline

A 40-cover kitchen-and-natural-wine warehouse under the Bermondsey arches, chef Steve Williams

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

Eighteenth-century Lexington Street townhouse with a handwritten daily menu, the last romantic room in old Soho

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

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