![]() ![]() How to get in: Get yourself onto Broadwick Street, and find the place that has the number 8 above it. The first of its kind in London, this is exactly the place to go the next time you feel that all-too-familiar desire to lounge in a dimly-lit, dark wood-panelled subterranean hideout in Soho listening to music by cutting edge DJs, drinking salted caramel cocktails and eating desserts perfectly designed to complement them. You know how the best bit of dinner is always cocktails and dessert? Well, Basement Sate have finally capitalised on this truism by serving only cocktails and dessert. Push it open, and head on down.ĭetails: 3 Greek Street, W1D 4BD | Book here How to get in: Peruse the whisky shop, and find the bookshelf at the back. And now, it’s London’s first ever brooding, underground, candlelit cocktail bar with bare brick walls, chesterfield couches, and handmade hardwood tables. Milroy’s was London’s first ever specialist whisky store. How to get in: An inconspicuous brown door on Hanway Street will reveal a staircase, which you should descend.ĭetails: 36 Hanway Street, Soho, W1T 1UP | Book here Their secret bar in central London swaps out the extravagant presentation for inexpensive but excellent drinks like the Silk Punch (Chivas 12, walnut, Vermouth, coffee, and salted Horlicks cream). The folks behind Cocktail Trading Company are at it again. Look for the plain doorway in the entranceway, with a considerably smarter doorman stood beside it.ĭetails: Kingly Court, Soho, W1F 9PY | Book here How to get in: If you’re in the courtyard of Kingly Court, you’ve already gone too far. The younger sibling to possibly the best speakeasy in London (more on which later), Nightjar Carnaby is a louche underground lair hidden below Kingly Court, serving up theatrical, inventive cocktails with a garnish of nightly live music… But instead of joining the merriment in there, go through the extremely boring, office-like doors to the left, and trust that you will be justly rewarded…ĭetails: 12-14 Denman Street, Soho, W1D 7HL | Book here How to get in: Make for the buzzy, packed-out restaurant that is Kricket Soho on Denman Street. ![]() And a good deal of their passion for Indian ingredients makes its way into the cocktails, with concoctions like a curry leaf gimlet and jaggery Old Fashioned on the menu. SOMA comes to you from the same duo behind London’s brilliant Anglo-Indian restaurants, Kricket. There are no bookings here, so cross your fingers and wait for someone to let you in…ĭetails: Inside Brewdog Waterloo, The Sidings, Waterloo Station, London SE1 7BH | No bookings How to get in: Scour Brewdog for a vintage black telephone, and pick it up. Come here for off-the-charts cocktails by mixology pioneer Rich Woods and his crack team of bartenders. Not all those who wander are lost… but many of those who wander round Brewdog Waterloo are looking for Lost Property Office, an intimate cocktail oasis hidden, miraculously, within what has to be one of the loudest pubs of all time. Otherwise, find a door on Gerrard Street that doesn’t lead to a Chinese restaurant, and smile politely through the peephole.ĭetails: 13a Gerrard Street, W1D 5PS | Book here Hidden behind a scruffy-looking, easily-missable door in the bustling heart of Chinatown is this: a moody, legendary, Parisian, prohibition-style speakeasy cocktail den lit almost entirely by candlelight. When you get there, head below…ĭetails: 136 Shaftesbury Avenue, W1D 5EZ | No bookings How to get in: You’re looking for a place called Stone Nest, which is the boarded up old church on Cambridge Circus. ![]() Including being hidden beneath a deconsecrated 19th century church on one of the busiest streets in the city. Lit only by candlelight and sporting a slim, but expertly-concocted menu of cocktails, beers and natural wines, Below Stone Nest is everything a good speakeasy should be. How to get in: Look for the “Opticians” sign on Poland Street, then push the door beneath it with the pig-shaped knocker.ĭetails: 58 Poland Street, W1F 7NR | Book here This slick-looking speakeasy sits proudly above Jason Atherton’s Social Eating House – it boasts both classic and themed cocktail menus, and they’ll bring you food up from the restaurant below. JUMP TO: EAST LONDON | WEST LONDON | SOUTH LONDON | NORTH LONDON NOTE: It’s important to clarify at this point that while most of these bars are hidden behind bookshelves, mirrors, and fridges, some of them are simply very difficult to find. Or, if you’re reading this for a second time, what follows is a list of bars that were tucked away, secret, hidden, or otherwise nearly-impossible-to-find …but are now as familiar to you as the back of your own hand. What follows is a list of the finest tucked-away, secret, hidden, or otherwise nearly-impossible-to-find bars. Secret Bars | The Ultimate London Speakeasy Guide ![]()
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