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The best new bars in London: autumn 2018

By Holly O'Mahony on 1/10/2018

With the return of chillier weather and longer nights, the prospect of spending your evening up high at a blustery rooftop bar isn't quite so appealing, is it? Fear not, because a spate of snug new cocktail bars are opening their doors, while several boozy pop-up events are happening across London this autumn. Here are the ones we're particularly excited to pop corks at.

Visit Idris Elba’s new cocktail bar: The Parrot

Visit Idris Elba’s new cocktail bar: The Parrot

Idris Elba is renowned for his work as an actor, DJ and producer, but now he’s turning his hand to the drinks industry, opening up cocktail bar The Parrot with co-founding twin brothers Lee and Nicky Caulfield. The 60-seater cocktail den can be found at the Waldorf Hilton in Covent Garden, and will host live music nights and ‘A-List surprises’.


In addition to its 'hidden cocktail menu' (although undisclosed, guests can expect drinks to share a tropical theme), small plates cooked up by The Waldorf’s resident Executive Chef Karl Richardson will be served. Oh, and you can request to be picked up by the bar’s own chauffeur-driven car if you want to arrive in true luxury.

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WHEN
October 2018
WHERE
The Waldorf Hilton, Aldwych, London WC2B 4DD
Sip cocktails from the ‘best bar in the world’: The Dead Rabbit pop-up

Sip cocktails from the ‘best bar in the world’: The Dead Rabbit pop-up

For one night only (on 2 October), Londoners can transport themselves from the Sun Tavern in Bethnal Green to NYC’s Dead Rabbit – aka the ‘best bar in the world’. The pop-up coincides with London Cocktail Week (1-7 October), and will showcase three new cocktails – each made using the Dead Rabbit’s own Irish Whiskey – as well as the cocktail bar’s much-loved Irish Coffee. The Irish Whiskey cocktails will continue to be served every Wednesday throughout month, so those who can’t make it down on the 2nd will still have time to sample them.

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WHEN
2 October
WHERE
The Sun Tavern, 441 Bethnal Green Road, London, E2 0AN
Pay tribute to David Bowie and Ziggy Stardust: Ziggy’s

Pay tribute to David Bowie and Ziggy Stardust: Ziggy’s

Back in 1973, David Bowie retired his dramatic alter ego Ziggy Stardust with a final gig at the Hammersmith Odeon, followed by a now legendary party at Café Royal. Dubbed ‘The Last Supper’, the star-studded guestlist saw close friends Mick Jagger, Lou Reed and Paul McCartney come to see Ziggy off. Now Hotel Café Royal is opening a new cocktail bar, Ziggy’s, in honour of the singer. Cocktails on the menu take the theme of moments from Bowie’s life, as well as his famous album: ‘The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars’. Booze-fuelled highlights include the ‘Tiger on Vaseline’, a modern update of 70s classic – the Piña Colada – with Cachaça, Tanaka spiced rum, roasted pineapple juice, lime juice, and homemade coconut and white chocolate foam.

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WHEN
From 20 September
WHERE
Hotel Café Royal, 68 Regent Street, London W1B 4DY
Drink in a rooftop greenhouse: Pergola Olympia

Drink in a rooftop greenhouse: Pergola Olympia

Bars under the Pergola umbrella have been transforming large London rooftops into leafy, boozy watering holes for the past few summers. Great for parties with their communal tables, Instagramable slogan walls and sugary, frozen beverages, these bars could be seen as the rooftop, spirit-infused equivalent of Bavarian beer halls. Now, the Pergola team are opening their first permanent, all-year-round site on the rooftop of West London’s Olympia Exhibition Centre. Unlike its predecessors in White City and Paddington, Pergola Olympia will be a fully-enclosed, greenhouse-style bar, kitted out with glass walls, floors and ceiling. What is being carried over from the sister bars, though, is Pergola’s signature frozen cocktail and street food offering, with Patty & Bun serving burgers, CLAW offering crab rolls and Passo firing out pizzas.

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WHEN
27 September 2018
WHERE
Level 5 Rooftop, Olympia Car Park, Olympia Way, Olympia, West London, W14 8UX
Crack open a canned cocktail: Genuine Liquorette

Crack open a canned cocktail: Genuine Liquorette

Below a diner in New York’s Little Italy is a liquor store with a self-service fridge, from which customers help themselves to beer and wine. This autumn, a Victorian pub in London’s Fitzrovia is being refurbished into a cocktail bar, based – in some part – on the New York liquor store. Here, however, the focus will be on ‘craft cocktails’. Customers will select their chosen concoctions – which have been pre-mixed, canned and shelved in a self-service fridge – before shaking, stirring and mixing them under the guidance of the bar’s mixologists.

WHEN
Opening autumn 2018
WHERE
6 Rathbone Place, Fitzrovia, W1T 1HL
Taste liquid magic: Heads + Tails

Taste liquid magic: Heads + Tails

What happens when industry wizards Will Partridge (Wax Jambu and Kilburn Ironworks) and Chris Dennis (Brixton’s beloved-but-no-more Sovereign Loss and Disrepute) join forces? London gets an exciting new cocktail bar, that’s what. Called Heads + Tails, the bar is taking over former West Hampstead late-night spot Lately. Split over two levels, ground floor bar Heads is bright – flooded with natural light and crowned with a high, lofty ceiling. Meanwhile Tails is dark and moody – all low ceilings, atmospheric dark walls and plush, comfortable seating. The cocktails served mirror the space too, with Heads pouring long, light and refreshing concoctions, while Tails delivers drinks that are short, bold and heavy-on-the-spirits.

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WHEN
mid October 2018
WHERE
175 West End Lane, London, NW6 2LH
Escape to a tropical paradise: Laki Kane

Escape to a tropical paradise: Laki Kane

Self-branded as ‘London’s tropical escape’, Laki Kane is London’s newest rum bar, providing city dwellers – specifically those passing through Islington – with a rum-infused break from the cosmopolitan world at their Upper Street hub. Most cocktails are served in fun, novelty glasses and spruced up with flecks of sugar cane, flowers or green shoots. Meanwhile a line-up of Polynesian dancers and live DJs lend the bar a beach party atmosphere you won’t want to leave.

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WHEN
Now open
WHERE
144-145 Upper Street, London, N1 1QY
Sing your heart out at a show tunes pop-up from NYC: Marie's Crisis

Sing your heart out at a show tunes pop-up from NYC: Marie's Crisis

Far off the beaten tourist trail in New York city is a show tunes bar that’s legendary among locals. Tucked away on a quiet street in Greenwich Village, Marie’s Crisis is a late night bar that sees bartenders and punters alike cluster round a piano to sing along to their favourite Broadway hits, and drown their sorrows in feel-good, musical merriment. For one week only this autumn, the cabaret bar is voyaging across the pond to set up shop in London’s oldest LGBT venue: Marylebone gay pub City of Quebec. No tickets required, just turn up ready to gather round a piano and belt out your favourite musical hits.

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WHEN
30 October – 3 November
WHERE
City of Quebec, 12 Old Quebec Street, Marylebone, London W1H 7AF
Immerse your palate in a multi-sensory wine experience: Vignette Wine

Immerse your palate in a multi-sensory wine experience: Vignette Wine

Looking to brush up on your wine knowledge? Vignette Wine is hosting ‘The Colour Series: Palette to Palate’ – three multi-sensory wine experiences at East London’s Leyden Gallery, offering wine enthusiasts a chance to experiment with new flavours, develop their palate and enhance their sensory skills. Through visual, auditory and virtual reality stimuli, the evenings will create an environment where guests can immerse themselves in different wine aromas. Each evening uses colour as a sensory starting point, beginning with red on 26 September, followed by orange on 24 October, and finishing with white on 21 November.


COST: £55 per head, covering six fine wines and a paired cheese platter

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WHEN
Red: 26 September, 7:00 PM / Orange: 24 October 7:00PM / White: 21 November, 7:00 PM
WHERE
Leyden Gallery, 9 Leyden Street, London E1 7LE
The Alchemist, Covent Garden

The Alchemist, Covent Garden

Smoke billowing cocktails; bubbling concoctions laced with Aperol and Tanqueray; or, the Elixir of Life: these are among the weird and wonderful cocktails on offer at the new Covent Garden branch of immersive cocktail bar, The Alchemist. The new 7,000 sq ft space in St Martin's Lane is home to a swanky, sultry bar and an adjacent 72-cover restaurant serving an all-day menu.

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WHERE
The Alchemist, Covent Garden
63-66 St Martin's Lane, London, WC2N 4JS
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