Piano Restaurant Review: The Glamorous Persian Bar and Lounge of Chiswick | A glamorous Persian restaurant, cocktail bar and shisha lounge on Chiswick High Road, with a grand piano, hand-painted murals, live music and a luxury cocktail bar
Tequila Mockingbird Review: The Multi-Level Party Bar of Putney High Street | A stylish, multi-level party bar on Putney High Street, with a bright ground floor, a weekend basement dance floor, and a Riverside Secret Garden with Thames views and pizzas
The Chapel Bar Review: The Stylish and Well-Loved London Bar | A stylish, well-loved London bar with an excellent rating, warmly received for its atmosphere, drinks and welcome
Clapham North Review: The Bar That Simply Tells You Where You Are | Named for the Tube station and the area, Clapham North is honest, plain, and rooted in its own patch of London
Ester Review: 4.7, and It Is Small, and That Is the Whole Prediction | Seven postcodes and six hundred venues, and there is exactly one variable that has ever predicted anything
Three Eight Four Review: The Address as a Modern Cocktail Name | A celebrated Brixton cocktail bar named simply for its address – the number as a clean, modern, distinctive identity
Be At One Review: The Cocktail Bar of Harmony and Oneness | ‘Be at one’ means to be in harmony, united, at peace – a serene and aspirational name for a lively cocktail chain
Piano Kensington Review: Somebody Is Playing and Nobody Is Listening | The hardest job in music is performing to a room that has not come to hear you, and doing it for four hours
Lost and Found Review: The Phrase of Things Mislaid and Recovered | ‘Lost and found’ is the place mislaid things are reclaimed – a name rich with the poetry of losing, searching, and finding again
Lost Society Review: The Glamorous Hint of a Vanished World | ‘Lost Society’ evokes a vanished world of glamour and decadence – the faded grandeur of a society that has slipped away
Bluethroat Review: The Rare and Beautiful Little Songbird | The bluethroat is one of Britain’s rarest and most beautiful little birds – a jewel of a name for a top-rated Brixton bar
MOOD In The Park Review: The Stylish Cocktail Spot by the Green | A stylish cocktail bar named ‘MOOD In The Park’ – promising the right mood, good cocktails and a lovely position by the green
The Cocktail Club Review: The Art and Glamour of the Cocktail | A lively cocktail bar celebrating the cocktail itself – the glamorous, artful, endlessly creative mixed drink at the heart of the good night out
Jazu Bar Review: The Stylish Cocktail Bar of the Night | A stylish cocktail bar named ‘Jazu’ – the craft of the cocktail, the buzz of the night, and the pleasures of the modern bar
Little Orange Door Review: The Bar Disguised as a Flat | Designed to feel like a friend’s home, with rooms styled as a kitchen and living room – the domestic bar taken to a charming extreme
Stables Bar Review: 4.9 From 851 People Should Not Be Possible | The highest genuine rating in this entire survey, on a sample large enough that we cannot explain it away
The Space Bar Review: The Cleverest Pun in the Keyboard | A witty modern name playing on the ‘space bar’ of the keyboard – and on the wide-open space of a good bar
Side Hustle Review: The Phrase Should Worry You | A side hustle is a second job. We have given it a cheerful name and stopped asking why anybody needs one.
The Alchemist Review: The Magic of the Theatrical Cocktail | A famous cocktail bar themed around alchemy – the ancient art of transformation, reborn as theatrical, magical, transforming cocktails
North Circle Bar Review: A Name That Sounds Like a Ring Road | The North Circular is one of London’s great orbital roads. A bar has borrowed a very similar name, for reasons unclear
Leopard Bar Review: The Spots That Never Change | The leopard is beauty, danger and the proverb about spots that cannot change – a glamorous, dangerous name for a bar
Be At One Richmond Review: The Cocktail Bar of Harmony and Fun | The Richmond outpost of Be At One – the lively cocktail chain whose name promises harmony, unity and the joyful fun of great cocktails
Piano Kensington Review: The Instrument at the Heart of the Bar | The piano bar is a whole tradition – live music, a singer, and an instrument whose name means ‘soft’ and ‘loud’ at once
Emory Rooftop Review: London’s Newest Ultra-Luxury Hotel Bar | Eighty-two reviews, a 4.6, and a rooftop on top of one of the most expensive hotels ever built in the city
Stables Bar Review: Where the Horses Were, the Cocktails Now Are | A 4.9 bar from 851 reviews named Stables Bar, evoking the converted stable, one of London’s favourite bar transformations
Bbar Review: A Letter, Doubled, and a South African Heart | Bbar brings a taste of South Africa to Victoria – and its doubled B is a small piece of modern branding cleverness
Stables Bar Review: Drinking Where the Horses Once Lived | Half of Belgravia’s best pubs were built for the horses and grooms. This one keeps the name, with a 4.9 to show for it
Naked and Famous Review: A Bar Named for a Modern Cocktail Classic | A 4.5 bar from 85 reviews named Naked & Famous, after the celebrated modern mezcal cocktail of the same name
Hugs & Bites Review: Warmth and Food in a Single Name | A 4.4 Mediterranean restaurant and bar whose name promises the two things everyone actually wants from an evening out
Bar 190 Review: Where the Rolling Stones Launched Beggars Banquet | A 4.3 cocktail bar from 309 reviews at The Gore Hotel, the rock ‘n’ roll bar where the Rolling Stones threw their 1968 album party
