Belle Livingstone’s 58th Street Country Club, Peckham | A Peckham dining room named after a real Prohibition speakeasy queen who kept goldfish, indoor mini-golf and a very relaxed attitude to the Volstead Act
Archive and Myth Review: The Two Ways London Keeps Its Past | A 4.8 from a hundred and twenty-four people, and a name that accidentally describes this entire survey
The 40 Elephants Review: Named After the Gang That Robbed This Street | Alice Diamond’s all-female shoplifting syndicate raided the West End for decades. There is now a cocktail bar honouring them, in the West End.
Dovetail Bar Review: Sixteen Seats and a Perfect Score | Covent Garden’s smallest serious cocktail bar has a 4.9 rating, and a capacity problem that is doing all the work
Reverend J W Simpson Review: A Cocktail Bar in a Former Brothel | A 4.4 basement bar named after a clergyman, in premises whose past was distinctly less reverent than the name suggests
Little Violet Door Review: 4.8, and It Is Behind a Little Violet Door | The name is a set of directions, which after five hundred and fifty articles is a considerable relief
Bootlegger Review: The Other One Has a 5.0 From Twenty-Two People | Same chain, same concept, two branches – and one has five hundred reviews and the other has twenty-two, and the difference is everything
Evans and Peel Review: State Your Case, Then Enter the Bookcase | You book an appointment, present a case to a detective, and he swings open a bookcase to a hidden 1920s speakeasy – the real thing, done properly
