The Do Not Disturb Review: The 1920s Speakeasy of Garlick Hill | A superb, beloved discreet speakeasy cocktail bar on Garlick Hill in the City of London, with a 1920s New York spirit, barrel-aged cocktails, a hidden charm and a warm welcome
The Lucky Pig Review: The Hidden Prohibition-Style Cocktail Den of Fitzrovia | A quirky, hidden basement cocktail den on Clipstone Street in Fitzrovia, a Prohibition-style speakeasy with a top-hatted doorman, shabby-chic decor and classic cocktails with a twist
The Luggage Room Review: The Hidden 1930s Speakeasy Cocktail Bar of Mayfair | A hidden, 1930s-styled speakeasy cocktail bar in Mayfair near Grosvenor Square, evoking the golden age of travel, an intimate, characterful spot for expertly-made cocktails
The Bootlegger Review: The New Speakeasy of Covent Garden | A new, high-energy speakeasy cocktail bar in Covent Garden with signature serves, live music and big-energy nights, a genuinely fun new arrival to the scene, and very much one to watch
The Archive and Myth Review: The Hidden Speakeasy Below the Hippodrome | A superb, beloved hidden speakeasy cocktail bar below the Hippodrome on Leicester Square, reached by a secret door, with inventive cocktails, a clandestine charm and a warm welcome, a genuine gem
Lockdown City Island Review: A Cheeky Name on the New Island | A well-scored bar on the new City Island development, flying a cheeky, of-the-moment name that plays on the speakeasy and the island’s ring of water
Behind This Wall: A Hidden Bar That Names Its Own Secret | A Hackney bar whose intriguing name plays on the thrill of the hidden venue – the treasure that lies, quite literally, behind the wall
The Blind Spot Review: The Hidden Speakeasy of St Martin’s Lane | A glamorous, hidden speakeasy cocktail bar behind a secret golden-hand door in the St Martin’s Lane hotel, with globe-trotting cocktails, dim-lit glamour and a warm welcome
The Escapologist Review: The Victorian Secret-Society Cocktail Bar of Covent Garden | A superb, atmospheric subterranean cocktail bar in Covent Garden, themed around a Victorian secret society, a genuinely immersive speakeasy for expertly-made cocktails and a warm welcome
The Bootlegger Review: The Speakeasy Live-Music Bar of Lime Street | A superb, characterful speakeasy-style live-music cocktail bar on Lime Street in the City of London, with a Prohibition-era spirit, good cocktails, live music and a warm welcome
Little Orange Door Review: A 4.7, and the Door Is Doing the Work | Fifteen hundred people, a hidden-flat concept, and a puzzle is not the same as a rope
Lounge Bohemia Review: You Have to Make an Appointment | No walk-ins, no groups over four, and no suits – and it is the most restrictive door policy in six postcodes
The Den Review: A Name That Promises a Hiding Place | Sixty-four reviews, a 4.5, fifty to sixty pounds, and a word that means somewhere an animal goes to not be found
The Secret Bar Review: The Hidden Thrill of the Concealed Venue | The secret bar plays on the great modern craze for the hidden, the concealed, and the thrill of the speakeasy
Secret Bar Review: The Last Article, and It Has No Rating at All | Six hundred and forty-seven articles, five postcodes, four hundred and seventy venues – and it ends with nothing
Escapologist Review: Houdini Performed a Few Streets Away | He was a locksmith’s apprentice who discovered that the lock is never the point. The audience is the point.
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
Lucky Pig Review: The Pig as a Symbol of Fortune | A 4.3 basement cocktail bar named after the pig, which across much of the world means luck, prosperity, and good fortune
1920 Bar Review: The Jazz Age and the Glamour of Prohibition | A 4.3 bar named 1920, evoking the Roaring Twenties, the Jazz Age, and the glamour of the speakeasy era
The Racketeer Review: A 4.8 Named After Organised Crime | A high-scoring cocktail bar named after the racketeer, the Prohibition-era gangster who ran the protection and extortion rackets
CellarDoor Review: Cabaret in a Former Victorian Toilet | London’s smallest cabaret bar, in a converted Victorian public toilet once haunted by Oscar Wilde, now serving cocktails, snuff, and nightly drag
The Back Room Review: The Secret Space Behind the Bar | The back room is where the real business happens – the hidden, private space that has always carried a whiff of the illicit
The Vault Review: A Bar Named After Where You Lock Things Away | A 4.5 cocktail bar promising the underground, the secure, and the hidden – three things a basement bar sells at a premium
The Mind Palace Review: The Sherlock Speakeasy Hidden Behind an Optician’s | A Sherlock-themed speakeasy cocktail bar hidden behind a disguised optician’s in the W12 centre, with immersive cocktails, deduction mini-games and case-file mementoes
Downstairs at Sucre Review: The Basement, Named Honestly at Last | A 4.5 basement bar beneath a restaurant called Sucre – French for sugar – that names its own location with unusual candour
The Bar with No Name Review: The Paradox of Naming the Nameless | A 4.6 cocktail bar named, paradoxically, The Bar with No Name, turning its own anonymity into its identity
The Bootlegger Vault Review: The Speakeasy Thrill of Prohibition | A speakeasy-style bar named ‘The Bootlegger Vault’ – evoking the illicit thrill, glamour and jazz of the Prohibition era
