Bars Worth Finding In London

If you fancy swapping your standard night out for something a little more quirky then join us in raising a glass at these bars with a difference.

The Toy Shop

32 Putney High Street, SW15 1SQ

For adults only! Relive your youth in this carefree Putney cocktail bar. If Peter Pan ever moved he’d relocate to Putney - The Toy Shop with its playful décor is packed full of nostalgia as it honors childhood.

Everything about The Toy Shop is designed with fun in mind – the cocktail menu has weird and wonderful options like alcoholic ice cubes carved into Lego men! The food menu caters for vegetarians and meat eaters alike too with specialties like ‘The Toy Shop BBQ’ - which comes served on your own mini revolving BBQ!

Oh and this place is open way past bedtime.

Everyone loves an ‘Underdog’

51-55 Bethnal Green Road

Concealed in the basement beneath the ever popular BrewDog, Shoreditch is where you’ll find the aptly named Underdog. You'll need to be chaperoned, probably by a very retro-clothed waiter down the stairs where you can expect beer-infused cocktails in a dimly lit bar with an abundance of charm. Bugsy Malone would feel at home here surrounded by snakes curled in jars, random taxidermy and small boxes inexplicably filled with human hair! This non-conformist bar is worth a visit if you’re looking for a drink in a place with a little more speakeasy sparkle.

It’s pretty weird – but we think we like it!

Opium

15-16 Gerrard Street, Chinatown

Only once you have found this place can you sample its incredible cocktails and delicious food. The true definition of a secret bar if ever there was one; Opium is concealed behind a very simple green door - you must buzz to enter and then climb a long dark stairway to the orient above.

Set over three floors the Asian cocktails and food with a contemporary London twist change seasonally making this the perfect destination for an opulent dinner and drinks. We promise you any date will be impressed!

The Mayor of Scaredy Cat Town

12-16 Artillery Lane, Shoreditch, E1 7LS

Here's a nother secret bar in the city championing a new way to look at fridges. You’ll never look at yours the same again!

Enter a basement full of trinkets, vintage furniture and a bar clad in exposed brick and wood – hidden behind a Smeg fridge door!? Only accessible by a cheeky request to see 'The Mayor' at the Breakfast Club bar upstairs, The Mayor of Scaredy Cat Town is a bar with eclectic taste.

The food offering is small but delicious, it stocks only a small selection of spirits but this makes the cocktail list no less creative – we recommend the chilli and lemongrass twist on the Tommy’s Margarita!

Blues Kitchen Shoreditch

134 Curtain Road, Shoreditch, London, EC2A 3AR

If there is one thing we love more than the blues it’s an East London drinking lounge playing the blues!

The menu features favourites like Buffalo wings, steaks and catfish, but it’s the drinks that steal the show with over 100 types of bourbon, draught beers from Hackney Wick and a selection of cocktails.

Set across two floors of this converted Victorian warehouse The Blues Kitchen’s décor is completed with flecked tiling and powerful furniture along with dim lit tables which sing out romance - it’s the perfect place to come to dine in the day and dance through the night.

These are just some of the hidden gems London has to offer – pay them a visit and let us know what you think.

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