The Best Cocktail Bars In Mayfair
Whether you’re after fishbowls of tropical cocktails or martinis tailored to your exact specifications, let Mayfair’s skilled bartenders shake, stir and garnish their way into your heart as you sip expertly crafted drinks in lavish settings.
1. Connaught Bar
Bar, Contemporary
2. CircusXO
Bar, Cocktail Bar, Contemporary
The drinks here aren’t the chicly stirred martinis you find at other Mayfair bars. They’re loud, brash and altogether delicious. You could find yourself supping from a fishbowl the size of your face, but the contents will be a million miles away from the sugary punch-bowl concoctions of your youth. Expertly designed cocktails are served in takeaway containers, plastic bags and a ceramic human heart. The neon-lit bar is located below StreetXO, known for its cutting-edge fusion food, and CircusXO’s self-titled ‘liquid cuisine’ helps further that reputation.
3. Mr Fogg’s Residence
Bar, Cocktail Bar, British, Tea
4. Dickie's Bar
Bar, Cocktail Bar, Irish, British, American
The ingredients used at Dickie’s Bar (located inside chic restaurant Corrigan’s) travel directly from farm to glass, brought from chef Richard Corrigan’s County Cavan estate in Ireland. The bucolic fantasy is taken further with the sketches of country life in the menu. Gregory Buda, a mixologist from New York’s well-regarded Dead Rabbit bar, is mixing the drinks. From yellow bell pepper to hazelnut, the flavours here are intense and unusual, and will leave you wanting more.
5. Mahiki
Bar, Cocktail Bar, Contemporary
6. Hush
Bar, Cocktail Bar, Restaurant, British, French
7. Hawksmoor Air Street
Bar, Cocktail Bar, Restaurant, British, Steakhouse, Seafood
Hawksmoor may be renowned as one of the best places to get a steak in London, but this branch knocks up a great cocktail, too. The restaurant’s wood-panelled bar is a great place to hang out for a few drinks, with a bar staff that really know their stuff. Their four-part cocktail menu, with sections including “Anti-Fogmatics” and “Bridging Drinks”, offers a delightful, surprising mix of libations, from the Full-Fat Old Fashioned to the Rise & Brine.
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