It’s Tuesday night in Scales, Mayfair and an American voice intones, with a balance of solemnity and enthusiasm: “We gotta taste the goat.” Read onBar Tab: Scales, Mayfair
A visit to Tayēr + Elementary raises questions about ‘world’s best bars’ lists, galactico salaries, marathons, hip hop and plums, I suppose Read onBar Tab: Tayēr + Elementary, London
How do you compress more than a decade into two rounds of drinks? You skip lightly over the negative and dull, order a third. Read onBar Tab: A Bar with Shapes for a Name, Hoxton, London
Of course London has dive bars. And why would you choose the sanitised, stylings of a faux dive when you could have the real thing? Read onBar Tab: Monty’s, Brick Lane, London
Síbín is not the illegal watering hole of your Irish grandpappy, but a high-end shrine to the very legitimate business of whisky Read onLuxuriate: Síbín, Great Scotland Yard Hotel
Once “the most important venue in the history of pop music”, see how the former Marquee Club scrubs up in modern Soho. Read onLuxuriate: 100 Wardour Street