Tag: Drinks
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Here’s how London bars are celebrating Negroni Week 2026
Pumpkin spicy latte, who? Negroni Week is back next week, from 21–27 September 2026, so it’s time to raise a glass and celebrate our favourite three-part nectar of gods. The annual celebration, founded by Imbibe and Campari in 2013, sees bars and restaurants around the world serve the classic Negroni alongside their own takes on…
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Brother Marcus is marking 10 years with three exclusive East Mediterranean supper clubs
Brother Marcus is celebrating its tenth anniversary with a new food, film and photography series taking diners from Athens to Crete, with three one-night-only supper clubs planned across London. Ten years is a pretty good excuse for a dinner party. For Brother Marcus, the East Mediterranean restaurant group is making its tenth anniversary a proper…
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Noodle & Beer is sending us to the moon and back with an exclusive mooncake and cocktail pairing for Mid-Autumn festival
Even if you don’t know much about Mid-Autumn Festival (or know nothing at all), you would have seen images of streets and parks light up with huge red lanterns, sometimes shaped like animals or symbols. Something springing to mind? This Chinese and East Asian festival (called Mid-Autumn or Moon festival) marks the end of harvest…
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September in food: The 9 new London restaurants and bars you need to book ASAP
September is a good month to be eating in London. The city is back in full swing, the diary is filling up again and, conveniently, there’s a whole new crop of places to put in it. After the slightly looser pace of summer, this month brings a noticeable shift in the restaurant scene: chefs return…
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Spritz up your life: The 9 must-try aperitifs for summer
What says summer more than a spritz in hand? But after our umpteenth heatwave, even Aperol can start to feel less like a seasonal treat and more like the default order you reach for on autopilot. This summer, we’re looking beyond the usual orange-hued suspects to explore the wider world of aperitifs – from floral…
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August in food: The new restaurants and bars we’ll be booking first
This is peak summer, and while most restaurateurs shy away from launching mid-season (most of London is currently living its best Ibiza life), a handful of restaurants and bars have decided to go all in with an August opening instead, and we’re here for it. This month’s list includes Vagabond’s new Canary Wharf outpost (yes,…
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June in food: the must-know restaurants and bars launching in London this month
Warm days arrive and everyone decides, all at once, that they deserve a seat in a leafy terrace. And rightfully so – this is the time to relish every bit of scorching sun we can get. May was a notably strong month for openings but June is giving us plenty of reasons to make our…
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Award-winning Scarfes Bar has a new Heroes & Villains cocktail menu, and it’s dangerously good
There are bars that serve cocktails, and then there are bars that serve pure art in cocktail form. Scarfes Bar has been doing the latter since it opened in 2014, and its accomplishments over the years have earned it all the bragging rights. Its trophy cabinet includes No. 31 in the World’s 50 Best Bars,…
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April in food: London’s top new restaurants and bars to try this spring
April is the month Londoners collectively lose the plot. The clocks go forward, there are two consecutive days above 14 degrees, and suddenly everyone’s convinced it’s rooftop season, booking outdoor spaces and showing up in a t-shirt and a light jacket. It’s a delusion, but a productive one – and this April, the openings are…
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Strike while the iron is hot: We visited Flipdog, the new Shoreditch bar making cocktails with an iron poker
As keen self-proclaimed cocktail connoisseurs who have done our fair share of laps around London’s bar scene, we’re always on the lookout for the next bar that will shake things up – quite literally. Because in a city where bartenders clarify and ferment almost everything under the sun, innovation isn’t always easy to come by.…
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