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A bunch of new London bars have been added to the prestigious Pinnacle Guide, which is kind of like the Michelin Guide but for bars instead of restaurants.
The Pinnacle Guide launched last year and hands out one, two or three ‘Pins’ to bars that are either ‘excellent’, ‘outstanding’ or ‘exceptional’. And a bunch of new one and two Pin bars have just been announced, including 10 in London.
Dover Yard – the bar at 1 Hotel Mayfair – and Murder Inc on Hanway Street in Fitzrovia, have been been given two Pins, while eight more London boozers have been honoured with one Pin.
The new one Pin bars are: Eve Bar in Covent Garden, Florattica Rooftop in Aldgate, Scales in Mayfair, Soma in Canary Wharf and Soma in Soho, as well as The Cocktail Trading Company in Shoreditch, The Pisco Bar at Coya Mayfair and The Royal Cocktail Exchange in Fitzrovia.
They join one-Pin bars Equal Parts in Hackney – which you can also find out Time Out’s own Best Bars in London list – as well as The Bar Below, which is part of Hide restaurant in Piccadilly, and The K Bar in South Kensington’s The Kensington hotel, which is one of our Best Bars in Kensington. Kioku Sake Bar at The OWO on Whitehall was also given two Pins earlier this year.
The three-PIN category is still solely represented by Lyaness, a multi-award winning bar in London’s Sea Containers Hotel owned by mixologist Ryan Chetiyawardana and known for its clever use of ingredients.
There are now 146 pinned bars across 14 countries, with the UK leading the market, with 45 pinned bars in total.
All the London bars in the Pinnacle Guide
Three Pins
- Lyaness
Two Pins
- Dover Yard
- Kioku Sake Bar
- Murder Inc
- Nipperkin
- The Spy Bar at Raffles
One Pin
- Artesian
- Bacchanalia
- Bar Kinky
- Equal Parts
- Eve Bar
- Florattica Rooftop
- Kol Mezcaleria
- Kwant Mayfair
- Nightjar Shoreditch
- Scales
- Sexy Fish
- Side Hustle
- Soma Canary Wharf
- Soma Soho
- Swift Soho
- The Bar Below
- The Cocktail Trading Company
- The Guards Bar & Lounge at Raffles
- The K Bar
- The Royal Cocktail Exchange
- Velvet By Salvatore Calabrese
- Vesper Bar at The Dorchester
- Viajante87
The 50 best bars in London, according to Time Out.
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