No other city has this. Eleven hotel bars, most of them inside a twenty-minute walk of each other, and the weakest of them would anchor the bar scene of a smaller capital. They score a higher Room average than London's modern cocktail rooms because a palace bar is buying you the evening as much as the drink, and the good ones know it.
The American Bar at The Savoy is first and Dukes' frozen tableside pour second; the Connaught's martini trolley is joint fourth. Artesian is tenth: a four-time World's Best that now serves a concept menu built around kale and crickets, and the entry says why that costs it. This is the whole group, not a cut of it — the density is the point. Ranked on our editorial score.
Also in London: The 20 Best Cocktail Bars in London and The 20 Best Pubs in London.
