The drink is thirty-five percent of the score here, more than any other room gets for any other thing, and it sorts London faster than any other question. 69 Colebrooke Row takes the top on a Pour of 9.1 in a room with no platform rating at all — the number beside it is ours and nobody else's. Three Sheets is second, where a dirty martini arrives with three Maldon oysters you didn't order. Third is a French wine bar that opened in 1972 and shakes nothing, because it out-scores most of the rooms below it and pretending otherwise would be dishonest.
Hotel bars are ranked on their own list — London has eleven worth the walk and they are a different format, not a subset of this one. Pubs likewise. Tayēr + Elementary sits fifth and is closed after a fire; it stays on the list because the room is what we scored, and the entry tells you it's shut. Most of the numbers on this page are editorial only: Yelp barely operates in London, and where fewer than two platforms clear our review floor we show our own figure rather than a blend we can't stand behind.
Also in London: The 11 Hotel Bars in London and The 20 Best Pubs in London.
