Nordic

This Scandinavian basement bar offers something different from both the minimal gastropubs and brewery-tied boozers that dominate Fitzrovia. Stripped wooden floors, with solid wooden benches and tables create a down-home ambience in which to sip bespoke cocktails like the Scandapolitan (muddled raspberries and passion fruit, vanilla and raspberry vodkas, Cointreau, passion fruit syrup and lingonberry juice) or more regular beers and wines. Bar food is along traditional smorgasbord lines (gravad lax, Danish pickled herring) and Nordic holds weekly parties, alongside annual celebrations for Danish, Swedish and Icelandic Days.