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Enjoy drinking in classy places? Then you’ll like the Pinnacle Guide, which is kind of like the Michelin Guide, but for bars instead of restaurants.
It only launched last year, but the cocktail crowd is already taking it very seriously. Pinnacle hands out one, two or three ‘Pins’ to bars that are either ‘excellent’, ‘outstanding’ or ‘exceptional’. A bunch of new one and two Pin bars have just been announced, including four in London.
The newly anointed one-Pin bars are 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.
Just one London bar was newly given two-Pins; Kioku Sake Bar at The OWO on Whitehall, another spot that you can find in Time Out’s our best bars in London list. This also means that The OWO building now contains three bars that feature in the Pinnacle Guide, with Kioku joining the two-Pin Spy Bar and the one-Pin Guard’s Bar. It’s now the most ‘Pinned’ venue in the world. Check out our full list of the best hotel bars in London if that’s your kind of scene.
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-clever use of ingredients.
All the London bars in the Pinnacle Guide
Three Pins
- Lyaness
Two Pins
- Kioku Sake Bar
- Nipperkin
- The Spy Bar at Raffles
One Pin
- Artesian
- Bacchanalia
- Bar Kinky
- Equal Parts
- Kol Mezcaleria
- Kwant Mayfair
- Nightjar Shoreditch
- Sexy Fish
- Side Hustle
- Swift Soho
- The Bar Below
- The Guards Bar & Lounge at Raffles
- The K Bar
- Velvet By Salvatore Calabrese
- Vesper Bar at The Dorchester
- Viajante87
The best bars in London, according to Time Out.
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