London officially has the UK’s best rooftop bar

Londoners bloody love a rooftop bar. What better way to live out your ‘Sex and the City’ fantasies than by sipping a Cosmo on top of an office block as you watch the sun go down over our glorious, jagged skyline. Talk about a main character moment. 

And the good news is, a new list says that London has got the best rooftop bar in all of the UK. (Are we surprised?) 

Using data from social media and contributions from their editorial team, Big 7 Travel has put together a list of Europe’s best rooftop bars. Out of the 50, five of London’s finest sky-high venues made the cut, and only one from another English city (Leeds) was included. Although we got beaten by the Danes with the Salling Rooftop bar in Aarhus taking first place, London put in a pretty good shift.

Coming in fifth was the Culpeper Roof Garden on Commercial Street, a leafy bar with cute vegetable plots and an up-close view of the Gherkin. Also on the list were The Rooftop at One Hundred Shoreditch, swanky Peckham vino joint Forza Wine, Frank’s Cafe of pink staircase Insta fame, and jaunty Napoleon-themed Bar Elba. The final English bar on the list was The Green Room in Leeds, in forty-ninth place. 

If you’d asked us, London dominating this list was as inevitable as queuing for Frank’s. Have you considered doing a bar crawl of all five of London’s best skyward venues?

Best rooftop bars in Europe for 2022:

1. Salling Rooftop and the Roofgarden – Aarhus, Denmark
2. The Roof at the Reykjavik Edition – Reykjavik, Iceland
3. Kranen Bar at the Munch Rooftop Bar – Oslo
4. Oroya – Madrid, Spain
5. The Culpeper – London, England
6. Sky Bar Lisbon – Lisbon, Portugal
7. Patchwork at Sa Punta – Ibiza, Spain
8. Skyline Bar 20up – Hamburg, Germany
9. Mama Shelter – Bordeaux, France
10. Terrace bar – Madeira
11. Herbārijs – Riga, Latvia
12. Lumi Bar and Restaurant – Lisbon, Portugal
13. REM Eiland – Amsterdam, Netherlands
14. Villa M Rooftop – Paris, France
15. Lemon Tree Sky Bar – Bratislava, Slovakia
16. Más Rooftop Bar – Helsinki, Finland
17. Cold Town House – Edinburgh, UK
18. Nebotičnik – Ljubljana, Slovenia
19. Restaurant Silo – Copenhagen, Denmark
20. Safestay – Athens, Greece
21. Tope – Barcelona, Spain
22. Balcony Bar Prague – Prague, Czech Republic
23. The Rooftop at One Hundred Shoreditch – London, UK
24. Floor17 – Amsterdam, Netherlands
25. Hugo’s Terrace – St Julian’s, Malta
26. Klunkerkranich Rooftop – Berlin, German
27. Terrazza Borromini – Rome, Italy
28. Forza Wine – London, UK
29. Babel – Belfast, North Ireland
30. Level 27 – Warsaw, Poland
31. Terraza Hotel Doña María – Seville, Spain
32. Das Loft Bar & Lounge – Vienna, Austria
33. Stockholm Under Stjärnorna – Stockholm, Sweden
34. Buža Bar – Dubrovnik, Croatia
35. Frank’s Café at Bold Tendencies – London, UK
36. Liebling – Hidden Rooftop Bar – Budapest, Hungary
37. Sense Rooftop Bar – Sofia, Bulgaria
38. Bar Elba – London, UK
39. Cafe im Vorhoelzer Forum – Munich, Germany
40. Schweizerhof Films – Flims, Switzerland
41. Play Label Rooftop – Brussels, Belgium
42. Sophie’s – Dublin, Ireland
43. Aria Hotel Budapest – Budapest, Hungary
44. Illum Rooftop – Copenhagen, Denmark
45. The Skyline Rooftop Bar – Venice, Italy
46. Aloha Bar – Rotterdam, Netherlands
47. Skybar – Vilnius, Lithuania
48. Mikla – Istanbul, Turkey
49. The Green Room – Leeds, UK
50. Lift Steak and Rooftop Bar – Tirana, Albania

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