London
North London music venues, lock-side pubs and basement cocktail rooms. Nearest tube: Camden Town, Chalk Farm, Mornington Crescent.
The pattern: pre-gig pints at one of the canal-side pubs, late cocktails at Knowhere Special or the basement of BrewDog. Stay between Camden Town and Chalk Farm tubes and you can walk the whole night.
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Subterranean room beneath a Camden side street. The drinks team trained under Mr Lyan, and the list rotates monthly around a single ingredient. Class Magazine ranked it a UK top-twenty in 2025. Walk-in is realistic only on weeknights before 9pm.