London
Hotel cocktail rooms, refined pubs and small-plate wine bars between Marylebone High Street and Wigmore Street. Nearest tube: Bond Street, Baker Street, Marylebone.
The pattern: book Artesian or The Wigmore at The Langham, walk three minutes to Purl for the second drink, finish on Marylebone Lane at one of the pubs. Less velvet rope than Mayfair, similar drink quality.
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Inside The Langham on Portland Place. Four-time World's Best Bar winner under previous head bartender Alex Kratena, and still a top-ten regular. The current menu reinvents classics through a single rare-ingredient lens. The Infatuation has called the room 'the most operatic ten metres in London drinking'.