1. 5th View
Best for: ☕️🍸🍰🧁🍽📚
Nearest tube: Piccadilly Circus – 3 mins🚶♀️🚶🏻♂️
Location: 5th Floor of Waterstones bookshop Piccadilly Circus
Why is it so awesome: A must for rooftop & book lovers – you can bring books up to the cafe to browse before you buy.
Vibe: Ladies what lunch, catch ups and work coffees
Prosecco price: 🍾
Food: Yes
Last visited /photos taken: 2019
Review roundup: Perfect little haven for book worms who love a view or just those that love cakes and gin – seemed to be a speciality in both!
Address: Waterstones, 203 – 205 Piccadilly, St James, W1J 9HD
Website: Click here
2. Dalloway Terrace
Best for: 🍽🥂🍷
Nearest Tube Tottenham Court Road – 2 mins🚶♀️🚶🏻♂️
Why is it so awesome: The options for either a glam indoor cocktail bar, the beautiful terrace or the cute pretty comfy bar downstairs.
Vibe: Classy
Prosecco price:🍾🍾🍾
Food: Yes
Last visited /photos taken: 2018
Review roundup: Gorgeous little hideaway from the bustle of TCR. Great for after work dinner catch ups or pre theatre drinks. You can book the terrace too which in the summer is great. It’s seasonal too so open all year round with heaters.
Address: Bloomsbury Hotel, 16 – 22 Great Russell St, Fitzrovia, WC1B 3NN
Website:Click here
3. Disrepute
Best for: 🍸🍹
Nearest tube: Oxford Circus – 5 mins or Piccadilly Circus – 6 min🚶♀️🚶🏻♂️
Why is it so awesome: Date night cocktails with a tale!
Vibe: 💑 💏
Prosecco price: 🍾🍾🍾
Food: 🙅♀️
Last visited /photos taken: 2018
Review roundup: Super cute classy underground bar where the Profumo affair allegedly began! Cocktails all have a story… so choose wisely! 😉 It’s a member bar but non members welcome – make sure you book.
Address: 4 Kingly Court, Soho, W1F 9RR
Website: Click here
4. Elan cafe
Best for: ☕️ 🧁 🍰
Nearest tube: Knightsbridge – 5 mins🚶♀️🚶🏻♂️
Why is it so awesome: So pretty and pink!
Vibe: Girly!
Prosecco price: 🙅♀️ 🚫
Food: Cakes and snacks
Last visited /photos taken: 2018
Review roundup: Gorgeous cafe for a girly get together tho be warned it’s popular so at peak times expect to queue. There are quite a few round London… this one was right by the V&A – Very much doing it for the gram type place to find out about them all: Click here.
Address: 239 Brompton Road, SW3 2EP
Website: Click here
7. Holborn dining room
Best for: 🍽🥂☕️
Nearest tube: Holborn – 2 min 🚶♀️
Why is it so awesome: Oasis of calm from bustling central London
Vibe: Quiet, dining, grown up
Prosecco price: 🍾🍾🍾
Food: Yes
Last visited /photos taken: 2019
Review roundup: Cute little stand alone garden which, by summer is a floral delight and by winter is dining in a star light cosy cave. (Inside is a brassiere style bar which is a good work meeting spot and has over 500 gin available if you needed another reason!)
Address: 252 High Holborn, WC1V 7EN
Website: Click here
6. Hush
Best for: 🥂🍽🍸☕️
Nearest tube: Bond St – 3 mins🚶🏻♂️ or Oxford St – 6 mins🚶♀️
Why is it so awesome: A hidden treasure… pretty in the summer, film nights in the winter!
Vibe: Classy
Prosecco price: 🍾🍾🍾 (sparkling wine and champers only!)
Food: Yes
Last visited /photos taken: 2018
Review roundup: In amongst the bustle of London this is a little oasis of calm and beautifully decorated both for summer or winter. Perfect for a shopping champers pit stop or a whole evening!
Address: 8 Lancashire Ct, Mayfair, W1S 1EY
Website: Click here
7. Min Jiang
Best for: 🍽🍷🍜🥟
Nearest tube: High Street Kensington – 6 mins🚶♀️🚶🏻♂️
Why is it so awesome: Stunning views of Hyde Park
Vibe: White linen table cloths in the resturant, more relaxed in the bar.
Prosecco price: 🍾🍾🍾
Food: Yes – Chinese
Last visited /photos taken: 2019
Review roundup: Refined and quiet with great food – perfect for work chats or a feast of food!
Address: 8th floor of the Royal Garden Hotel, 2 – 4 Kensington High Street, W8 4PT
Website: Click here
8. Portrait Restaurant & Bar
Best for: 🍽
Nearest tube: Charing Cross – 4 mins or Leicester Sq – 3 mins
Why’s it so awesome: Views of the eye, Nelson column, great food and culture moments away.
Dress code: Anything as often full of gallery goers as well as it’s own destination 👖👗
Vibe: Bustley, grown up!
Prosecco price: 🍾🍾
Food: Yes – it’s more a resturant than bar
Last visited / Photos taken: 2018
Review roundup: Beautiful views and perfect for a pit stop if spending time at the exhibitions or even as a destination – and ideal on a rainy day!
Address:Top on the National Portrait Gallery, Trafalgar Square. Charing Cross, WC2N 5DN
Website: Click here
9. Sexy Fish
Best for: 🍣🍷🥂
Nearest tube: Green Park – 4 mins 🚶♀️or Bond Street – 9 mins 🚶🏻♂️
Why is it so awesome: FUN
Vibe: Swanky, fun, cocktails
Prosecco price: 🍾🍾🍾
Food: Yes! Sushi!
Last visited /photos taken: 2019
Review roundup: A fav spot in Mayfair for the ‘to be seen at’ scene but is also a lovely resturant and great fun vibe and bar for after work cocktails.
Address: Berkeley Square House, Mayfair, W1J 6BR
Website: Click here
10. Windows on the world
Best for: 🍷🍸🍹
Nearest tube: Green Park – 8 mins🚶🏻♂️ or Hyde Park- 6 mins🚶♀️
Why is it so awesome: The views 😍
Vibe: Classy, chilled & elegant
Prosecco price: 🍾🍾🍾
Food: There is a resturant attached
Last visited /photos taken: 2018
Review roundup: Amazing views, gorgeous setting, perfect for a special drink or book the restaurant.
Address: Hilton Hotel, 22 Park Lane, W1K 1BE
Website: Click here
11. Vivi
Best for: 🍽🍸
Nearest tube: Tottenham Court Road – 1 min
Why is it so awesome: A new resturant super central with retro dishes such as the classics prawn cocktail starter, chicken kiev main or the sherry trifle desert!
Vibe: 60s inspired with a hint & twist of the famous Sketch resturant.
Prosecco price: 🍾🍾
Food: Yes – And huge choice
Last visited /photos taken: 2019
Review roundup: A much needed addiction to this area. It’s quirky in all the good ways – with 4 areas including a fabulous bar!
Address: ViVi, Centre Point, 11 Saint Giles Sq, WC2H 8AP
Website: Click here
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