The Essential London Cocktail Bars

"Max and Noel Venning have expanded operations, most notably in partnership with wine bar and shop Top Cuvée, but their debut bar remains the essential visit. A weekly changing menu lists nine cocktails, split into threes. Three sheets, specifically. The flagship order is the “French 75,” packing verjus for acidity and moscato for sweetness into a carbonated, batched iteration of the classic cocktail, served tableside from a champagne bottle. Here, it’s more a case of iterating classics than redrawing blueprints, but that doesn’t make the serves any less compelling." - Emma Hughes, Anna Sulan Masing, Richard Godwin