The 15 Best Cocktail Bars In London

"By day, this spot on Hackney’s Mare Street serves great coffee to people who are in codependent relationships with MacBooks, but come evening, the mood at Diddy’s is strictly fun. The cocktail menu is long but delightfully riddle-free and helpfully divided into sections—‘spritz’, ‘negroni’, ‘margarita’, ‘the rest’—that you’ll still understand after your second boulevardier. On winter nights it’s like a house party, on summer nights it’s like a block party, but whenever you visit, check out the basement-level pink room which is covered in sateen and filled with giggling friends." - heidi lauth beasley, jake missing, daisy meager