Scarfes Bar
Cocktail bar · Holborn
Rosewood London, 252 High Holborn, London WC1V 7EN, United Kingdom
Highlights
Clubby digs with whiskies, cocktails, live jazz & caricatures
Clubby digs with whiskies, cocktails, live jazz & caricatures
"We have a T-rex-sized bone to pick with Scarfes Bar—why did you have to go and ruin all other London bars for us? There’s some flirty fairy dust in the air at Rosewood London’s bar that’s even more intoxicating than their obscenely sexy sour umeshu take on a Boulevardier. The walls are adorned with cheeky artworks by legendary satirical cartoonist Gerard Scarfe, there’s a roaring fireplace, and the suited servers sing along with the live band without ever teetering into cringe. If there’s a queue out front of the Holborn spot, join it. Any wait is worth it." - heidi lauth beasley
"There’s hype and then there’s the kind of aching charm that even millionaires will queue for on Saturday night. Scarfes Bar in Holborn’s Rosewood London hotel is the latter. A bar like this comes along once in a champagne-spritzed lifetime. The walls are adorned with huge, cheeky artworks by legendary satirical cartoonist Gerald Scarfe, there’s a roaring fireplace flanked by velvet sofas, and the classics-remixed cocktails are fantastic. Especially the Plummet Boulevard, a take on the Boulevardier that sings with sweet but sexy sour umeshu. We like the high-back, swivel bar seats best where you can flirt outrageously, hypothesise over whether that person you just saw is ‘that guy from that film’, and witness the servers join in with the live music like one big suited and booted collective. video credit: Heidi Lauth Beasley photo credit: Heidi Lauth Beasley" - Heidi Lauth Beasley
"Scarfes Bar, which opened in 2013 as the anchor cocktail bar for the then newly opened Rosewood Hotel, replicates the design of turn-of-the-century gentlemen’s clubs, with velvet banquette seating and a central fireplace surrounded by grand bookshelves. The old school vibes are paired with a future-facing menu that offers unexpected combinations, like pandan with Macallan 12-year in the Crescent City cocktail, and blanco tequila with roasted pineapple and white chocolate in the Happy Mistake." - Sean Flynn
"With cozy velvet banquette seating and a fireplace that you can count on to be lit at all hours of the night, Scarfes Bar within Rosewood’s stunning Covent Garden property is an absolute must-stop on a night out to remember in London. An impressive collection of antique books line the space, which also features doodles from British caricaturist Gerald Scarfes, the bar’s namesake." - Oset Babür-Winter
"Your mate recommended you for some sort of exclusive dating app and you appear to have matched with what (appears) to be royalty. Well tally-ho and bottoms up, it’s time for a snifter at Scarfes Bar in The Rosewood Hotel. The cocktails are strong in alcohol content and price, and the atmosphere suits anyone whether they’re 400th in line to the throne, or not." - heidi lauth beasley, jake missing
