Top tipples: Side Hustle at the NoMad London
(Picture: Simon Upton)London is home to the best hotel bars in the world. Sure, there’s some strong competition out there — New York City needs no introduction, and Tokyo, Singapore and Hong Kong all have booming cocktail scenes — but nothing quite matches the heritage and historical significance of hotels in the British capital.
And it’s not just those long-standing icons that make the city so special. London also boasts a new crop of contemporary hotel bars that add a thrilling freshness to the scene, going beyond the classics. They craft innovative serves, often using advanced techniques — centrifugal clarification, vacuum distillation, fermentation, acidification and beyond — but you don’t need to know exactly what any of those things mean when the end result is so magical.
