![]() ![]() They even boast oysters if you fancy going all out. Paired with cocktails is a tasty bar menu (featuring Hawksmoor classics, FYI) that’s served late until the evening. ![]() The Art Deco dining area overlooks Regent Street, so it’s perfect for a post-shop treat – as if you need an excuse. Hawksmoor might be famous for having a deliciously meaty menu, but their cocktails are equally brilliant. Head bartender Allesandro Palazzi really knows his stuff – shaking up impeccably good drinks that Mayfair can’t get enough of. Though DUKES is famed for its martinis, the cocktail list extends far beyond that. Legend has it that Ian Fleming actually coined the famous James Bond catchphrase ‘shaken, not stirred’ in DUKES, and the rest is history (read, Londoners slowly getting smashed on the best cocktails in town). Is it OTT to call a cocktail life-changing? Maybe, but you should at least drink the martini at DUKES Bar before getting too judgy on that front. Plush hotels with swanky cocktail lounges, late-night party haunts, upmarket wine bars – there’s no shortage of cool drinking spots in Mayfair, you just need to know where to find them. When it comes to finding the best bars in Mayfair, you should know that there is serious competition. The body is one place the mind another.Looking for the best bars in Mayfair? Let us introduce you to the very best places to booze in this gorgeous corner of the capital. This can’t help but denature the experience. In a traditional sports bars, screens are like tractor-beams for irises and attention. Or, perhaps if not exactly on the sidelines, at least passing the ball. What was most apparent, however, was how the sports seemed, well, to be on the sidelines of the experience. Fans, if they were fans, sat along the sides of the bar, drinking cocktails like the Tegroni, a Negroni variant made with tequila, and a chartreuse-riven Old Fashioned. Tobias Harris, the 76ers brilliant forward, was weaving down the court but the real athlete was the bartender, a blur of bottle and shaker. But more than the screens, I noticed the bar, which occupies the back end of the space like a stage. But whether these places can succeed depends on an existential question: Can a sports bar ever be classy?Īs the toothsome Charon ferried me past the golden door, I clocked no less than four television screens, handsomely inset into wood paneling. ![]() And on Monday, February 3, the great clean-up will begin for if one thing is for certain: regardless of who wins, a mess will be made.īut what if-what if instead of the sports bar being a testosterone-soaked jostly-jostly hotspot of shouting, one could enjoy the big game-and in fact, all games-whilst sipping a craft cocktail and nibbling on, I don’t know, harissa-rubbed chicken with grilled toast, pearl onions, and garlic confit? A new crop of elevated venues is making the case that fans can, (and deserve to) watch their games whilst swaddled in luxury. And it is fitting therefore that it be watched amidst general rabble-rousing. The Super Bowl is the NFL’s Battle Royale, an orgasmic confluence of men, pads, glory and pigskin. This Sunday, as the Kansas City Chiefs face off against the San Francisco Giants in Super Bowl LIV, the sports bars of America will be in utter unfettered party mode. ![]()
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