Bars
Wine lists, bars, coffee and the people who pour with a point of view.
Schofield's Bar London opens in Covent Garden
The Manchester cocktail bar that topped the UK's Top 50 list in 2024 takes its menu south to the former Chick 'n' Sours site near Seven Dials.
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Amber Taverns opens its first Newcastle city-centre pub
The wet-led chain is putting £3m into The Gander, a sport-and-karaoke conversion in Newcastle's Haymarket, timed to open before the festive season.
Shepherd Neame self-funds £15m Kent brewery rebuild
Britain's oldest brewer is shrinking its brewing capacity while modernising its Kent site, just as its contract to brew Singha Lager comes to an end.
June Baby brings Filipino cocktails to New York's East Village
Roxanne Diaz Bangalan, Darwin Pornel and Ben Rojo turn a former East Village bar into a Filipino-American cocktail room built on ube, calamansi and turon.
Venus Bar opens under Brasserie Olivia in Chelsea
La Nouvelle Garde's first bar outside France seats 22 in a basement built around 1970s Parisian nightlife, with cocktails from Jennifer Le Nechet.
NQ JPN opens in Soho, built on cabinets flown in from Japan
NQ64's new Berwick Street bar skips the usual retro mix for machines imported straight from Japanese arcades, backed by a sold-out testing night before it opened.
Aldi wine bar opens in Antwerp with glasses from €1
Al Divino, a pop-up in the Zuid district, prices every glass at the shop price of the bottle divided by six. It closes on 1 November; the bottles stay on the shelves.
Berryman's: Three Sheets duo opens a martini bar in Dalston
Max and Noel Venning go back to Kingsland Road with a 20-capacity, standing-only bar for martinis, wine and Cornish oysters, two doors from the original Three Sheets.
Schmuck lands at No. 11 on the World's 50 Best Bars 2026
The East Village bar also won the Best New Opening award, the highest finish for any New York venue on this year's list.
Opera Bar Sydney reopens on 6 November under Applejack
A deep green redesign by Luchetti Krelle, an all-electric kitchen and a four-section menu built on suburban Sydney producers replace the harbour bar's blue nautical look.
Panda & Sons wins the world's best cocktail menu award
The Edinburgh speakeasy's Transcend menu beat the field at The World's 50 Best Bars 2026 in Milan, as three other UK bars broke into the main list.
Marsha's sports bar in Philadelphia closes after a year
The South Street bar, the city's first built around women's sports, opened in September 2025. Its last shift is on Sunday, and the owners gave no reason in their announcement.
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