What's up guys, I'm Jamie Laing and welcome to Drinks Tube. Now for all of you who don't
know me, I'm on a UK TV Show and for all of you who do know me, you know how much I love
my home town of London and how much I love a good night out. So come with me and I'm
gonna show you the best date-night cocktail bars in London- come on!
Now first off and one of my favourites, so what a place to start. This bar is called Dandelyan and Dandelyan
recently won best new cocktail bar in the entire world. As you can see the views are
amazing, you can see the London skyline, you can see the thames. The decor is brand new,
but mostly importantly the cocktails are amazing. Now the concept here is botany and plants
and how to use them in a modern way to make fantastic cocktails. If you come to Dandelyan
you have to have the appropiately named Southbank Cocktail. Now in it is white rum, grapefruit
and honey bitters, pink salt soda and lemon verbena I mean it tastes unbelieveable, you can taste
the lemon, the grapefruit and it's fresh. What a perfect cocktail to have a romantic
stroll along its name sake and its Southbank on the River Thames. By the way, this place
is run by Ryan, aka Mr Lyan, and he is just won International Bartender of the Year award.
Now if you want to see Jamie Oliver at the sister bar, White Lyan, just click the link here.
If you take a walk down the Thames, you have to check out the Savoy Hotel
and the amazing Beaufort Bar. This place screams theatricality with its art deco design
and its amazing cocktails that push the boundaries. The Savoy opened in 1889 and this room is
actually where the likes of Frank Sinatra, Caroll Gibbons and loads of musical legends performed.
Now there are amazing cocktails here, some of them names after the famous faces that
visited, some of them are served in their vintage glass collection and some are just straight
up impressive in their own right. Now you have to come and check out the Impressionist,
served with a smokey rose. It's a champagne cocktail with vodka, violet liquer, cherry
and raspberry and if you're date doesn't like that you can pick a wonderful cocktail out
of a pop-up book. If they still don't like it, get another date.
I mean it's bubbly, fruity, it's like romance in a glass
I love romance, delicious.
If you're here, also check out the American Bar, and to check out more about it, just click here.
Now my next bar is a little bit of a hidden gem, so if you're around Smithfield Meat Market, keep your eyes open because you might actually miss it.
Now Oriole is the latest venture from the people behind Night Jar, and Night Jar has been voted one of the top three bars
in the world for the last few years. Now this new place is all about relaxed atmosphere,
exotic drinks and they even have live music in the evenings. Don't worry, because you
can still chat to your date. Now when you come here, trust me you have to try the cocktail
Jewel in the Crown and it comes in this blue elephant. Now in it is gin, Kumquat liqueur-
I think I got that right- and passiflora tea. Far fun ingredients for their wonder in wonder theme
I mean this is just one of their amazing sharing cocktails you can try and as the menu says the
most important thing about travel is finding the perfect companion. So go out there, find
your perfect date and then bring them here.
It doesn't matter what kind of time of day or night your date is, the Duck and Waffle is open 24 hours a day.
The cocktails are amazing, but also it's a restaurant and on top of that look at the views we get to see. You can bring
your date here and watch the sun set or sun rise. And order one of the great cocktails 24 hours a day. How romantic is that?!
The exciting thing is the cocktail menu always changes, however if you come in here and want to order this
drink, trust me it is unbelievable. It is the Original Old Fashioned, they have a little
pun on the name Original, because it is actually distilled with Werther's Original. Now if you've never
had a Werthers Original it's like a butter-scotch, it's kinda like a toffee sweet and it tastes,
I mean it tastes like a Werther's Original. It's a whiskey cocktail, with toffee, salted-caramel
and Werther's Original in it. I feel like I've gone into Willy Wonka's factory and ordered
a drink. So Rich Woods who creates all the cocktails here, likes to use clever ingredients,
like the Werther's Original, he's even created a Nutella Negroni. So if you want to impress
your date, come to check out the view and try the drinks because they are delicious.
There we have it guys, some of my favourite cocktail bars in the whole of London. Please
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