Bar Guides & Reviews
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Review: Rum Ex Machina, Manchester
Reviewer for the north, Dave Marsland stops by a bar of one of the biggest venues to launch this year - Diecast.
—13 November, 2023
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Review: Nord, Liverpool
Our Northern reviewer Dave Marsland drops by Nord in Liverpool for his latest review.
—03 November, 2023
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Review: Red Light, Manchester
CLASS reviewer for the North, Dave Marsland, stops by Red Light in Manchester.
—31 October, 2023
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Review: Lucky 7, Birmingham
Ellen Manning passes by Rob Wood and Kyndra Vorster’s latest Birmingham creation.
—17 October, 2023
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Review: Nipperkin, London
Tyler Zielinksi reviews one of the big new launches of the year - Nipperkin at 20 Berkeley.
—12 October, 2023
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Review: Creating your own cocktails at Fortnum's 3'6
Fortnum & Mason's 3'6 has relaunched, promising guests they can create their own cocktails. Hamish Smith takes the golden lifts to the department store's third floor to check it out.
—04 July, 2023
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Review: Mama Funki and the rise of the neighbourhood bar
Are neighbourhood bars now as good as their inner city contemporaries? Hamish Smith hasn't got far to go to find out.
—11 October, 2023
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A bartenders' guide to Sheffield
Sheffield has a small but emerging cocktail scene. Jack Wakelin of Bench is your guide.
—11 September, 2023
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Review: Bohemian Arts Club, Stockport
Class' reviewer for the North, Dave Marsland, has been in Stockport for the opening of Bohemian Arts Club.
—02 August, 2023
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Review: Bartenders Lounge, Aberdeen
Class' Scotland reviewer Blythe Robertson heads to one of the UK's hotbeds of talent - Aberdeen.
—27 July, 2023
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Review: Malo, Glasgow
CLASS' Scotland-based reviewer Blythe Robertson heads to Glasgow to try out one of its latest launches.
—17 July, 2023
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Review: Medicine Nights, Birmingham
Class' Midlands reviewer Ellen Manning stops by Medicine's latest location.
—10 July, 2023
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Review: Crossroads
Crossroads was among the few good things to emerge from the pandemic, a compact, subterranean cocktail bar in a former Victorian toilet in Camden. Its new-ish home on Newington Green is comparatively palatial, but with all the charm and pioneering spirit of the original – a quintessential neighbourhood bar with a sustainable, forward-thinking approach.
—01 June, 2023
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Review: Lunar, Glasgow
Glasgow’s food and drink scene continues its upward trend with the arrival of Lunar, a wine and cocktail bar on the south side of the city. From the team behind popular West End beer shop Grunting Growler, the focus is on fresh flavours from natural wines and seasonally-driven cocktails.
—31 May, 2023
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Review: Velvet at Corinthia London
Velvet was one of the big launches of the last six months. Hamish Smith dropped by this spring to review Corinthia London's latest bar.
—23 May, 2023
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Review: The Commons Club, Edinburgh
CLASS' Scotland reviewer Blythe Robertson pops by The Commons Club
—22 May, 2023
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Review: The Canteen, Liverpool
The Class review team lands in Liverpool for the launch of Canteen.
—16 May, 2023
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Review: Project Halcyon, Manchester
The Class review team is in Manchester to pay Project Halcyon a visit.
—15 May, 2023
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A bartenders' guide to Edinburgh
Sian Buchan takes a tour around the bar jewels in the Scottish capital’s crown.
—10 May, 2023
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"The Dorchester has awoken" writes Hamish Smith in his review of the hotel's new Vesper Bar
Hamish Smith heads to The Dorchester and the grande dame hotel's new semi-themed Vesper Bar.
—17 March, 2023
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A bartender's guide to Nottingham
Liam O'Brien of Brass Monkey is your tour guide to Nottingham.
—07 February, 2023
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International spotlight: Class explores Line in Athens
On a quest for inspiration, Hamish Smith visits Line in Athens, where he catches up with co-owner Vasilis Kyritsis who talks us through his pathbreaking new bar.
—02 February, 2023
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Bar review: Lost Property Office at Brewdog Waterloo
A speakeasy in the UK's largest pub? Hamish Smith stops by one of this year's big launches, Brewdog and Rich Woods' Lost Property Office.
—20 October, 2022
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Hamish Smith on Sweeties: 'Two hits and four misses – and misses ballooned over the crossbar.'
Hamish Smith visits one of the big London launches of 2022, Sweeties at The Standard hotel, to see if the 1970s can ever be grounds for (good) cocktail inspiration.
—03 January, 2023
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The bartender's guide to Birmingham
The UK’s second-largest city has much to offer in terms of cultural history – and it’s hard to beat for fine dining too. But it’s the drinks that Samuel Boulton is on the trail of.
—14 November, 2022
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The bartenders’ guide to Bournemouth
Gemma Terry of Ojo Rojo takes us on a local’s tour of south coast town Bournemouth.
—21 July, 2022
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Review: Booking Office 1869
What happens when a railway bar becomes the destination? Hamish Smith reviews Booking Office 1869 at St Pancras Renaissance Hotel.
—15 June, 2022
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The bartender's staycation: Your guide to Newcastle
Neil Donachie of Mother Mercy offers up his top picks of the finest from the growing crop of bars and restaurants that the ‘Toon’ has to offer.
—29 April, 2022
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Bar review: Silverleaf at Pan Pacific
Silverleaf has probably been the most talked about London launch of 2022. Hamish Smith makes the Pan Pacific bar his latest in-depth review.
—21 March, 2022
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The bartender's staycation: Ben Alcock's guide to Bristol bars
Ben Alcock, of HMSS and Filthy XIII, steers us through the drinking highlights of the gateway to the south west.
—06 January, 2022