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5 Pop-Up Cocktail Bars to Have on Your Radar

Looking for somewhere cool to have cocktails? Over the next few weeks, a number of world-famous mixology teams are coming to the capital for a limited time only. From two acclaimed Barcelona bars to a surreal time machine experience, here are the pop-up cocktail bars to have on your radar this month…

By Abbie Schofield

Unique Pop-Up Bars to Visit This Month

Paradiso at 100 Wardour St

From 3-6 March, London will play host to Paradiso, voted number 20 in the World’s Best 50 Bars. When at home, the Barcelona speakeasy is located behind a fridge door in The Pastrami Bar, but in London will be located at 100 Wardour St. The specially-curated pop-up cocktail menu is unique in look as well as flavour, with drinks like the neon coloured gimlet ‘Kriptonita’ and the illusionist ‘Champagne Negroni’ with kaffir lime. We’ve also got our eye on ‘Aire de Jalisco’, a margarita-style cocktail with spiced umami notes.

3-6 March, 100wardourst.com

The Clumsies at St James Bar

Athens bar The Clumsies (ranked number six in World’s 50 Best Bars) will be at the Sofitel St James hotel’s bar on 3-4 March. From 5pm onwards, The Clumsies’ pop-up cocktail bar will be serving five specially designed cocktails, including ‘Tea Ceremony’ with whisky, shitake, mango, ginger and honey, ‘Synthesis’ with gin, cocoa and white beetroot vermouth.

3-4 March, sofitelstjames.com

Cocktail Time Machine at Timeless Bar

Funicular Productions have set up at east London’s Timeless Bar to take guests back in time and space to enjoy some of the world’s greatest cocktails at the moment of their inception. The 75-minute experience transports visitors through three decades and countries via three different, delicious, era-defining cocktails. Once the time machine returns guests back to the present, they can celebrate it ‘always being happy hour somewhere’ with two for one cocktails from open until close daily. Happily, there’s a bit more time to experience this pop-up, as it’s on until the end of July.

cocktail-timemachine.com

Dr Stravinksy at The Den

Another exciting pop up at 100 Wardour St is Dr Stravinsky, voted number 25 in the World’s Best 50 Bars. For just three days, the bar will be at the Soho restaurant’s intimate drawing room serving its memorable concoctions. Taking inspiration from a 19th century laboratory, Dr Stravinsky mixes homemade alcohols with local produce for a truly unique recipe, and cocktails on the pop-up menu include a ‘Soil Martini’ and a ‘Truffle Rosita’.