Blind Spot London

You'll find Blind Spot sitting quietly on St Martin's Lane, in that sweet spot between Covent Garden's chaos and Leicester Square's tourist throng. Walk in and you're met with moody lighting, dark wood, and the kind of bar that makes you want to sit down and stay for three drinks instead of two. The cocktail menu reads like someone's actually thought about balance and flavour rather than just piling in whatever's expensive. Expect to pay a bit—we're talking £13-18 per drink—but the bartenders here justify it. They're proper skilled, not just shaking for show. It's the sort of place where locals actually book in for an evening, not somewhere you stumble into because you got lost looking for somewhere else.