El Socavon Restaurant Cocktail bar

You're walking down Old Kent Road and suddenly you're somewhere else entirely. El Socavon pulls you into that intoxicating Latin American energy where the kitchen actually knows what it's doing. The cocktails aren't an afterthought either—they're made with the same rigour as the food, which tells you everything about how seriously they take their craft. It's the kind of place where locals are already three deep at the bar on a Tuesday, where the ceviche tastes like the person making it spent years perfecting it (they probably did), and where you'll definitely want to come back with mates.