The May Fair Bar

You're walking into the kind of bar where people actually dress up on a Tuesday night without it feeling forced. The May Fair Bar sits inside the hotel on Stratton Street—that quiet corner of Mayfair where the money is old enough to be invisible—and it's got the sort of polished, wood-panelled aesthetic that makes you want to order something with a proper name rather than pointing at the menu. The cocktails are taken seriously here; these aren't novelty drinks, they're crafted with the kind of precision you'd expect from someone who's been doing this for twenty years. It's the sort of place you take someone when you want to impress them without being obvious about it, or when you just fancy feeling a bit more sophisticated than usual.