The Umbrella Workshop (The Umbrella Project)

You're walking into Cleeve Workshops on Boundary Street in Shoreditch, and this isn't your typical off-licence. The Umbrella Project has built a reputation for curating an exceptionally thoughtful selection of spirits—the kind of place where the staff can tell you the exact fermentation process behind a bottle of natural wine or point you towards a Japanese whisky that'll genuinely change your mind about the category. It's run by people who come from the bar world, so they get what makes a drink worth drinking. You'll find everything from proper rum to obscure liqueurs, always with the sense that someone's actually tasted and believed in every bottle on the shelf.