Margate Arts Club

You'll find yourself on Cliftonville's quieter stretch of Northdown Road at this genuinely unpretentious spot run by actual artists who know what they're doing behind the bar. It's the kind of place where the crowd feels intentional—regulars chatting with first-timers, people sketching in corners, someone always talking about what's on at Turner Contemporary round the way. The drinks are taken seriously but without any of that insufferable craft-cocktail gatekeeping; they just make them properly and let the quality speak for itself.