You’dbe forgiven for imagining it as an ironic hipster haven, but the ethos behind Weino is to provide drinking that’s morefriendly on both your wallet and on the environment. Surrounded by Turkishgrill restaurantsand party-focussed nightspots is this bar where cocktails are king. There’s also regular live jazz and DJ sets played through a top-notch soundsystem – well, it is named after Thelonious Monk album.

Sign up to unlock our digital magazines and also receive the latest news, events, offers and partner promotions. The data collected including the number visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages visted in an anonymous form. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc. When themusic isn’t in full swing in the downstairs basement,take your time mulling over the listof classic and original cocktails. The venue offers the shelter of a covered bar and a roofed area in front of the decks, so you can dance whatever the weather.Operating as a relaxed, light and airy café during the day and a live music space and bar in the evenings, Oto puts a strong emphasis on the more out-there of underground artists.

Support Time Out directly today and help us champion the people and places which make the city tick. The seasonal menu lists seemingly simple drinks with just a few ingredients, but they're all pretty delicious. A scruffy,tiki dive bar that always brings the party, rock up to Ridley Road and discover good times in an unlikely beach shack setting. Sample glasses from a wall of bagnums and paira small plates menu featuringcheese from a deli counter also inside the venue.Rock up on a sunny evening for 10 tapsof fresh beer brewed on site as well asnatural wines, guest ciders and cocktails as well as a short bar snack-sized menu from theAcmechaps. Take a fewflights up to Dalston Roof Park, a bar that hosts some pretty impressive daytime parties and DJ sets. What started out as a bit of a sophisticated cocktail joint hasmorphed into the perfect late-night wateringhole. Another jazz-club-meets-bar to suit the chin-stroking crate-diggersthat have long frequented this part of town, Servant Jazz Quarters is situated just behind Dalston's cultural hub, Gillett Square.

This Dalston restaurant-bar has a strong Japanese theme running through it, serving dishes inspired by the country’s izakayas. Headto the mighty Kingsland Road and its surrounding backstreets and you’re be sure to stumble upon a great place to get into some (totally legal) trouble. The owners makesure everybody feels welcome, though, and will happily offer up suggestions to suit your palate to a tee. Open until 3am on Friday and Saturday nights, Dalston Jazz Bar is the lowkey party spot that you need have in your back pocket for those 'where shall we go now? Don't miss their fabulous fish either – there's a 'pay what you want' menu of oysters, tiger prawns, mussels and more, and you pay what you think it's worth to help cover the live music (and it's definitely not all jazz, btw).

Thisenticing roomis home to a wide range of experimental music that exists well outside the mainstream. Here you'll find chic cocktail spots, hip jazz bars, iconic queer venues, craft ale taprooms, trendy natural wine joints and banging DJ bars. Modelled on Andy Warhol’s Factory, come here for a sterile, minimal setting with silver walls and swathes of grey concrete. Three Sheets has fast become a hangout for those in the drinks bizwho flock here to sample standout, pre-batched cocktails and enjoy the low-key, stripped-back setting.

Mezcal is going to be massive this year’: London drink experts have been saying that for what feels like a decade. A cocktail bar, restaurant and taquería, on Friday and Saturday nights it morphs in Corrochio’s Cantina, serving all manner of Mexican and South American-inspired cocktails, as Mexican bar classics to eat. And in true Dalston style it's home to all sorts: popular with a large and diverse LGBT crowd, but welcoming to all and everyone. Grab a can of Red Stripe, a signature ginger mojito, or even apiña colada and position yourself under the mirror ball on that groovy (and often sweaty) dance floor. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, campaign data and keep track of site usage for the site's analytics report.

This ‘agaveria’ offers mezcal, tequila, soto and raicilla drinks as well as their signatureMirror Margarita, a clear, dangerously smooth twist on the classic cocktail.