Martini in London, England

Seed Library is the Shoreditch cocktail bar from Ryan Chetiyawardana, the bartender better known as Mr Lyan, who reshaped London drinking in 2013 with White Lyan — the first bar to work with no perishables, no ice and no branded spirits. His later rooms, Dandelyan (named the world's best bar in 2018) and its South Bank successor Lyaness, have been fixtures of the World's 50 Best list. Opened in the basement of the One Hundred Shoreditch hotel at 100 Shoreditch High Street, Seed Library is pitched as his neighbourhood bar: less theatrical than the flagship, built around what the team call stripped-back analogue forms and a maker's touch — minimal fuss, maximum flavour, drawn from unexpected ingredients. It is a low-lit room with a pared-back, produce-led list. Its "Pathways" menu carries four dedicated non-alcoholic serves, and roughly half the full cocktail list can be rebuilt booze-free; named low- and no-alcohol drinks include the Hand-Rolled Spritz and Master Stock Plus.

Three Sheets opened on Dalston's Kingsland Road in 2016, the work of brothers Max and Noel Venning, who came down from Manchester to build a bar around a stripped-back, ingredient-first philosophy. It first traded as Between the Sheets before the pair judged the name too suggestive. The room is tiny and deliberately spare — marble-topped tables, exposed brick and candlelight — with none of the theatre or clutter of a big-format cocktail bar; the focus is squarely on what is in the glass, and that discipline has earned it a place on The World's 50 Best Bars list. The menu is split into three "sheets" by alcohol strength, and the alcohol-free run rebuilds the classics properly: a booze-free whisky sour, negroni and espresso martini built on Belgian Opius NA elixirs, with three chillies infused in vegetable glycerin to restore the heat and viscosity alcohol would otherwise give.

Dishoom's King's Cross branch is the largest and most theatrical of the group, opened in 2014 inside a former Victorian railway transit shed — a godown, in Bombay parlance — on Stable Street behind Granary Square. Dishoom was founded by cousins Shamil and Kavi Thakrar, who opened their first site in Covent Garden in 2010 as a tribute to the old Irani cafés of Bombay, the all-day institutions built by Zoroastrian Persian immigrants; the main hall here recalls a 1920s Irani café, crowned by an art deco clock modelled on the one at Bombay's Victoria Terminus. It is regularly called the best mocktail bar in London, and the non-alcoholic list is a proper menu section rather than an afterthought: a Teetotal Espresso Martini, a Sober Negroni and a rotating range of 0% beers, served all day alongside the Bombay food.

Scarfes Bar is the World's 50 Best-ranked cocktail bar inside Rosewood London, a drawing-room-style room in Holborn hung with Gerald Scarfe caricatures and driven by live nightly jazz. Under Director of Bars Andy Loudon, its printed seasonal menus now fold serious zero-proof builds into the main list rather than hiding them on a footnote. The 2025 'Long Drawn Out Sip' menu spotlighted two alcohol-free originals among its 24 creations, led by the No-Cracker 0% (Amarico, Martini Vibrante and acorn soda) and the Lost & Found 0% (juniper hydrosol, Martini Vibrante, raspberry and iris cordial).