Best Speakeasies in the United Kingdom

Most of these hidden bars are in London, and each makes you work to get in. The best speakeasies in the United Kingdom include Scales, hidden below a Mayfair bottle shop. At the St Martins Lane hotel, Blind Spot sits behind a concealed door at the tea counter; Time Out says to shake the hand sticking out of the foyer wall. Nightjar waits at the bottom of a staircase on City Road, behind an unassuming door. At Bar Lina, the way in runs through the Lina Stores deli and down to a scarlet basement. Bar Lina welcomes walk-ins, and from 8pm on Fridays and Saturdays it takes walk-ins only. These are the bars we would start with.