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London: Dominion Approved

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My Dominion approved guide to London. Victorian dining rooms, rare bookshops & candlelit houses for the ones who belong in the dark.

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Where I Drink

Where I Dine

What I Haunt

Where I Drink

My chosen pours in the capital. Command the room & darken the night. These are the bars that earn my attention.

My devilish pour. Taxidermy on the walls and top-50 cocktails in the glass — Shoreditch's most gloriously unhinged bar.

Satan's Whiskers

My red vault. A hidden Soho basement built like a U-boat — all red leather, strong drinks and late-night theatre.

Zum Barbarossa

My jade door den. Three moody floors of dim lanterns and serious pours, open till 3am.

Opium Cocktail Bar - Soho

My candlelit cellar. Wine by candlelight since 1890 — the oldest wine bar in London, all low vaults and flickering candles.

Gordon's Wine Bar

Roast & candlelit rooms built for appetite. I dine where the city kneels.

My 1798 dinner. London's oldest restaurant — dark wood, red velvet and game pie under the gaze of painted royalty.

Rules Restaurant

My 1828 feast. Grand wood-panelled dining rooms, silver trolleys and roast beef carved tableside — old London at full power.

Simpson's in the Strand

My candlelit romance. The conservatory glows with fairy lights and the French menu leans fully into the mood.

Clos Maggiore

Dark bookshops, candlelit houses, old museums & my quiet dead. Follow me into the dark I rule.

I'm not into it, it's just gorgeous. The bookshop Aleister Crowley browsed — creaking shelves, strange spines, pure atmosphere.

The Atlantis Bookshop

My esoteric alley. A bookshop of the strange and mystical on Cecil Court since 1893 — go in curious, come out changed.

Watkins Books

My vanished Georgians. A candlelit Huguenot house frozen in the 1700s — silent, strange and utterly transporting.

Dennis Severs' House

My gothic walk. Tombs and catacombs swallowed by the overgrowth — the most atmospheric afternoon in London.

Highgate Cemetery

My labyrinth house. Sarcophagi, Hogarths and candlelit late openings in the strangest townhouse in London.

Sir John Soane's Museum

My cabinet of monsters. Absinthe upstairs.

Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities