The London Lark
XVIII
THE MOON
Nostalgic / Vintage / Retro

Old glamour, faded elegance. A portal to another era.

26 venues in this arcana

Ace Cafe London
North West London
Chrome gleams and engines growl where rock’n’roll meets rubber and reverie.
ActOne Cinema
Acton
Golden velvet, shared hush — a screen-lit storyhouse reborn from silence.
Bar Américain at Brasserie Zédel
Piccadilly
Gilded Art Deco elegance where cocktails whisper of old New York
Cahoots
Soho
A wartime platform alive with swing, ration books and secret gin
Cittie of Yorke
Holborn
Vaulted rafters and oak casks conjure a Tudor tavern's warmth
Do Not Disturb (DND) at Vintry & Mercer
City of London
A velvet hideaway for hushed conversations and aged libations
Electric Cinema Portobello
Notting Hill
Leather armchairs and velvet curtains frame a century of cinema
Fat Boy's Diner
Trinity Buoy Wharf
Chrome, milkshakes and jukebox tunes by the river's edge
Four Quarters
Hackney Wick
Coins clink, screens glow — nostalgia served with a shot of joy.
Genesis Cinema
Bethnal Green
Popcorn and purpose — this East End gem glows with generous grit.
Honest Jon's Records
Notting Hill
Portobello's soundtrack lives in dust jackets and warm crackles.
Jazz Café POSK
Hammersmith
Red velvet, brass breath — jazz with a Slavic soul.
Jazzlive at the Crypt
Camberwell
The dead don't mind — swing lives on beneath the stone.
London Gaming Market
Bloomsbury
A room where nostalgia becomes a language strangers speak fluently.
Nightjar Shoreditch
Shoreditch
A hidden cellar where time slows and jazz blooms in the dark
Noble Rot Lamb's Conduit
Bloomsbury
Rare wines and quiet corners in literary Bloomsbury
Phoenix Cinema
Finchley
Flickering gold since 1910 — come sit in the story’s glow.
Piano Bar Soho
Soho
A basement baby grand playing the songs you forgot you needed
Rio Cinema
Dalston
A silver dream glows behind curved glass and crimson drapes.
Rivoli Ballroom
Brockley
Crimson drapes and jive nights under glittering chandeliers
Servant Jazz Quarters
Dalston
A velvet nook where the sax sighs and the spirits linger.
Spiritland
King's Cross
At Spiritland, music isn't background — it's ritual.
St James Bar at Sofitel St James
St James's
Emerald velvet and whispered glamour beneath a painted ceiling
The Candlelight Club
Secret London location
Jazz and cocktails by candlelight, lost in a secret 1920s dream
The George Inn
Southwark
A timber-galleried inn echoing with centuries of stories
The Soho Jazz Club
Soho
Low ceilings, high notes — Soho's best-kept secret hides beneath the ordinary.