Bar Termini occupies a narrow ground-floor room on Old Compton Street, Soho, and operates on the principle of the Italian railway bar: compact, precise, and without unnecessary surfaces. The cocktail list is short and not subject to seasonal revision. The Negroni — served in a small, cold glass — is widely considered the best in London; the Campari soda and the house vermouth are the correct aperitivo orders. The bar is small enough that conversation is unavoidable but quiet enough that it remains optional. The espresso machine is Italian and the barista knowledge is serious — this is a bar that takes the coffee as seriously as the cocktails, which is the Italian railway bar logic completed.
Soho, London, United Kingdom