Found yourself in Kings Cross? Get yourself to the Standard Hotel and seek out its ground floor bar, The Double Standard. You'll know you've found it when it feels like you've time-travelled back to the 70's London Underground. Geometric patterns, bold yellow and blue colour scheme, kitsch furnishings. If you're into retro-cool, you'll dig this place.  

Pull up a chair and dip into the experimental cocktail menu. The Pick & Fizz is sweet and bubbly. The Gherkin Martini is crisp and sour.  BarChick can never resist a pimped up Margarita so we're all over the Don Julio Blanco, Cointreau, lime & ginger foam blend that makes up the Ginger Margarita. Late-night hunger pangs? The food menu keeps rocking until 11pm. It's inspired by traditional pub classics and NYC dive bar food. Their luxe mac ‘n’ cheese topped with black truffle shavings alone is worth skipping dinner for.