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Kwãnt Mayfair

London, UK · Mayfair cocktail bar and tasting experience · Europe

Kwãnt is a Mayfair cocktail bar offering a five-course cocktail tasting menu.

Description source 1 · Description source 2 · Checked 2026-10-07

The venue’s tasting page is undated; it was readable during this source check.

Plan Your Visit

52 Stratton Street, Mayfair, London W1J 8LN, United KingdomMayfair

Information checked on 30 September 2026 distinguishes ordinary walk-in bar visits from the separate five-course tasting sold through this storefront. Tasting availability has not been rechecked. Tasting storefront

Check before visiting. Sources disagree about hours; confirm the latest details with the venue.

Style
Refined savoury cocktails and omakase tastingChecked 2026-09-09 · Source
Booking
Walk-ins only for ordinary bar visits; a separate omakase cocktail tasting is sold through the owner-controlled Square storefront.Checked 2026-09-30 · Source
Prices
The owner lists its five-course Omakase Cocktail Experience at £90.40; individual cocktail prices were not established.Checked 2026-09-26 · Source
Menu
The owner-controlled storefront advertises a five-course omakase cocktail tasting; a current à-la-carte drinks list was not established.Checked 2026-09-26 · Source

Hours and menus can change. Check the venue’s latest details before visiting.

The score & its evidence

Seven signals. One score.

55.4 / 100

The composite combines the seven weighted signals and the published adjustments. The chart shows each signal before weighting.

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Signal / 100Score
Guest ratings
74.5
World's 50 Best
32.9
Top 500 Bars
64.5
Spirited Awards
—None found · Checked; no qualifying signal found; contributes zero
Regional Recognition
96.1
Serious press
23.2
Social Vibes
55.3

Weights: Guest ratings 23% · World's 50 Best 12% · Top 500 Bars 10% · Spirited 12% · Regional Recognition 18% · Press 10% · Social Vibes 15%

Missing evidence, confirmed none and evidence outside a scoring window each contribute zero. We do not redistribute their fixed weight to other signals.

Social Vibes

Score read updated:

mostly positive2 editorial citations; 1 mixed critic review readable.· high confidence

Sentiment score

79/ 100

The existing 79/100 and high confidence remain the historical read. This source check clarifies attribution without recalculating the score.

Score context

David Ellis’s August 2023 review finds Kwãnt’s drinks inventive but uneven, praising some combinations and disliking others. The second cited review could not be read in this check. This is historical critic evidence, not a current customer consensus.

Guest sources checked:

Guest score details

What the cited sources say

  • One critic praises inventive cocktail combinations.

Evidence limits

  • The same critic finds some experiments unsuccessful.
Source excerpt
“London hasn’t had a bar this radical in years”

David Ellis’s critic headline, published 30 August 2023. The review concerns the new Mayfair site and includes both praise and criticism; it is not a customer quotation.

Source: standard.co.uk (linked below)

This read cites editorial or award context. Those links are distinct from guest accounts; only the reviewed links in Reviews & press count toward Press.

Editorial citations in this read

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Crowd signal

Google 4.7★ across 382 reviews.

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Awards

Results from the three global systems scored separately in our formula.

World’s 50 Best

  • 2025: #79
  • 2024: #52
  • 2021: #31

    2021 recognition belongs to the earlier Kwānt venue; retained here as brand history, not an award earned by the current Mayfair room.

Top 500 Bars

Regional Recognition

Regional and national lists, local awards and bartender peer picks considered for this room's Regional Recognition score. The strongest result from each program and year scores; assessed guides use the latest accepted dated status once.

Europe's 50 Best Bars

UK Top 50 Cocktail Bars

The Bartender's Edit

Peer recommendations from working bartenders. All editions are shown for context; only the strongest placement after recency decay contributes to the score.

Reviews & press