Après London

With its heated smoking terrace offering sheesha at £20, plus a post-punk ‘disco cocktail cabin’ at street level, Aprés is a popular spot for a youngish, well-scrubbed metrosexy crowd who drop by après work, post-Selfridges or for West End party hook-ups. Order a bottle of wine (from £19.50 for Pinot Grigio), some bubbles or a beer to go with nibbles such as beetroot-cured salmon on toasted bagel with sour cream and caviar, cauliflower and cheese croquettes, a trio of sliders with matchstick fries or miniature savoury tartes Tatins. Cocktails (from £7) include appletini, rum espresso, watermelon martini or tall, dark and handsome – a summer berry and passion fruit-laced gin Collins. The dance floor rocks to a range of soul, house and party grooves until the wee small hours – something of a rarity in Marylebone.