Search for a jazz bar. Regardless if you like jazz or not. For some unapparent reason jazz gigs always turns out magical.

If you really hate jazz take your partner to Borshtch n Tears - Борщ И Слёзы. It will be an fun experience. https://maps.app.goo.gl/RJFUGJqKk6wXiNTs50

Goo to the effra social, then Dogstar

Brixton

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt-JQm-t36I

Soho, Shoreditch, Clapham or Brixton. You’ll find a good concentration of bars in these areas.

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Maybe the Blues Kitchen in Brixton? But I am old , so 🤷🏼‍♀️

Soho, Shoreditch & Piccadilly square/Leicester Square

I’m tryna find some good nightclubs, me and my friends are going to London this weekend. We’re Americans so tryna get some recommendations

Used to be dancetunnel so I guess it’s fabric now

raves r where its at or events in general theyre cheaper

Wait you guys leave your mothers basements?

Tape

Southbank/Borough/Bermondsey street - great bar/pub scene

I actually like Finsbury Park / Holloway Rd area.

Something like The Lamb to New River Studios to Orleans is a fun night.

I would probably say Dalston, but I’m biased as I lived there for years and then only moved down the road.

Dalston Superstore is the answer. There is nowhere in London as bizarre, beautiful, and engaging as Superstore. 

  And if anyone knows anywhere else please tell me as I've been looking for decades.

Deptford

FOLD, hands down the best club in london! Always a great crowd, LGBTQ friendly, amazing soundsystem!

FOLD, Venue MOT, Lion and Lamb, the Cause, the Goose, Corsica and Star Lane Pizza Bar are all great.

Fabric has a great sound system and lineups but a terrible crowd unless you go after 4am or on a Sunday.

MOT and Ormside Projects are the best clubs / have the best programming imo

FOLD is great

The Cause was good, haven’t been to the new venue tho

Lion & lamb is much more chill but has great DJs playing there. It’s a pub that turns almost club at night, but we’ll put together

Corsica and FOLD for the sound alone. I also like the size of them where it's very easy to find your mates when you eventually get separated + a crowd that's there to dance.

Dunno where you are but The Lexington is a great bar and it closes at 4 on the weekend but usually drones on till about 4:30 if it’s busy.

There’s the bar downstairs and the dancefloor upstairs. It’s the only spot I’ve been to that’s gone back to it’s pre-covid numbers.

Shacklewell Arms in Dalston is a great spot too. Closes at 3 on weekends. If you say where you are I might have suggestions closer to you. As a general rule for late night drinking avoid West and South.

Ruby's in Dalston was such a place but now got closed (edit: Not closed but turned into a restaurant / cantina which effectively changed the vibes), Simmons in Soho is open until like 4 a.m. but anyone who's over the age of 24 automatically turns into ash when entering the premises.

London is an absolute desert when it comes to post 1 a.m. except a few clubs or bars with music.

Edit / Addendum: Another Redditor down mentioned Lexington in Angel, two stories so the club area is separated if you want to chill (open until 4 a.m.)

I'll add The Old Queens Head in Angel, also two storeys and open until 3 a.m.

Bar Italia is not drinks per-se but still a nice place to hang out in Soho.

Paris nightlife is crazy compared to London. I don’t think London compares in terms of how late normal places like cafe bars are open until.

There will be more chilled places open until 2am but in Paris you can sit chatting in a chilled cafe bar until 5am.

This is one of the most disappointing things about London nightlife. I was always under the impression it was a "city that never sleeps" type of place, but unless you're wanting to move into a club post-midnight, you're pretty stuffed.

I'd love to find a place that has a pub atmosphere (no ridiculously loud music), serves alcohol, and remains open until the early hours.

RIP Canavan's , the most hated best late night bar / club in London

Hey grabbed the best spots from this thread here: https://quester.io/q/51863864. Thought it would be useful to return to. Since I gave up drinking during the pandemic, this has been an obsession of mine (Ronnie Scott's is probs my fave)

London is also well known to have a lot of hookers

Timeout magazine used to be good, I can't say I've had a look recently however.

There's plenty of late comedy, music, theatre, cinema screenings etc if you look through listings.

Prince Charles cinema often does special events where they play multiple films back to back overnight

Ents 24 has all the listings.

Dogging

Meat me there

There's some late night activities that happens down in Hampstead heath

Try the local British legion

I don’t think they let old people in da club

Bacchus or Pryzm in Kingston are SW London. Check what the theme is for each night is to find the one that suits. Popular dance music is hard to pin down though. Most DJs aim to be popular and to make you dance!
The places I mentioned have nights ranging from 80s to hardcore.

You can start with some beers or other at "The Grand Boulevard" (it's a street) there is some pubs and then finish or start the night at "The Rex Club"

Don't know lot about nightclubs, but there are couple of Irish pubs in Châtelet

Check shotgun or RA out. You’ll find something for your taste. Not sure if you’ll come across other Brits tho.

Follow the noise?

You can always head down into madness of Rue de la roquette and it's insane little brother, Rue de lappe.

Also good, less mental in that area is Oberkampf loads of great bars there for thrusting, vibrant young party goers.