Of all the bars in Mayfair, this one is Richard Corrigan’s own — Dickie to those who know him, and the name over the door. It sits inside Corrigan’s Mayfair on Upper Grosvenor Street, a few doors from Grosvenor Square: a dark, atmospheric room with deep booths and a handful of stools at the bar, for anyone who would rather watch a martini being made than wait for one. No bookings, nothing to arrange. Just arrive.
Forty Irish Whiskeys
The shelves hold Richard’s own collection — forty-one Irish whiskeys, from a Jameson to Redbreast 21 Year and Midleton’s Barry Crockett Legacy, by way of Green Spot, Yellow Spot, Red Spot and four Kinahan’s cask finishes you won’t find in many rooms in London. Beyond Ireland there are sixty-three more: Islay and Speyside, Yamazaki and Hakushu, bourbon and rye. A hundred and four in all.
And because this is an Irish kitchen, there’s Guinness on tap, poured properly, alongside Dickie’s Lager, brewed for us in Cornwall.
Mayfair Martinis are a Must
The martini list runs six deep at £18 — a Classic with Beefeater or Ketel One, lemon or olive, dirty or dry; a Vesper; a Gibson with homemade onion brine and dry sherry; an Autumn Fig; a Citrus Drop; and a Beluga Gold Line at £25.
Eleven signatures sit alongside them, and the best are the Irish ones: an Irish Apple Sour built on Green Spot, and Dickie’s Irish Coffee with Jameson Black Barrel. For something stranger, there’s a Celery Negroni and a Lapsang Manhattan.
Bar Snacks a Plenty
As well as our excellent bar snacks, the full restaurant menu is served at the bar, so you can have Richard’s game, seafood and whatever the season is doing without leaving your stool, or keep it light with the bar bites.
Corrigan’s opened here in 2008, holds three AA Rosettes, and took London Restaurant of the Year from the Evening Standard in its first year.
Where to find us, and when we’re open
Corrigan’s Mayfair, 28 Upper Grosvenor Street, London W1K 7EH.
Marble Arch is the nearest station at about nine minutes on foot, Bond Street ten, Hyde Park Corner fourteen, Green Park sixteen.
Dickie’s Bar opens at 4.30pm on Mondays and at noon Tuesday to Saturday, and runs until late. The dining room serves lunch Tuesday to Saturday, noon to 2.30pm, and dinner Monday to Saturday — from 4.30pm on Mondays, 5pm the rest of the week. Closed Sundays.
The bar takes no bookings. For the dining room or a private room, book online.