London’s best urban beaches
Sure, you could take a six-hour journey to the actual seaside, for soggy chips, seagull attacks and drizzle. Or you could just enjoy one of London’s brilliant urban beaches.
Brixton Beach Boulevard
Don your pastel suit and Wayfarers and go to Brixton’s new adult playground, inspired by Eighties Miami — albeit with cracking hake tacos and fried chicken instead of hard drugs and guns.
Info: Popes Road, SW9, brixtonbeachboulevard.com
Sea Containers at the Mondrian
Feast on clay-baked lobster and oysters while the river laps gently at your feet at this hotel’s new Hamptons-inspired terrace looking out at the real sand on the edge of the Thames.
Info: 20 Upper Ground, SE1, mondrianlondon.com
The Beachcomber
It’s always tiki time at The Beachcomber, where rum bunnies soak up four-person Mad Hatter Ti Party sharer cocktails with Creole Kitchen’s brilliant saltfish fritters.
Info: 86 Queensway, W2, facebook.com/TheBeachcomberBar
Best rooftop bars and pubs in London
Beach 338
The Ibiza-style club Studio 338 has opened its terrace, which is covered with 180 tonnes of sand. No sun-lounging here — it’s all about extreme electrodance all-nighters.
Info: 338 Boord Street, SE10, studio338.co.uk
Land of Bamboo at Hawker House
Because what’s a beach without trampolines, sandpits, street food and a firepit for cocktail-fuelled sacrifices?
Info: Canada Street, SE16, streetfeast.co.uk
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