Plateau Bar & Grill

Plateau is the sort of slick contemporary proposition that could be in Toronto, Seoul, Frankfurt – or any other concrete and glass financial hub. Needless to say, suit-wearers predominate. But enter this fourth-floor restaurant’s curiously named ‘leather bar’ and you might encounter Forbidden Fruit and Jeux d’Amour: two from a varied and creative list of cocktails (from £9) that incorporates the classics as well as ‘signature serves’. Other sexy calls we like making here include Temptation (a vanilla-infused Ketel One and orgéat fruity cooler), and Estupendo (a Tequila, peach and cinnamon sour). Snacks have a Eurasian bent, with the likes of Korean-style wings or chilli-spiced rice balls vying for attention with cod pancakes, croque monsieur-ettes, and feta, tomato and olive parcels. The terrace is the place to sample the impressive cigar selection.