Three Sheets Soho
The White Russian is clarified with egg white, the way a kitchen clears a consomme. Noel Venning on why:
We don't cheat to make them clear(Foodism).
Why go
Max and Noel Venning opened this in March 2024, eight years after Three Sheets Dalston, in a narrow room on Manette Street that widens toward a skylight at the back. The drinks look simple and are not. The Dirty Martini took a year to develop and uses Ethiopian koseret tea and olive brine in place of olive oil; the Bramble took months; the house French 75 arrives carbonated, built on clarified lemon, moscato, orange flower and verjus. Development happens at the Dalston bar under Rosey Mitchell and Simone Tasini, who have been making drinks for the brothers for over six years, and the clarification is done with kitchen technique rather than laboratory kit. The Soho list turns over in parcels of five drinks every three months, which Noel Venning states as the plan for this site specifically. The room is designed against showmanship: no drinks wall, no spotlight on the bartender, a marble bar shaped so the people sitting at it face each other.
Order this / avoid
- Order: the carbonated French 75 first, then the White Russian to see whether the consomme trick lands. Scottish Coffee if it is cold, Mango Ice Tea if it is not. British oysters with a glass of champagne, which is what the wine list is built around.
- Avoid: turning up expecting the World's 50 Best bar. That is Kingsland Road. And do not come here for theater, because the design deliberately withholds it.
What locals & experts say
- Nieves Barragan Mohacho, chef-owner of Sabor and Legado, in the MICHELIN Guide (13 February 2026), naming this branch:
Three Sheets in Soho has perfect cocktails and is always a great time.
1 - Monica Berg, bartender and co-owner of Tayer + Elementary (TOPJAW, 28 December 2024), on the brand rather than a site:
Best place for cocktails: Three Sheets. Flavours that are a bit unusual but they make them really familiar.
6 - Kaneda Pen, chef-owner of Mamapen (TOPJAW, 12 February 2025), also brand-level:
Best cocktail spot: Three Sheets. I don't need chimpanzees and palm trees on my cocktails.
7 - Restaurant (22 March 2024), Joe Lutrario, on the operators: the Vennings
are known for their deceptively simple cocktails and clean flavours
andare pioneers of pre-batching
.2 - The Dalston bar's record, stated as the sibling's: five appearances on the World's 50 Best Bars list, and seventh in the UK Top 50 Cocktail Bars as of March 2024. Those belong to Kingsland Road.
Good to know
- Where: 13 Manette Street W1D 4AP, off Charing Cross Road at the eastern edge of Soho. The top of the street is pedestrianised and the frontage folds back in summer.
- Timing: afternoon until late, seven days a week. At launch in 2024 it ran all day from morning coffee and pastries; the venue's own copy no longer says so, so treat the morning service as unconfirmed.
- Booking: through the venue site, and worth it for a table rather than a stool.
- Food: at opening the kitchen was run by ex-Lyle's chef and butcher William Blank on salt beef sandwiches, croquettes, triple-cooked chips and oysters. The venue now leads on British oysters with champagne and a burger it calls London's best, which is its own claim. Nothing on the record explains the change.
- Price: three of four. Central Soho.
- Hygiene: FSA rating 4, good, from a Westminster inspection on 2 April 2026, with component scores of 5 for hygiene, 5 for structure and 10 for confidence in management (record).
- Sites: two Three Sheets and one cousin. Three Sheets Dalston, 510B Kingsland Road E8 4AE, opened 2016, is the original and holds the awards. Little Mercies in Crouch End is the same brothers under another name. The bar on this page is Manette Street, and every award cited above is Dalston's.
Verdict
should-visit — The Vennings clear their White Russian with egg white, the way you would clear a consomme, and Noel Venning is explicit that there is no centrifuge involved. That is the whole argument for this bar: kitchen technique applied to drinks that read as simple and are not. The Dirty Martini took a year to develop and swaps olive brine for olive oil and adds Ethiopian koseret tea; the house French 75 is carbonated with clarified lemon, moscato, orange flower and verjus. The Soho list is on a stated cycle of five new drinks every three months, and the R&D happens up the road at the Dalston bar under two people who have been doing it for six years. Nieves Barragan Mohacho of Sabor and Legado told the Michelin Guide in February 2026 that Three Sheets in Soho 'has perfect cocktails and is always a great time', and she named the branch. The room is the opposite of a show: no drinks wall, no spotlight on the bartender, light on the tables, a marble bar you sit around and a facade that folds back in summer. It stops short of must-visit because the World's 50 Best record belongs to the Dalston original and no critic has yet reviewed this address on its own terms.