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Below Stone Nest

Candlelit highballs in the cellar of an 1888 Welsh chapel.

RelaxedSpeakeasyOpen late

The Boxer brothers - Jackson of Brunswick House, Frank of Frank's in Peckham - took the cellar under Stone Nest and left the decay showing: bare walls, missing plaster, a candle on every table. Highballs are the point, a spirit lengthened with a mixer and served tall. The chapel above, built in 1888 and historically protected, spent 1985 to 2009 as the Limelight nightclub; in its churchgoing years the sermon was piped down here for the overflow.

Where
136 Shaftesbury Avenue, W1D 5EZ
Nearest station
Leicester Square · 2 min walk

Walk-ins only

Hours

MondayClosed
Tuesday18:00 – 02:00
Wednesday18:00 – 02:00
Thursday18:00 – 02:00
Friday18:00 – 02:00
Saturday18:00 – 02:00
SundayClosed

Hours from the page that lists them, checked 8 September 2026.

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