News

We are extremely proud to announce a DOUBLE Inception Group win at the London Lifestyle Awards 2020, with Cahoots winning Best Bar of the Year and Maggie’s winning Best Late Night Venue of the Year! After a very difficult eighteen months, we could not be happier to receive this uplifting news, and it’s truly wonderful to see London coming back to life!

A very well-deserved congratulations goes to our wonderful teams, for their hard work and dedication in getting our venues back up and running. And lastly, a huge well done to the team at Mr Fogg’s Society of Exploration, who had also made it to the Top Ten Bars of the Year. Celebrate with us and book a table at Cahoots, Maggie’s and Mr Fogg’s Society of Exploration!

After a very tough year and a half, we’re delighted to be sharing some very GOOD NEWS!

We are very excited to have signed a 20 year lease on the iconic Soho institution on Great Chapel Street – The London Gin Club! After founding it in 2012, Julia Forte and Vicky Fisher successfully ran the bar for seven years before sadly being forced to close in 2019, due to severe damage caused by Crossrail. Whilst they remain freeholders, it’s the first time they’ve had tenants in the 88 years of their family owning the building!

Now that the Crossrail damage has been repaired, we are thrilled to announce the grand reopening of The London Gin Club in September 2021, largely as we knew it before. Stay tuned to find out our reopening date soon…

We are delighted to at last have the green light to return to business much closer to normal. All our venues will be fully open from July 19th and we can’t wait to welcome people back, even to get a drink from the bar again! Explore our eleven London sites HERE.

Maggie’s, our 1980s nightclub, has had a complete refurbishment and is reopening at 12.01am on Monday 19th July (i.e. this coming Sunday night) with its brand new look! Think outlandish new cocktails, mind-blowing retro lighting, a bigger drinks bar covered in cassette tapes, and MORE 1980s vibes. We’re making up for lost time and opening every night for the first week, before returning to our Thursday-Saturday opening days. To be one of the first back on the dance floor, book a table or guestlist spot HERE.

All our unique spaces at Bunga Bunga are fully open for celebrations, with everything from the relaunch of Singo Bingo and our Club Bunga at Battersea, to our new season of nightly shows at Covent Garden, including SingalongaBunga Thursdays! With a heatwave on its way, our Mr Fogg’s Secret Garden in Mayfair is a great new addition to the group. The perfect spot for a summer party, it will also now be open on Sundays from August onwards! Book a table at any of our venues HERE.

With events back in full swing from July 19th, join us for private drinks, hearty lunches, tipsy teas, immersive dinners, gin tastings and more across the Mr Fogg’s Collection, Cahoots, Barts, both Bunga Bunga’s and Maggie’s. From small gatherings of 10 people to parties of up to 450 guests, explore our venue hire options HERE.

We will, of course, continue with enhanced hygiene and safety measures throughout the venues, but we can’t wait to get back towards how things were before March 2020!

We will also continue to deliver our much-loved at-home cocktails by Cahoots and Mr Fogg’s, including our brilliant newly-launched Cahoots ‘Raid the Larder’ cocktail-making kit for two, just in time for Mother’s Day on 14th March! Find out more HERE.

For those of you with missed or upcoming celebrations, we are now able to book in private events for up to 30 people from 17th May, followed by much larger events from 21st June onwards. Please contact a member of our events team HERE with any enquiry, big or small!

When we reopen our 11 venues, it is our top priority to create safe environments for our customers and staff, but of course we will ensure we will be doing so in true Inception Group style! Read more to find out how we have devised fun solutions for potential social distancing and PPE requirements…

Rather than removing a third of our furniture to maintain social distancing at Mr Fogg’s Residence in Mayfair, visitors will have the pleasure of making the acquaintance of an assortment of Victorian characters – in mannequin form – from Jules Verne’s novel, Around the World in 80 Days. Placed at intermittent tables, these mannequins will help maintain the typically buzzy bar atmosphere when we reopen, whilst enforcing safe social distancing measures.

At Mr Fogg’s House of Botanicals in Fitzrovia, we have found a solution in-bee-keeping with the bar’s blossoming natural surroundings. Well-known as an oasis of exotic flora and fauna in Fitzrovia, our in-house botanists and guests may be asked to don beekeeping suits, or simply the protective head veil, instead of using traditional PPE.

At Cahoots, repurposed gas masks may make an appearance in our post-war themed cocktail bar, as robust facial covering solutions. Whilst this historical headpiece would look out of place anywhere else, at Cahoots it has the potential to become just another eccentric part of the immersive experience that guests have come to know and love at this unusual 1940s Soho drinking den.

Renowned ‘80s haven and iconic late-night bar on Chelsea’s Fulham Road, Maggie’s will transform into a Club Tropicana paradise, filled with inflatable rubber rings to aid party-goers to keep a safe distance whilst dancing. The Maggie’s A-Team has also stocked up on metre-long litter pickers, which will allow staff to safely pass drinks over the bar, as well as enabling guests to cheers at a suitable distance, in a safe yet entertaining way.

At Barts, decorative theatrical masks will cover the faces of our talented team of mixologists at our 1920s Prohibition-themed speakeasy, tucked away in Sloane Avenue’s Chelsea Cloisters. Dressing up at Barts has always been customary with our quirky fancy dress box, inviting guests to don eccentric glad rags, akin to those worn by party-goers at extravagant parties during the Roaring Twenties. The addition of masks will create a dual sense of mystery and, crucially, safety – enhancing both the theatrics and protection of the cocktail presentation.