Cocktail bar · Soho, London W1 · Now open

Nine Lives W1

Our Soho cocktail bar is here to stay. Earlier this summer we packed up our shakers and headed west, and now we're staying for Season Two.

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The bar at Nine Lives W1: steel-fronted counter with four chrome bar stools, rattan pendant lamps and trailing plants above the back bar
The lounge at Nine Lives W1: wooden banquettes, low tables and plants beneath tall windows looking out onto Dean Street, with parquet floor and a speaker on a stand
  • Wed–Sat 5 pm till midnight
  • Walk in No booking needed
  • Floor 1 75 Dean Street, W1
  • From £12 cocktails, drinks only

Meet NL W1

Floor 1 · 75 Dean Street · Soho

Our Soho cocktail bar, upstairs on Dean Street at the legendary former home of De Lane Lea.

The 360-degree spatial audio listening room at 75 Dean Street, lit red, with sound engineers at the mixing desk

A bar-in-residence at Polygon Portal, London's first 360° spatial audio listening room.

We're tucked inside 75 Dean Street, the legendary former home of De Lane Lea. Now the official Soho sister venue, we're slinging out the Nine Lives greatest hits and old-school classics.

Same golden-hour lighting, same foliage, same warm welcome. Just a bit further west.

Two cocktails on a round wooden table beside a brass table lamp and a stack of books, with palm leaves casting shadows on the wall at Nine Lives

Soho cocktails · Signatures, remixed classics, sharing serves

The drinks

Home of the viral
Frozen Paloma.

The back bar at Nine Lives W1, with chalkboard menus for the Margarita, Southside and Paloma, glassware on open shelves and glowing rattan lamps

The menu is a collection of signature cocktails and remixed classics. The signatures are Nine Lives favourites, old and new, from our Bermondsey bar.

Two spectacular sharing cocktails bring a little theatre to the table.

The W1 menu is always changing, led by our Soho team and made to Nine Lives standards. For a taste of what inspires it, see the Nine Lives menu. Cocktails from £12.

No booking needed. Walk in Wednesday to Saturday, from 5 pm till midnight, on Floor 1 of 75 Dean Street.

A frozen cocktail at Nine Lives: pink slush topped with a swirl of yellow foam, freeze-dried raspberry and a paper straw A Nine Lives Paloma in a tall glass with a chilli-salt rim and a pink grapefruit slice, on a marble table

Fans and friends of Polygon

Why Soho

Music has always been at the heart of Nine Lives.

A red highball cocktail with a twist of orange peel on dark velvet at Nine Lives

When Polygon offered us a home above their listening room, we jumped at the chance.

In Bermondsey, the sound system matters as much as the back bar. We've been fans and friends of Polygon for some time, and we share the same belief: music deserves to be heard properly.

So we partnered up. A Nine Lives bar upstairs, 360° spatial audio downstairs, and the heart of Soho's music history all around. Come for a drink before a session, or stay on after one.

Downstairs · 360° spatial audio

Polygon Live

Season Two · October to December 2026

Enter a new
dimension of sound.

The Polygon Portal listening room in red light: velvet lounge seats facing a screen beneath a draped fabric ceiling, with speakers around the walls

360° spatial audio puts you inside the music, so you feel it move all around you. Deeper, more physical, unlike anything you've felt before.

Using one of the world's best spatial audio sound systems, speakers are placed in every direction around the room. So music doesn't arrive from a stage. It moves through the space: drums overhead, a melody drifting in from behind, vocals soaring straight through the room.

"This is not background listening. It is music with your full attention."

Nico Elliott, co-founder, Polygon Productions

Speakers mounted along the red-lit acoustic walls of the listening room A woven lamp glowing beside a low velvet lounge seat in the listening room

Season Two highlights

Prince, UNKLE, Suede, De La Soul, Pink Floyd & more

  • October

    Prince

    Timeless

    Ten previously unreleased recordings from Prince's Vault, spanning 1977 to 2016, in spatial audio.

  • October

    UNKLE

    Beyond The Road

    The Saatchi Gallery immersive album, rebuilt for one room, with a Q&A featuring James Lavelle and the Punchdrunk creative team.

  • October

    Suede

    Coming Up · 30th anniversary

    Mixed for spatial audio for the first time by Steven Wilson, with a Q&A from Neil Codling and Mat Osman.

  • 23 October

    De La Soul

    Stakes Is High · 30th anniversary

    The anniversary edition, played in full on release day.

  • October

    Pink Floyd

    Wish You Were Here · The Dark Side of the Moon

    Anniversary sessions on selected October dates.

Also coming this season: New Order, Suzanne Ciani, Ed O'Brien, Jeff Buckley, Hawkwind, and a wellbeing programme curated by Jamie Clements.

Tickets from £19. An intimate listening room in the basement of 75 Dean Street, so sessions are small and some have already sold out. Dates and availability are on Polygon's site.

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Group bookings · Private hire

Get in touch

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Walk in · Wed–Sat
5 pm till midnight

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