‘Haven for the convivial, all day all night’ is what it says on the awnings of Balans No. 60 and it’s an apt tagline, given that the place is open until 5am on Wednesdays and Thursdays, and 6am on Fridays and Saturdays. The second Soho site for the group opened in 1993 (the first, No. 34 has been there since 1987) and it’s remained a popular late-night haunt ever since. You can get breakfast, pancakes, sandwiches, fried chicken, and curry after midnight, so you don’t actually need to go home, wake up hungover and queue an hour for brunch to get your eggs benny fix. The Porn Star Martinis here are world famous so it’s likely you’ll be ordering up a few of those too.
