Bocca
Italian restaurant and cocktail bar
A cocktail bar and Italian restaurant on Leigh Broadway with classics from an espresso martini to a Manhattan. Open Wednesday to Sunday.
📍 41 Broadway, Leigh-on-Sea SS9 1PA
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Skylah's Bar
Cocktail bar and restaurant
A stylish cocktail bar on Southchurch Road with bold drinks, food and bottomless brunch.
📍 6-8 Southchurch Rd, Southend-on-Sea SS1 2NE
Magic Monkey
Cocktail bar and small plates restaurant
A cosy, tropical-feeling bar and restaurant on Leigh Broadway with classic and inventive cocktails and Caribbean and Mediterranean small plates.
📍 119 Broadway, Leigh-on-Sea SS9 1PG
The Seven Hotel Lobby Bar
Hotel bar
The lobby bar at The Seven Hotel on Clifton Terrace, with cocktails from a strawberry mai tai to a mint chocolate grasshopper.
📍 7 Clifton Terrace, Southend-on-Sea SS1 1DT
San Fairie Ann
Restaurant and cocktail bar
A restaurant and cocktail bar on Alexandra Street for fine dining with drinks before or after.
📍 43 Alexandra St, Southend-on-Sea SS1 1BW
The Mews
Restaurant and cocktail bar
A small bar and restaurant in Nelson Mews with exposed brick, leather sofas, cocktails and mocktails.
📍 2 Nelson Mews, Southend-on-Sea SS1 1AL
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Your questions
What are the best date night bars in Southend?
Start with Bocca, Skylah's Bar, Magic Monkey, The Seven Hotel Lobby Bar and San Fairie Ann. Our full list has 6 bars.
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Who wrote this guide
This guide is written by the team at M.AD Agency. We run cocktail festivals in more than 20 towns and cities across the UK and Ireland and have worked with hundreds of bars since 2022. We love Southend's bars, so we put this guide together from our own research and trusted local guides.
No bar paid to be included and nobody can buy a place. We check the guide regularly as bars open, change and close.
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