The 100 best bars and pubs in London: the full list

There’s a serene simplicity in all the cocktails here

A comfortable pub with an excellent beer list is a dangerous proposition, and you could certainly spend many happy hours here

Nowadays, almost every new pub tries to sell itself on a ‘craft beer’ offer, but not all manage it on this scale - there are 11 on keg, five or six on cask, plus a couple of quality ciders

This warm and welcoming former gatehouse offers more than 15 still and sparkling ciders on draught and straight from the keg

The sheer number of brews on offer here is enough to make beer fans go weak at the knees before they’ve even got a glass in their hand

Try a bellini made not with peach purée but with celeriac purée; or a ‘Greco-Roman wine’, infused with the likes of smoked paprika cordial

The house drinks all come with a bespoke food accompaniment, a classy touch, and their prices reflect that

The cocktail list is not extensive but there’s something for every taste, and the drinks are made to a very high standard

The cocktails, served by impeccably pleasant staff, are strong, well-balanced and classy

This backstreet boozer dates back to the mid-nineteenth century, and you can feel the history in the weathered wood of the joyously unmodernised main bar

The residents of these quiet terraces have taken the Prince to heart: it’s busy most nights

One of the best pubs in London - fact

Apart from its architecture, the main reason for a trip to the Salisbury is for a peaceful pint with extensive elbow room

The sign outside announces ‘ale, cider, meat’, and that pretty much sums up what’s on offer at the best pub in Gospel Oak

Visit and remind yourself that in a city full of institutions, the London pub is perhaps the best one we’ve got

Neither trashy nor pretentious, the vibe here is fun but still stylish

The Carpenter’s Arms was once under the rule of East End gangsters Ronnie and Reggie Kray (and apparently run by their old mum)

The sizeable Cat & Mutton sits proudly at the helm of Hackney's Broadway Market, and has been welcoming its costermongers and consumers for 300 years

The beer, being visibly brewed on site, is varied and tasty, with a good selection of international craft ales on hand to boot

Craft beer done the time-honoured Low-Country way

Incredible cocktails, and, in our experience, dazzlingly wonderful service

Bartenders know everything there is to know about balance of flavours here

The perfect update of a local community boozer: its clientele reflect all shades of local life

Mission’s aim is to promote interesting and unusual California wines

The selection of beer bottles here is just staggering

A gorgeous, low-lit room with comfortable seating, smooth table service and a long, playful cocktail list

Despite its location at the epicentre of the Shoreditch party scene and its association with hipster bible Vice (which bought the place in 2004), the Old Blue Last does a remarkable job of defying preconceptions

The Palm Tree provides a Cockney experience more intense than Danny Dyer pulling pints at the Queen Vic

The puntastic cocktails at Peg + Patriot are as creative as their names suggest

This is a London drinker with character rather than an image

The Prospect seems hardly to have changed since the days of dock workers and deckhands

We like the Queen’s Arms: it’s just the right balance between posh and prosaic

Sager & Wilde's main selling point – its wines – are served at a reasonable price by the bottle or glass

Some of the best cocktails to be found in Bethnal Green’s burgeoning booze scene

Live music is the Sebright’s biggest draw, with gigs on almost every night in the louche basement

The Spurstowe never tries too hard to impress – which of course just wouldn’t wash in this trendy part of town

In the evenings, the Sun gets busy. Not surprising: there’s a lot to love here

Comparing White Lyan to your local boozer is like comparing Heston Blumenthal’s Fat Duck to a greasy spoon

Even when the drinks sound a little wacky, they have a tendency to taste great

Think ‘1950s village hall’: it’s full of gorgeous wood panelling, stained glass windows, church pews and criss-crossing floral fabric bunting

There are more than 50 cocktails on the lengthy list, but the speciality is vodka

There’s free live music (of varying quality, which is all part of the fun) Monday to Thursday, and on Friday and Saturday nights, the Bedford plays host to brilliantly intimate comedy night Banana Cabaret

One of the best beer and ale pubs in London, which makes its incongruous location on an otherwise unloved section of Brixton Road even more incredible

Three floors of bow-fronted Georgian magic, with the top-level room in particular giving fantastic Thames views both up- and downstream

The endlessly rotating list of guest ales means you’re unlikely to find a beer lover who can’t find something new to relish each week

Always a decent local boozer, the H&B’s crafty reinvention has made it something quite special

It welcomes locals of all ages for a mates-rates pint of locally brewed ale, carefully sourced pub food and events ranging from live music to yoga classes, knitting circles and kids’ dance lessons

The real draw is Happy Hour: from Tuesday to Saturday, 5-8pm, and all day on Sunday, cocktails cost around £6

It’s fun, it’s nice, it’s got personality: LP is a proper destination

Of all the Thamesside pubs, this one is the most special, the most atmospheric, the most tucked-away

Welcome to the spiritual home of London's craft beer revolution

A haven for anyone who likes cocktails with subtle layers of flavour

If you asked your granddad to design a pub this is probably exactly what he’d come up with, and we mean that in the best possible way

Perfectly treading the line between old man boozer and cutesy retro watering hole, this Victorian corner pub’s a lovely blend of the scruffy and the pretty

Slightly tucked away from the hullabaloo that is Clapham at the weekend, this is a place to get merry with your well-behaved friends

It's no wonder nobody wants to leave at kicking-out time

It remains one of the only places for miles around where you can sup on dozens of carefully crafted beers

On long summer days, the beer garden beckons: soak up some rays and some delicious English cider

The cellar and fridges are filled with an almost absurdly generous range of the finest brews from London, Britain and beyond

A refurbished boozer that takes its place among the city’s best riverside pubs

A classic duck-your-head heritage pub experience, but most drinkers come here to sit in the vine-entangled conservatory or the riverside terrace

The G&D is pouring beers made on the premises, possibly for the first time in centuries

One of west London’s true star bars

A little slice of nineteenth-century London tucked away among the imposing mansions and canals around Warwick Avenue

The Princess Victoria is a cracking pub, certainly up there with the capital’s finest

The rum selection is enormous, and you could spend weeks here without getting through it all

Underneath the thick layer of kitsch is a very good cocktail bar

Glasses start from a few quid a pop, with bottles from just under £20  – and there are plenty in the blow-out category

Chesterfield-style sofas surround huge tables, ideal for families and groups of friends, though the umbrella-covered outdoor tables are most coveted from spring on

The Windsor Castle is clad in aged wood the brown of Princess Anne’s saddle; still intact are decorative wooden screens installed by the Victorians to separate the sexes while they got sloshed