Bars & Pubs

The Distillers - Smithfield

Situated in the heart of Farringdon, The Distillers Smithfield is the newly opened sister pub of The Distillers Hammersmith and The Bedford, in Balham. Serving quality...

Clerkenwell: 66 West Smithfields , London, EC1A 9DY

Distance: 0.1 mls

Cellar Gascon

If you fancy a trip to southern France without leaving London, head to Smithfields and settle into a table at Cellar Gascon, the attractive wine-focused annex to the...

Clerkenwell: 59 West Smithfield, EC1A 9DS

Distance: 0.1 mls

Old Red Cow

Smithfield boozer

Barbican: 71 Long Lane, EC1A 9EJ

Distance: 0.1 mls

Vinoteca

Vinoteca is much more than a ‘wine bar’. Yes, you can come in and savour one of the 15 or so wines by the glass, but you can also buy a bottle or a case from the...

Farringdon: 7 St John Street, EC1M 4AA

Distance: 0.1 mls

Corney & Barrow

City: 3 Fleet Place, EC4M 7RD

Distance: 0.1 mls

St John

Like bar, like restaurant: St John is quality through and through. Stark to the point of institutional, this eaterie of considerable renown offers a selection of...

Clerkenwell: 26 St John Street, EC1M 4AY

Distance: 0.1 mls

Charterhouse

Opposite Smithfield Market, this bar shaped like a Trivial Pursuit wedge is a pleasantly understated affair. A modest counter dispenses draught Kronenbourg and San...

Clerkenwell: 38 Charterhouse Street, EC1M 6JH

Distance: 0.1 mls

Puncheon (branch of Davy's)

Farringdon: Unit 5, Cowcross Place, Cowcross Street, EC1M 6DQ

Distance: 0.1 mls

Fluid

Wantonly tacky, petite two-floor Fluid brings Japanese pop sensibilities to Clerkenwell. Manga art and retro computer games feature above, and downstairs a brash mural...

Clerkenwell: 40 Charterhouse Street, EC1M 6JN

Distance: 0.1 mls

Jamies

City: 1 Fleet Place, EC4M 7RA

Distance: 0.2 mls

Fabric

In Fabric's very early days, one promoter suggested that the new venue would become a latter-day Haçienda. Nine years on, the prophecy has come true: you wouldn't be...

Clerkenwell: 77A Charterhouse Street, EC1M 3HN

Distance: 0.2 mls

Vivat Bacchus

What is it about quotations and wine bars? Scrawled throughout this rambling venue you’ll find ‘Champagne is a way of life, a state of mind, and better than...

Farringdon: 47 Farringdon Street, EC4A 4LL

Distance: 0.2 mls

Fox & Anchor

The meat workers of Smithfield (and countless clubbers) were up in arms when this early-opening boozer closed in 2006. They have Malmaison to thank for its return, and...

Farringdon: 115 Charterhouse Street, EC1M 6AA

Distance: 0.2 mls

Hand & Shears

'Established 1532', says the sign, but a pub stood here even centuries before that. Oval-shaped, with an island bar of similar outline, the Hand & Shears is named...

Clerkenwell: 1 Middle Street, EC1A 7JA

Distance: 0.2 mls

Saint (branch of Jamies)

City: 1 Rose Street, Paternoster Square, EC4M 7DQ

Distance: 0.2 mls

Ye Olde Mitre Tavern

Consistently voted one of the best pubs in London by self-proclaimed experts on internet forums - and you'd have to say they've got this one spot on. Its secluded...

Holborn: 1 Ely Court, Ely Place side of 8 Hatton Garden, EC1N 6SJ

Distance: 0.2 mls

Jerusalem Tavern

Tilting, creaking and uneven, the cosily tatty JT serves the sought-after ales of Suffolk's St Peter's brewery. Behind the bar, seemingly hidden amid the timber...

Clerkenwell: 55 Britton Street, EC1M 5UQ

Distance: 0.2 mls

Last (branch of Balls Brothers)

City: 73 Shoe Lane, EC4A 3BQ

Distance: 0.2 mls

Corney & Barrow

More famous once for its wine merchant arm, Corney & Barrow launched its wine bar business during the style bar whim of the 1990s. The bars have become firmly...

City: 10 Paternoster Square, EC4M 7DX

Distance: 0.3 mls

Match EC1

The stickers on Match EC1's door boast of bar awards won a decade or so ago; and though the world has moved on, the original of three Match bars (there's another on...

Clerkenwell: 45-47 Clerkenwell Road, EC1M 5RS

Distance: 0.3 mls

Apostle (branch of Jamies)

City: 34 Ludgate Hill, EC4M 7DE

Distance: 0.3 mls

City Pipe (branch of Davy's)

City: 33 Foster Lane, off Cheapside, EC2V 6HD

Distance: 0.3 mls

Dion St Paul's

City: Paternoster House, 65 St Paul's Churchyard, EC4M 8AB

Distance: 0.3 mls

White Swan Pub & Dining Room

The Martin Brothers have done a bang-up job of refurbishing the former Mucky Duck pub: wood sides and bottom, intricately carved settle, a mirror so vast half of it...

City: 108 Fetter Lane, EC4A 1EP

Distance: 0.3 mls

Volupté

One of the pioneers of London’s new breed of supper clubs, Volupté caters for people who don’t mind blowing £20 on a burlesque show. The ground-floor bar might...

Chancery Lane: 7-9 Norwich Street, EC4A 1EJ

Distance: 0.3 mls

Davy's at Creed Lane

Although this chain of wine bars was launched in the 1960s, many of its sites look as old as the founding date of Davy’s wine merchants: 1870. Now owned by the fifth...

City: 10 Creed Lane, EC4M 8SH

Distance: 0.3 mls

Slaughtered Lamb

Friday nights are a scrum in this art gallery turned gastro-ish pub. Just as well it's a big, lively space, the central bar being particularly well positioned for...

Clerkenwell: 34-35 Great Sutton Street, EC1V 0DX

Distance: 0.3 mls

Hat & Tun

Martin brothers boozer

Clerkenwell & Farringdon: 3 Hatton Wall, EC1N 8HX

Distance: 0.3 mls

Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese

If you were to put a branch of All Bar One at one end of the drinking den spectrum, you'd find this pub leering at it with yellowing teeth from the other. Gloriously...

Fleet Street: 145 Fleet Street, EC4A 2BU

Distance: 0.4 mls