Bars & Pubs

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: 0.2 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: 0.3 mls

Well

This neat bar-brasserie on St John Street is part of the Martin Brothers' burgeoning empire. The ground floor is mostly taken up by deliberately worn-out wooden dining...

Clerkenwell: 180 St John Street, EC1V 4JY

Distance: 0.3 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: 0.3 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: 0.3 mls

Bavarian Beerhouse

This low-rent homage to Bavaria looks like it was cobbled together yesterday with the contents of someone’s student flat (unpolished pale wood panels, a cheap Ikea...

Shoreditch: 190 City Road, EC1V 2QH

Distance: 0.3 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: 0.3 mls

Peasant

Gin palace turned gastropub, the pleasant Peasant exudes a contemporary tone with its continental draught beers and posters of punk rock stars. Where did they get that...

Clerkenwell: 240 St John Street, EC1V 4PH

Distance: 0.3 mls

CAMP (City Arts and Music Project)

Temporary arts and drinking space in Shoreditch

Shoreditch: 70-74 City Rd, EC1Y 2BJ

Distance: 3564 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: 0.4 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: 0.4 mls

Old Red Cow

Smithfield boozer

Barbican: 71 Long Lane, EC1A 9EJ

Distance: 0.4 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: 0.4 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: 0.4 mls

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: 0.4 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: 0.4 mls

Corney & Barrow

City: 1 Ropemaker Street, EC2Y 9HT

Distance: 0.4 mls

Sosho

If it’s well-executed cocktails you’re after, this east London outpost of the Match bar empire delivers the goods. Fruity concoctions include the Space Gin Smash...

Shoreditch: 2 Tabernacle Street, EC2A 4LU

Distance: 0.4 mls

The East Room

This cracking bar shares the same conceit of faux-exclusivity as its established Soho sibling, Milk & Honey. That is, anyone can get in before 11pm, as long as they...

Shoreditch: 2a Tabernacle St, EC2A 4LU

Distance: 0.4 mls

Puncheon (branch of Davy's)

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

Distance: 0.4 mls

Prophet (branch of Balls Brothers)

City: 5-11 Worship Street, EC2A 2BH

Distance: 0.4 mls

Three Kings of Clerkenwell

The Three Kings remains a wonderful place to drink in, despite the apparent disappearance of the equally wonderful black pub cat whose style and attitude fitted so...

Clerkenwell: 7 Clerkenwell Close, EC1R 0DY

Distance: 0.4 mls

The Green

Part-French and part-Spanish in its gastronomic leanings, the street corner Green attracts a discerning professional clientele thanks to the quality of its cuisine and...

Clerkenwell: 29 Clerkenwell Green, EC1R 0DU

Distance: 0.4 mls

El Vino

City: 3 Bastion High Walk, 125 London Wall, EC2Y 5AP

Distance: 0.4 mls

City Boot (branch of Davy's)

City: 7 Moorfields High Walk, EC2Y 9DP

Distance: 0.4 mls

Bishops Finger

Faversham brewery Shepherd Neame runs this rather splendid, sleek and varnished boozer on a quiet crescent near Smithfield Market. It once had a Smithfield 375...

Clerkenwell: 9-10 West Smithfield, EC1A 9JR

Distance: 0.5 mls

Aquarium

Just as Old Street was earning a place on the world's map of cool, this club opened in 1995 to add a healthy dash of knowing cheesiness. Famous as the club with the...

Shoreditch: 256-260 Old Street, EC1V 9DD

Distance: 0.5 mls

William IV

While nearby Old Street and its environs become an increasingly manic party district, the hidden-away William IV keeps its cool as a civilised, homely pub where you...

Shoreditch: 7 Shepherdess Walk, N1 7QE

Distance: 0.5 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: 0.5 mls