Bars & Pubs

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: 0.2 mls

Hat & Feathers

Traffic roared around this forgotten building for years, but only recently did anyone care enough to put this two-floor bar and restaurant in it, magnificent yellow...

Clerkenwell: 2 Clerkenwell Road, EC1M 5PQ

Distance: 0.3 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: 0.3 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: 0.3 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

Prophet (branch of Balls Brothers)

City: 5-11 Worship Street, EC2A 2BH

Distance: 0.4 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: 0.4 mls

Corney & Barrow

City: 1 Ropemaker Street, EC2Y 9HT

Distance: 0.4 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: 0.4 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: 0.4 mls

Fox

A real post-work magnet on Thursday and Friday nights, when you can hardly see the bar for bodies, the Fox is a delight the rest of the week. Plus points include an...

Shoreditch: 28 Paul Street, EC2A 4LB

Distance: 0.4 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: 0.4 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: 0.4 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: 0.4 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: 0.4 mls

Princess

Just like the Fox down the road, the Princess has a ground floor bar topped by a very decent restaurant. The differences are all about style. The look here is less pub...

Shoreditch: 76-78 Paul Street, EC2A 4NE

Distance: 0.4 mls

Princess of Shoreditch

Gastropub with fine dining upstairs

Shoreditch: 76-78 Paul St, EC2A 4NE

Distance: 0.4 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: 0.4 mls

Pulpit (branch of Davy's)

Shoreditch: 63 Worship Street, EC2A 2DU

Distance: 0.4 mls

City Boot (branch of Davy's)

City: 7 Moorfields High Walk, EC2Y 9DP

Distance: 0.4 mls

East Village

Small club, big line-ups, they say - and we wholeheartedly agree. Since the place formerly known as Medicine Bar opened in February 2008, with a classy facelift and...

Hoxton: 89 Great Eastern Street, EC2A 3HX

Distance: 0.4 mls

Favela Chic

With its odious name and a website that gabbles on about 'a big eclectic family that has grown organically throughout time', it's easy to distrust this ultra-hip...

Shoreditch: 91-93 Great Eastern Street, EC2A 3HZ

Distance: 0.4 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: 0.5 mls

Old Red Cow

Smithfield boozer

Barbican: 71 Long Lane, EC1A 9EJ

Distance: 0.5 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: 0.5 mls

Wenlock Arms

From the outside, the Wenlock doesn't look like much at all. And to be honest, it doesn't look like much from the inside either: it's just a boxy room that hasn't been...

Shoreditch: 26 Wenlock Road, N1 7TA

Distance: 0.5 mls

Charlie Wright's International Bar

It's just a few metres from Old Street, but this no nonsense bar feels miles away from the Shoreditch scene. Decent Thai food (you can eat well for a fiver) keeps...

Shoreditch: 45 Pitfield Street, N1 6DA

Distance: 0.5 mls

El Vino

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

Distance: 0.5 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: 0.5 mls