Bars & Pubs

El Vino

The ultimate old-fashioned wine bar, in the heart of London legal land. Many a barrister finds a way here from the Courts of Justice opposite, and you’ll hear plenty...

City: 47 Fleet Street, EC4Y 1BJ

Distance: 0.1 mls

Last (branch of Balls Brothers)

City: 73 Shoe Lane, EC4A 3BQ

Distance: 0.1 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: 0.2 mls

El Vino

City: 30 New Bridge Street, EC4V 6BJ

Distance: 0.2 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: 0.2 mls

Castle

There's nothing immediately special about this corner boozer, either from the outside - big glass windows and a few hanging baskets - or inside (in spite of the refit:...

City: 26 Furnival Street, EC4A 1JS

Distance: 0.2 mls

Jamies

City: 1 Fleet Place, EC4M 7RA

Distance: 0.2 mls

Black Friar

This curiously wedge-shaped pub at the north end of Blackfriars Bridge lures significant numbers of people away from their desks at 6pm - particularly in summer, when...

City: 174 Queen Victoria Street, EC4V 4EG

Distance: 0.2 mls

Corney & Barrow

City: 3 Fleet Place, EC4M 7RD

Distance: 0.2 mls

Apostle (branch of Jamies)

City: 34 Ludgate Hill, EC4M 7DE

Distance: 0.2 mls

Seven Stars

The TV career of landlady Roxy Beaujolais may have stuttered, but her flagship pub goes from strength to strength. People pile down here on weekday evenings, knowing...

Holborn: 53 Carey Street, WC2A 2JB

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

Edgar Wallace

His bust sitting attentively on the bar counter, the pre-war penman would have appreciated this neat, well-run pub serving handpump ales and decent wines to a mainly...

Aldwych: 40 Essex Street, WC2R 3JE

Distance: 0.3 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: 0.3 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

Saint (branch of Jamies)

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

Distance: 0.3 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

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: 0.4 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: 0.4 mls

Cittie of Yorke

It's big, it's beery, but above all it's brown: the cleaners here must get through a month's worth of furniture polish in one night. There's a cosy front area, a...

Holborn: 22 High Holborn, WC1V 6BN

Distance: 0.4 mls

Dion St Paul's

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

Distance: 0.4 mls

George IV

Set on an unassuming, traffic-free junction of three streets, the spruce George IV attracts orderly students and staff from the London School of Economics opposite....

Aldwych: 26-28 Portugal Street, WC2A 2HE

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

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

Bung Hole Cellars (branch of Davy's)

Holborn: Hand Court, 57 High Holborn, WC1V 6DT

Distance: 0.4 mls

Puncheon (branch of Davy's)

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

Distance: 0.4 mls

Mustard Bar & Lounge

The sleek, black interior of this swish City bar - all sweeping banquettes, beaded curtains and globe lights - conjures up images of '60s sci-fi classic Barbarella....

City: 2 Old Change Court, Peter's Hill, EC4M 8EN

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: 0.5 mls

City Pipe (branch of Davy's)

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

Distance: 0.5 mls