Bars & Pubs

Somers Town Coffee House

French sisters Vanessa and Sabine ought to be commended for creating this thoroughly professional operation. Gallic in management and sensibility, the SCH has a...

Euston: 60 Chalton Street, NW1 1HS

Distance: 0.2 mls

Bloomsbury Bowling Lanes

Although its near-neighbour All Star Lanes makes a good stab at sophistication, BBL knows it's a big kids' playground. As well as the eight lanes, there's pool by the...

Bloomsbury: Basement, Tavistock Hotel, Bedford Way, WC1H 9EU

Distance: 0.3 mls

Positively 4th Street

You've got a lotta nerve... to put a Japan-themed, NY-style cocktail bar on a nondescript street corner halfway to Camden; but, like the Dylan song, it works. In an...

Euston: 119 Hampstead Road, NW1 3EE

Distance: 0.3 mls

Davy's at Regent's Place

Euston: Unit 2, Euston Tower, Regent's Place, NW1 3DP

Distance: 0.3 mls

Norfolk Arms

There are distinct Spanish touches to this once traditional, green-tiled boozer: the Iberian hams hanging behind the bar, the strings of peppers and garlic, and the...

Bloomsbury: 28 Leigh Street, WC1H 9EP

Distance: 0.3 mls

St Pancras Champagne Bar

Don’t let fatuous claims about this being the longest bar in Europe spoil what is a lovely pre-travel experience: glass of champagne in hand and tickets at the...

King's Cross: St Pancras International Station, Pancras Road, NW1 2QP

Distance: 0.4 mls

Carpenter's Arms

A once-sad Fitzrovia boozer was transformed by the people behind the nearby Crown & Sceptre in the spring of 2007. It shares its stablemate's taste for tap beers -...

Fitzrovia: 68-70 Whitfield Street, W1T 4EY

Distance: 0.4 mls

Hope

Welcomingly unpretentious, Hope serves decent ales and good sausages to a lunch-break and post-work, mainly white-collar crowd. Ales include Wadworth 6X, Adnams,...

Fitzrovia: 15 Tottenham Street, W1T 2AJ

Distance: 0.5 mls

Charlotte Street Blues

Blues bar in Fizrovia

Fitzrovia: 74 Charlotte St, W1T 4QH

Distance: 3564.2 mls

Jetlag

Japanese-style international sports bar in Fitzrovia

Fitzrovia: 125 Cleveland Street, W1T 6QB

Distance: 3564.2 mls

Queen's Head & Artichoke

A tidy gastronomic operation on a quiet corner near Regent's Park. Most of the patrons at this light-flooded, converted Victorian pub come for the food, though the...

Marylebone: 30-32 Albany Street, NW1 4EA

Distance: 0.5 mls

Harrison

A swift refurbishment in January 2008 has accentuated this corner pub's status as a smart but unpretentious spot for a pint, a natter and a Sunday roast. In...

King's Cross: 28 Harrison Street, WC1H 8JF

Distance: 0.5 mls

Crazy Bear

This is the London outpost of Oxfordshire's upmarket hotel and bar Crazy Bear. A charming hostess leads you to a low-lit, Lilliputian basement bar of quiet chatter,...

Fitzrovia: 26-28 Whitfield Street, W1T 2RG

Distance: 0.5 mls

The Fellow

Drinks and supper after work

King's Cross: 24 York Way, N1 9AA

Distance: 0.5 mls

King & Queen

The King & Queen has barely been touched since the day Bob Dylan played his first London show here, and it still has a monthly folk night. Most come to this dark,...

Fitzrovia: 1 Foley Street, W1W 6DL

Distance: 0.5 mls

Queen's Larder

Set on the west side of Queen Square, this pub is well placed to bag custom from Great Ormond Street hospital and among the learners and lecturers of neighbouring Mary...

Bloomsbury: 1 Queen Square, WC1N 3AR

Distance: 0.5 mls

mybar

Tucked down a side street just off Tottenham Court Road, this hotel bar is coolly contemporary: white walls decorated with modern art of the not painted variety...

Bloomsbury: 11-13 Bayley Street, WC1B 3HD

Distance: 0.6 mls

Shochu Lounge

Beneath the contemporary Japanese restaurant Roka, slap-bang in media central, is this buzzy, evening-only basement whose approach is part 21st-century cosmopolitan,...

Fitzrovia: Basement, Roka, 37 Charlotte Street, W1T 1RR

Distance: 0.6 mls

Big Chill House

Beside the King's Cross Thameslink station, the N1 branch of the multi-tentacled and laudable Big Chill festival and music bar operation made an impressive debut in...

King's Cross: 257-259 Pentonville Road, N1 9NL

Distance: 0.6 mls

Scala

This dual-purpose establishment manages to tick the right music boxes as a club and as a live venue, and the variety of nights and gigs means it's bound to appeal to...

King's Cross: 275 Pentonville Road, N1 9NL

Distance: 0.6 mls

06 St Chad's Place

This weekday-only converted warehouse echoes the working environment with its bare bricks, low industrial lights and train rattle from the nearby Thameslink platforms;...

King's Cross: 6 St Chad's Place, WC1X 9HH

Distance: 0.6 mls

Smithy's

Rough, ready and perfect for the nine-to-five crowd, this solid, masculine venue is in one of the more unlikely locations for a quaint cobbled street: near King’s...

King's Cross: 15-17 Leeke Street, WC1X 9HY

Distance: 0.6 mls

Crown & Sceptre

Choice is king at this busy and well-run pub, so steer straight for the horseshoe bar and start making your mind up. The beer options span Timothy Taylor Landlord,...

Fitzrovia: 26-27 Foley Street, W1W 6DS

Distance: 0.6 mls

Newman Arms

The cabin-like Newman Arms has had the decorators in, but is still in touch with its history. A poster for the Italian version of Michael Powell's Peeping Tom, filmed...

Fitzrovia: 23 Rathbone Street, W1T 1NG

Distance: 0.6 mls

Green Man

Since the tableau on the back wall was painted, the floors have been stripped, the walls have been cream-washed and the lights have been undimmed. So far, so so, but...

Fitzrovia: 36 Riding House Street, W1W 7ES

Distance: 0.6 mls

KOKO

Famous for formerly being the Camden Palace, where music legends did legendary things, KOKO is opulent in an unashamedly old-fashioned way: high ceilings, claret and...

Camden: 1A Camden High Street, NW1 7JE

Distance: 0.6 mls

Bourne & Hollingsworth

Not so much a bar as a reproduction of your granny's sitting room, Bourne & Hollingsworth is not easy to find (walk down some steps at the junction of Percy and...

Fitzrovia: 28 Rathbone Place, W1T 1JF

Distance: 0.6 mls

Lamb

Founded in 1729, this Young's pub is the sort of place that makes you misty-eyed for a vanishing era. The Lamb found fame as a theatrical haunt when the A-list...

Bloomsbury: 94 Lamb's Conduit Street, WC1N 3LZ

Distance: 0.6 mls

King Charles I

The King Charles is frequented by loyal (mainly male) regulars who are pleased as punch to partake of great beers in such a conspiratorial setting. Thwaites Original,...

King's Cross: 55-57 Northdown Street, N1 9BL

Distance: 0.7 mls