Bars & Pubs

The Fellow

Drinks and supper after work

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

Distance: 0.2 mls

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

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: 0.2 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: 0.2 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: 0.3 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

Ruby Lounge

The froth and sediment of King's Cross street life washes past this classy DJ and cocktail bar - opened long before the area's grime-to-gloss transformation began to...

King's Cross: 33 Caledonian Road, N1 9BU

Distance: 0.3 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: 0.3 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: 0.3 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: 0.3 mls

Driver

Refurbished King's Cross bar, restaurant and club - just opened

King's Cross: 2-4 Wharfdale Rd, N1 9RY

Distance: 3564.4 mls

The Driver

Mammoth gastropub-style restaurant and more

King's Cross: 2-4 Wharfdale Road, N1 9RY

Distance: 3564.4 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: 0.4 mls

Crown & Anchor

The Crown & Anchor is burrowed in the back streets behind Euston Square station on the corner of Drummond Street, a road renowned for its dazzling array of vegetarian...

Euston: 137 Drummond St, NW1 2HL

Distance: 0.5 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

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: 0.6 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: 0.6 mls

Compass

Islington gastropub with good food and drinks

Islington: 58 Penton St, N1 9PZ

Distance: 3564.4 mls

Perseverance

Occupying a large corner site near Great Ormond Street hospital, this is a popular spot for medics seeking to soothe the stresses of their jobs. A recent refurb put...

Bloomsbury: 63 Lamb's Conduit Street, WC1N 3NB

Distance: 0.7 mls

Vats Wine Bar & Restaurant

A proper, old-fashioned wine bar, Vats is a regular lunchtime haunt for Lincoln’s Inn barristers and various other characters in the neighbourhood. The backroom...

Bloomsbury: 51 Lamb’s Conduit Street, WC1N 3NB

Distance: 0.7 mls

Filthy McNasty's

You can tell a lot about a bar by its toilet graffiti. To judge from the misspelt poetry and smut scrawled on these walls, Filthy McNasty's is still Islington's most...

Islington: 68 Amwell Street, EC1R 1UU

Distance: 0.7 mls

Duke

Like the Duke himself (of York that is), the one who marched his men to the top of the hill only to march them down again, this place has its quirks. Seating in the...

Bloomsbury: 7 Roger Street, WC1N 2PB

Distance: 0.7 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: 0.7 mls

Lexington

Bourbon whiskey lounge and speakeasy

Islington: 96 Pentonville Rd, N1 9HS

Distance: 0.7 mls

Easton

A white indoor paint job in January 2008 has sharpened the contrast with the red banquettes, creating a neat decorative backdrop at this solid-quality gastropub....

Clerkenwell: 22 Easton Street, WC1X 0DS

Distance: 0.7 mls

Davy's at Regent's Place

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

Distance: 0.7 mls

Al's Café Bar

Part bar, part caff, part late-night boozing magnet: everyone round here knows Al's. It's a breakfast-to-bedtime operation, serving a hotchpotch of punters with...

Clerkenwell: 11-13 Exmouth Market, EC1R 4QD

Distance: 0.8 mls

Apple Tree

This smart gastropub and post-work glughouse has a superior feel about it, thanks to high ceilings, tall house plants and a quality drinks list. Draught beers include...

Clerkenwell: 45 Mount Pleasant, WC1X 0AE

Distance: 0.8 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: 0.8 mls