Bars & Pubs

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: 0.1 mls

Davy's at Regent's Place

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

Distance: 0.2 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: 0.3 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: 0.4 mls

Jetlag

Japanese-style international sports bar in Fitzrovia

Fitzrovia: 125 Cleveland Street, W1T 6QB

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

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: 0.5 mls

Charlotte Street Blues

Blues bar in Fizrovia

Fitzrovia: 74 Charlotte St, W1T 4QH

Distance: 0.5 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: 0.5 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

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

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

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: 0.6 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: 0.6 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: 0.6 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

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

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: 0.7 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: 0.7 mls

Dublin Castle

The Dublin Castle is square one for aspiring guitar bands. It's dim despite the skylights, and far from salubrious: upholstered couches of the 'economy train seat'...

Camden: 94 Parkway, NW1 7AN

Distance: 0.7 mls

Crown & Goose

Its popularity breeds contempt among some people, but the C&G remains an almost perfect local: far enough off the beaten track to elude the hordes and packed with...

Camden: 100 Arlington Road, NW1 7HP

Distance: 0.7 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: 0.7 mls

Nordic

The inventive management at this Scandinavia-themed bar may have had to ring a few changes of late (bringing in £4.95 lunch deals, for example), but Nordic remains...

Fitzrovia: 25 Newman Street, W1T 1PN

Distance: 0.7 mls

Long Bar

The Long Bar's early noughties glory days (the clientele is more civilian than celebrity in 2008) may be a faded memory, but there's still easy glamour for the taking....

Fitzrovia: The Sanderson, 50 Berners Street, W1T 3NG

Distance: 0.7 mls

Artesian

Breathtaking is the word for Artesian’s list of cocktails: order any three, add service, and you won’t get much change from £50. At least you’ll be drinking...

Marylebone: Langham Hotel, 1C Portland Place, W1B 1JA

Distance: 0.7 mls

Social

Nearly a decade young, the much-loved Social remains faithful to its mission to provide proper cocktails, decent global beers, fab jukebox tunes, cutting-edge DJs and...

Fitzrovia: 5 Little Portland Street, W1W 7JD

Distance: 0.7 mls

Annex 3

This is one of a trio of innovative enterprises run by Malaysian-born Hassan Abdullah, Frenchman Michel Lasserre and Swede Stefan Karison: the others, both in...

Marylebone: 6 Little Portland Street, W1W 7JE

Distance: 0.7 mls

The Fellow

Drinks and supper after work

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

Distance: 0.7 mls

Adam & Eve

Refurbished gastropub near Oxford Circus

Fitzrovia: 77a Wells Street, W1T 3QQ

Distance: 0.8 mls