Bars & Pubs

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: 0.3 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: 0.3 mls

Prince Albert

We tend to prefer the charming and lively ground floor bar of this useful spot to the formal dining room upstairs. Along with Black Sheep Bitter and Adnams Broadside...

Camden: 163 Royal College Street, NW1 0SG

Distance: 0.4 mls

BOD

Just off Camden Market’s main thoroughfare, this Spanish wine bar – full name Bodega de Tapas – has approaching 50 excellent Spanish wines, many of them chosen...

Camden: 30 Hawley Crescent, NW1 8NP

Distance: 0.4 mls

Fifty-Five

Cosmopolitan in more ways than one, Fifty-Five's glossy cocktail menu has endless variations on the classics, plus a few original creations like a pear and orange...

Camden: 31 Jamestown Road, NW1 7DB

Distance: 0.5 mls

Camden Arms

Bold and rather beautiful, the Camden Arms successfully melds a number of striking styles - from the doll's house corner boasting retro furniture and a spiralling iron...

Camden: 1 Randolph Street, NW1 0SS

Distance: 0.5 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: 0.5 mls

Lockside Lounge

In the self-conscious wackiness of Camden Market, a bar as artfully understated as the Lockside Lounge makes a pleasant change. Granted, there's little to engage the...

Camden: 75-89 West Yard, Camden Lock Place, NW1 8AF

Distance: 0.5 mls

Hawley Arms

Reborn 'sleb pub in Camden

Camden: 2 Castlehaven Road, NW1 8QU

Distance: 0.5 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: 0.5 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: 0.6 mls

Quinn's

Beyond Quinn’s garish yellow exterior, few square inches inside are spared the trappings of the traditional pub treatment, from shelves of pretty plates to walls...

Camden: 65 Kentish Town Road, NW1 8NY

Distance: 0.6 mls

Engineer

The Engineer rewards the well organised. Although there's always space at the bar for a swift pint (Bombardier and Hooky Bitter among the draught options), you assume...

Camden: 65 Gloucester Avenue, NW1 8JH

Distance: 0.6 mls

Gilgamesh

It's a struggle to describe Gilgamesh, a Babylonian theme bar and restaurant so screamingly over the top that it makes Kubla Khan's palace look like a bouncy castle....

Camden: Stables Market, Chalk Farm Road, NW1 8AH

Distance: 0.6 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: 0.7 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: 0.7 mls

Lock Tavern

It remains to be seen how the Lock Tavern will cope with being crowned king of cool during the rehabilitation of the fire-damaged Hawley Arms; it's already a hard...

Camden: 35 Chalk Farm Road, NW1 8AJ

Distance: 0.7 mls

Davy's at Regent's Place

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

Distance: 0.7 mls

Barfly

The Barfly chain does a damned fine job of supporting up-and-coming musical talent, and the Camden outpost is no exception. The battered upstairs-downstairs space is...

Camden: 49 Chalk Farm Road, NW1 8AN

Distance: 0.7 mls

The Fellow

Drinks and supper after work

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

Distance: 0.8 mls

Lansdowne

Pared down to perfection, this easygoing gastropub is a fine place in which to while away an afternoon. The massive windows let plenty of light into the bar, which...

Camden: 90 Gloucester Avenue, NW1 8HX

Distance: 0.8 mls

Bartok

An understated oasis of Zen-like calm named after the Hungarian composer, Bartok was founded on a fondness for classical music, but more often than not has DJs...

Camden: 78-79 Chalk Farm Road, NW1 8AR

Distance: 0.8 mls

EGG

A gorgeous, three-floored party palace that's big enough to lose yourself in, yet still manages to have a cosy atmosphere. You get comfy red leather banquettes and...

King's Cross: 200 York Way, N7 9AP

Distance: 0.8 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: 0.8 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: 0.8 mls

Driver

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

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

Distance: 3564.7 mls

The Driver

Mammoth gastropub-style restaurant and more

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

Distance: 3564.7 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: 0.9 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: 0.9 mls