Bars & Pubs

Mandarin Bar

This isn't the place to come to for a quiet drink. It's not that the music is too loud - though there are small-scale bands here nightly - and it's not that the...

Knightsbridge: Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park, 66 Knightsbridge, SW1X 7LA

Distance: 0.1 mls

Nag's Head

It's unusual to see a landlord's name plastered on the front of a pub, but then there aren't many like Kevin Moran left in the trade. The Nag's Head reflects Moran's...

Knightsbridge: 53 Kinnerton Street, SW1X 8ED

Distance: 0.2 mls

Blue Bar

The crowd at this sleb-favoured hotel haunt is very see-and-be-seen, but it's nice to see the staff don't greet them with the complacency they probably deserve. This...

Knightsbridge: The Berkeley, Wilton Place, SW1X 7RL

Distance: 0.3 mls

Swag & Tails

The Swag & Tails feels like a cosy village local in the Surrey Stockbroker Belt, such is its setting, deep in an exceptionally exclusive warren of mews houses. The...

Knightsbridge: 10-11 Fairholt Street, SW7 1EG

Distance: 0.3 mls

Townhouse

You'll need to pick your night at this bijou cocktail bar tucked into a Georgian townhouse. When it's busy, it retains the exclusive yet accessible vibe that once...

Knightsbridge: 31 Beauchamp Place, SW3 1NU

Distance: 0.3 mls

Star Tavern

During the '50s and '60s, this mews pub is said to have drawn a mix of the very high and the very low: on the one hand, the moneyed Belgravians who've long dominated...

Belgravia: 6 Belgrave Mews West, SW1X 8HT

Distance: 0.4 mls

Library

Surprisingly, those books are real. But the whole place is otherwise a fabulous illusion: despite its olde worlde appearance, the Lanesborough was a hospital until the...

Belgravia: Lanesborough Hotel, 1 Lanesborough Place, Hyde Park Corner, SW1X 7TA

Distance: 0.4 mls

Enterprise

With faded-chic furniture and windows draped in swathes of fabric, Enterprise works the French bistro look well. Most of the diminutive floor space is taken up with...

South Kensington: 35 Walton Street, SW3 2HU

Distance: 0.5 mls

Admiral Codrington

From the outside, the Cod appears to be a friendly old boozer, but inside the look has been cleaned up with cream walls, spot lighting and varnished pine furniture,...

South Kensington: 17 Mossop Street, SW3 2LY

Distance: 0.6 mls

Tini Bar

Classic cocktail lounge

Chelsea: 87-89 Walton Street, SW3 2HP

Distance: 0.6 mls

The Bar at The Dorchester

To crown its recent refurbishment programme, The Dorchester has put the redesign of its landmark bar in the hands of Thierry Despont, a New York-based French architect...

Mayfair: 53 Park Lane, W1K 1QA

Distance: 0.6 mls

Collection

This fashion-themed bar is an irony-free shrine to celebrity culture. Your journey to fantasy land commences with a trip down a Big Brother-style raised walkway, with...

South Kensington: 264 Brompton Road, SW3 2AS

Distance: 0.6 mls

Galvin at Windows

There's no more remarkable site for a bar in London than Windows: 28 floors up, at the top of the Park Lane Hilton, with an extraordinary panoramic view of the...

Mayfair: 28th floor, London Hilton, 22 Park Lane, W1K 1BE

Distance: 0.6 mls

Bart's

'Top-secret' speakeasy

Chelsea: past the lobby down the corridor at the left, Chelsea Cloisters, 87 Sloane Avenue, SW3 3DW

Distance: 0.7 mls

Plumbers Arms

Good ales attract a slew of regulars to this unassuming pub in a quiet Victoria street. Quiet, that is, except for one night in 1974 when Lady Lucan burst in to tell...

Victoria: 14 Lower Belgrave Street, SW1W 0LN

Distance: 0.7 mls

Audley

This Mayfair institution has a lot going for it: a splendid, high-ceilinged Victorian interior with the requisite panelling and chandeliers, cask ales (Young's, London...

Mayfair: 41-43 Mount Street, W1K 2RX

Distance: 0.7 mls

Thomas Cubitt

Two years after its opening, this upmarket brasserie still fills up every mealtime with a civilised Belgravia clientele. They're happy to venture in the direction of...

Belgravia: 44 Elizabeth Street, SW1W 9PA

Distance: 0.7 mls

190 Queensgate

Located just around the corner from the Royal Albert Hall, this annexe of the Gore Hotel draws an eclectic mix of concert-goers, businessmen and local Imperial College...

South Kensington: The Gore Hotel, 190 Queensgate, SW7 5EX

Distance: 0.7 mls

The Punch Bowl

Guy Ritchie's pub in Mayfair

Mayfair: 41 Farm St, W1J 5RP

Distance: 0.8 mls

Ebury Wine Bar & Restaurant

Not to be confused with the Ebury gastropub in nearby Pimlico, this slick, continental-style place has charms aplenty. Chief among these is the well-made dishes – a...

Victoria: 139 Ebury Street, SW1W 9QU

Distance: 0.8 mls

Boisdale

From the labyrinthine variety of bar and restaurant spaces to the overstated tartan accents, there's something faintly preposterous about this entire operation. Rest...

Victoria: 13 Eccleston Street, SW1W 9LX

Distance: 0.8 mls

Coburg Bar

Luxurious, elegant and discreet, this is everything a good hotel bar should be. From the criminally comfortable, grey velvet, wing-backed chairs and chic, black glass...

Mayfair: The Connaught, Carlos Place, W1K 2AL

Distance: 0.8 mls

Connaught Bar

Latest glam bar in The Connaught

Mayfair: 16 Carlos Place, W1K 2AL

Distance: 0.8 mls

Fox & Hounds

This tiny piece of 'Little England' started life as one of the many front room pubs that flourished in the 19th century. Originally beer was served by the landlady...

Chelsea: 29 Passmore Street, SW1W 8HR

Distance: 0.8 mls

Balls Brothers

Victoria: 50 Buckingham Palace Road, SW1W 0RN

Distance: 0.8 mls

Only Running Footman

There's something gracious about many Mayfair pubs: disinclined to lay on satellite sport and all-night happy hours, the best retain an old-world charm. This is one...

Mayfair: 5 Charles Street, W1J 5DF

Distance: 0.9 mls

bbar

The choice at this South African bar is staggering. Some 75 cocktails, more than 100 wines (a third of which are available by the glass) and 20 beers (nearly all...

Victoria: 43 Buckingham Palace Road, SW1W 0PP

Distance: 0.9 mls

Pacha

There's been talk of refurbishing this club by the Victoria bus depot, but nothing looks likely to happen until the new Pacha Terrace (a five-floored members' club...

Victoria: Terminus Place, SW1E 5NE

Distance: 0.9 mls

Phoenix

Set in a quiet residential street off the King's Road, the Phoenix aspires to be a locals' hangout rather than a trendy Chelsea watering hole. The subsequent 'homely'...

Chelsea: 23 Smith Street, SW3 4EE

Distance: 0.9 mls