Bars & Pubs

Anglesea Arms

The 180-year-old Anglesea was Dickens' and DH Lawrence's local (a photo on the wall shows the latter in Selwood Terrace on his wedding day in 1914) and where the Great...

South Kensington: 15 Selwood Terrace, SW7 3QG

Distance: 0.2 mls

Mokssh

Lovers of lip-tingling cocktails and tempting Indian tapas will enjoy the bright pinks and reds of the decor, which lights up a depressing stretch of Fulham Road, even...

Fulham: 222-224 Fulham Road, SW10 9NB

Distance: 0.4 mls

Cadogan Arms

Martin brothers' new pub

Chelsea: 298 King's Road, SW3 5UG

Distance: 3561.7 mls

The Pembroke

Grand gastropub down Old Brompton Road

Earl's Court: 261 Old Brompton Road, SW5 9JA

Distance: 0.5 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: 0.5 mls

Apartment 195 (branch of Jamies)

Chelsea: 195 King's Road, SW3 5ED

Distance: 0.5 mls

The Pig's Ear

This much celebrated Chelsea success story proves that it is possible to transform a local boozer into something more refined without making a total pig's ear of it....

Chelsea: 35 Old Church Street, SW3 5BS

Distance: 0.5 mls

King's Head

Hidden away down an alley a stone's throw from Earl's Court tube, this is a justly popular local. A sleek black-stone exterior hides an equally sleek interior: a...

Earl's Court: 17 Hogarth Place, SW5 0QT

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: 0.6 mls

Tini Bar

Classic cocktail lounge

Chelsea: 87-89 Walton Street, SW3 2HP

Distance: 3561.7 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: 0.6 mls

Cross Keys

The keys after which this historic Chelsea pub is named are those given to St Peter to gain entry to the Kingdom of Heaven, and with this in mind co-owner and designer...

Chelsea: 1 Lawrence Street, SW3 5NB

Distance: 0.6 mls

Chelsea Potter

You could be forgiven for thinking the Potter - an unreconstructed boozer complete with heavy red upholstery and dark wood furniture - had been teleported on to this...

Chelsea: 119 King's Road, SW3 4PL

Distance: 0.6 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: 0.7 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: 0.7 mls

Cooper's Arms

Only a short hop from the retail chaos of the King's Road, the Cooper's Arms is distant enough in character and clientele from many of the street's bars and pubs to be...

Chelsea: 87 Flood Street, SW3 5TB

Distance: 0.7 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: 0.8 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: 0.8 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: 0.8 mls

Chelsea Ram

Slightly off the beaten track, the Ram is an attractive, well-run locals' haunt rather than a destination venue. The familiar Young's gastropub style - light greens...

Chelsea: 32 Burnaby Street, SW10 0PL

Distance: 0.8 mls

Lots Road Pub & Dining Room

Set in a no-man's land near Chelsea Harbour, there's not much to look at from the large windows of this horseshoe-shaped corner pub - but the chefs at work behind the...

Fulham: 114 Lots Road, SW10 0RJ

Distance: 0.9 mls

Kensington Arms

Never judge a book by its cover. The pubby exterior of the Kensington Arms, replete with swinging pub sign, gives way to a space more like a café-bar inside, all pale...

Kensington: 41 Abingdon Road, W8 6AH

Distance: 0.9 mls

The Brunel

New pub

Battersea: 37 Battersea Bridge Rd, SW11 3BA

Distance: 3561.7 mls

Scarsdale

Just as French House (see p69) in Soho was General De Gaulle's haunt, this hostelry was designed to appeal to the officers of Napoleon Bonaparte. These days the...

Kensington: 23A Edwardes Square, W8 6HE

Distance: 0.9 mls

Westbridge

The Westbridge has an upmarket local boozer feel with plenty of personal touches, staff who aren't above whacking Dolly Parton on the sound system and some decent...

Battersea: 74-76 Battersea Bridge Road, SW11 3AG

Distance: 0.9 mls

Prince Albert

Brushed up boutique gastropub

Battersea: 85 Albert Bridge Road, SW11 4PF

Distance: 3561.7 mls