Bars & Pubs

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: 0.4 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: 0.4 mls

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: 0.4 mls

Tini Bar

Classic cocktail lounge

Chelsea: 87-89 Walton Street, SW3 2HP

Distance: 3562.1 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

Drayton Arms

Scuffed leather sofas, faux-Gothic light fittings and dark burgundy walls lend an air of urban trendiness to this traditional corner pub. A correspondingly hip and...

South Kensington: 153 Old Brompton Road, SW5 0LJ

Distance: 0.5 mls

Bart's

'Top-secret' speakeasy

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

Distance: 0.5 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: 0.5 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: 0.5 mls

Zuma

This capacious, Japan-themed bar-restaurant has an open-plan design that one suspects would make the place terribly sad and terribly dated if there were no one in it....

Knightsbridge: 5 Raphael Street, SW7 1DL

Distance: 0.7 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: 0.7 mls

Apartment 195 (branch of Jamies)

Chelsea: 195 King's Road, SW3 5ED

Distance: 0.7 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: 0.7 mls

Cadogan Arms

Martin brothers' new pub

Chelsea: 298 King's Road, SW3 5UG

Distance: 3562.1 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

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: 0.8 mls

Elephant & Castle

This corner pub, just off the main Kensington drag of Church Street, has a much lovelier, more clandestine feel than at first suggested by the two sides of opaque...

Kensington: 40 Holland Street, W8 4LT

Distance: 0.8 mls

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: 0.8 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: 0.8 mls

The Pembroke

Grand gastropub down Old Brompton Road

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

Distance: 0.8 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

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: 0.9 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: 0.9 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: 0.9 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: 0.9 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: 1 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: 1 mls