Bars & Pubs

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: 0.1 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: 0.1 mls

Market Place

Still going strong, Market Place, just off Oxford Street, is packed with a loyal crowd who spill out on to the pedestrianised thoroughfare throughout the year, hungry...

Fitzrovia: 11-13 Market Place, W1W 8AH

Distance: 0.2 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: 0.2 mls

Lees Bag (branch of Davy's)

Marylebone: 4 Great Portland Street, W1W 8QJ

Distance: 0.2 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: 0.2 mls

Argyll Arms

The clientele at the impressive, historic, frosted-glass-and-mahogany Argyll Arms is almost as transitory as Oxford Circus, a stone's throw away. The pub was just as...

Soho: 18 Argyll Street, W1F 7TP

Distance: 0.2 mls

Chopper Lump (branch of Davy's)

Mayfair: 10C Hanover Square, W1S 1HN

Distance: 0.2 mls

Adam & Eve

Refurbished gastropub near Oxford Circus

Fitzrovia: 77a Wells Street, W1T 3QQ

Distance: 3563.5 mls

Aqua Spirit

High-end cocktail bar above Oxford Cirus

Oxford Street: Fifth Floor, 240 Regent St (entrance in Argyll St), W1B 3BR

Distance: 3563.5 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: 0.3 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: 0.3 mls

Coach Makers

Marylebone gastropub

Marylebone: 88 Marylebone Lane, W1U 2PY

Distance: 3563.5 mls

Golden Eagle

Every year, we like this pub a bit more. And every year, it seems a bit more agreeably out of place. Sure, a paint job has brightened it up, but the Golden Eagle...

Marylebone: 59 Marylebone Lane, W1U 2NY

Distance: 0.3 mls

Jetlag

Japanese-style international sports bar in Fitzrovia

Fitzrovia: 125 Cleveland Street, W1T 6QB

Distance: 3563.5 mls

Amuse Bouche

Affordable Champagne bar in Soho

Soho: 21-22 Poland Street, W1F 8QG

Distance: 0.3 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: 0.4 mls

Balls Brothers

Mayfair: 34 Brook Street, W1K 5DN

Distance: 0.4 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: 0.4 mls

Polka

With the dimming of Amber and the opening of Lucky Voice, it's all change on Poland Street. Polka, a Jamies chain venue, still attracts regulars to its intimate,...

Soho: 58-59 Poland Street, W1F 7NB

Distance: 0.4 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: 0.4 mls

Charlotte Street Blues

Blues bar in Fizrovia

Fitzrovia: 74 Charlotte St, W1T 4QH

Distance: 3563.5 mls

Ain't Nothin' But... The Blues Bar

The current revival in live music has done nothing but benefit the honest-to-goodness Ain't Nothin' But... The Blues bar. As basic as the similarly titled 78 by...

Soho: 20 Kingly Street, W1B 5PZ

Distance: 0.4 mls

Lucky Voice

This post-work novelty, a karaoke bar with private rooms, has proved a great success since opening in 2007. The drinks menu is equally Japanese-themed, with a dozen or...

Soho: 52 Poland Street, W1F 7LR

Distance: 0.4 mls

Moose Bar

I can't imagine anyone not liking this place. The latest venture from the Vince Power Music Group, opened late last year, is a rarity in the West End: cosy, reasonably...

Marylebone: The Moose, 31 Duke St, W1U 1LG

Distance: 0.4 mls

Trader Vic's

It's hard to know quite who this place is aimed at: it's too far from any of the major rail terminals or theatres for the bridge-and-tunnel crowd, and hardly somewhere...

Mayfair: London Hilton, 22 Park Lane, W1K 4BE

Distance: 0.4 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: 0.4 mls

Claridge's Bar

When we visited Claridge's on a Thursday night, they were standing three-deep at the bar - eager, it seems, to pay, as we did, £19 and £20 respectively for glasses...

Mayfair: Claridge's Hotel, 49 Brook Street, W1K 4HR

Distance: 0.4 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: 0.4 mls