Bars & Pubs

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: 0.1 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: 0.1 mls

Lees Bag (branch of Davy's)

Marylebone: 4 Great Portland Street, W1W 8QJ

Distance: 0.1 mls

Chopper Lump (branch of Davy's)

Mayfair: 10C Hanover Square, W1S 1HN

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

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: 0.2 mls

Shampers

While many of the kids around Carnaby Street opt for the Puma shoes shop and assorted style bars, those with more experience drop into Shampers. Pinstripe suits and...

Soho: 4 Kingly Street, W1B 5PE

Distance: 0.2 mls

Two Floors

Sparse, laid-back and bohemian, the two-floor Two Floors is understated and quite wonderful. Beers here are mainly bottled (Modelo Especial, Red Stripe, Brooklyn),...

Soho: 3 Kingly Street, W1B 5PD

Distance: 0.2 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: 0.2 mls

Amuse Bouche

Affordable Champagne bar in Soho

Soho: 21-22 Poland Street, W1F 8QG

Distance: 0.2 mls

Old Coffee House

Slap in Soho bar central, this conspiratorially dark drinking den seems to have changed little since it first offered the eponymous coffee and idle chatter in the 18th...

Soho: 49 Beak Street, W1F 9SF

Distance: 0.2 mls

Milk & Honey

The house rules here include 'No name-dropping, no star fucking. No hooting, hollering, shouting or other loud behaviour'. This admirable restraint continues in the...

Soho: 61 Poland Street, W1F 7NU

Distance: 0.2 mls

Polo Bar

Polo eschews the bland international style of so many hotel bars in favour of gorgeous art deco fittings that are just the right side of opulent; that's one reason...

Mayfair: Westbury Hotel, New Bond Street, W1S 2YF

Distance: 0.2 mls

Absolut IceBar/BelowZero

IceBar, a collaboration between Absolut and the designers at Ice Hotel, is probably not a place at which to settle in for a long night's drinking: that's because the...

Mayfair: 29-33 Heddon Street, W1B 4BN

Distance: 0.2 mls

Alphabet

At the forefront of London's bar revolution in the late 1990s, Alphabet still does little wrong; but it could, perhaps, do with a little contemporary competition....

Soho: 61-63 Beak Street, W1F 9SS

Distance: 0.2 mls

Mô Tea Room

A small corner of the West End that is forever Marrakech. That, at least, is the idea, though the casbah chic (or is it kitsch?) here may be a little rich for some...

Mayfair: 25 Heddon Street, W1B 4BH

Distance: 0.2 mls

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: 0.2 mls

Sun & Thirteen Cantons

Built way back in 1882, with links to Soho's Swiss heritage (hence the name - there's still a Helvetic map on the wall), this Soho boozer has opted to attract a...

Soho: 21 Great Pulteney Street, W1F 9NG

Distance: 0.2 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: 0.2 mls

Adam & Eve

Refurbished gastropub near Oxford Circus

Fitzrovia: 77a Wells Street, W1T 3QQ

Distance: 0.2 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: 0.2 mls

Endurance

Berwick Street's finest, the Endurance attracts the vinyl junkies, market traders and sparky Soho street life that keep this locality lively and totally authentic....

Soho: 90 Berwick Street, W1F 0QB

Distance: 0.3 mls

Player

A drinks menu unchanged since 2005 and several head bartenders since the days of Dick Bradsell in 1999, of late the Player hasn't been trying too hard to keep a buzz...

Soho: 8 Broadwick Street, W1F 8HN

Distance: 0.3 mls

Balls Brothers

Mayfair: 34 Brook Street, W1K 5DN

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

Artesian

Breathtaking is the word for Artesian’s list of cocktails: order any three, add service, and you won’t get much change from £50. At least you’ll be drinking...

Marylebone: Langham Hotel, 1C Portland Place, W1B 1JA

Distance: 0.3 mls

Guinea

Tucked away in an attractive West End mews, the Guinea is a proper boozer - and there aren't many of those in this part of town. The largely besuited punters sup from...

Mayfair: 30 Bruton Place, W1J 6NL

Distance: 0.3 mls

Mulligan's of Mayfair (branch of Balls Brothers)

Mayfair: 14 Cork Street, W1S 3NS

Distance: 0.3 mls

Mark's Bar

Downstairs bar in Mark Hix's Soho restaurant

Soho: 66-70 Brewer Street, W1F 9UP

Distance: 0.3 mls