Bars & Pubs

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: 0.1 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: 0.1 mls

Adam & Eve

Refurbished gastropub near Oxford Circus

Fitzrovia: 77a Wells Street, W1T 3QQ

Distance: 3563.4 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: 0.1 mls

Lees Bag (branch of Davy's)

Marylebone: 4 Great Portland Street, W1W 8QJ

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: 0.1 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: 0.1 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: 0.2 mls

Aqua Spirit

High-end cocktail bar above Oxford Cirus

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

Distance: 3563.4 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

Black Gardenia

When this tiny basement club opened in 2007, owner Zimon spent about a tenner on decoration, wrote 'no jeans, no cunts' on his flyers, and opened the doors. Attracting...

Soho: 93 Dean Street, W1D 3SZ

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: 0.2 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

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: 0.2 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

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: 0.2 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

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

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

Toucan

This two-floor Irish hostelry off Soho Square hasn't always been Guinness-themed. Amid the striking vintage publicity material (seals, toucans and suchlike) for stout,...

Soho: 19 Carlisle Street, W1D 3BY

Distance: 0.2 mls

Floridita

For a proper night out in the heart of Soho, take your beloved to Floridita, named after the famous Hemingway haunt in Havana: this glitzy but tasteful basement...

Soho: 100 Wardour Street, W1F 0TN

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

Punk

When regulars include Kate Moss, Lily Allen and - when he's in town - Mark Ronson, it seems there's little this basement space can do wrong. It accommodates 270 at a...

Soho: 14 Soho Street, W1D 3DN

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

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: 0.2 mls

The Edge

Don't be misled by the name: gay bar the Edge is anything but edgy. The buzzing ground-floor café is a muted mix of beige and grey with an overstuffed vase of flowers...

Soho: 11 Soho Square, W1D 3QE

Distance: 0.2 mls

Akbar

Downstairs from the Red Fort Indian restaurant of some renown, the equally superior Akbar basement cocktail lounge also sources its ingredients from far and wide. The...

Soho: 77 Dean Street, W1D 3SH

Distance: 0.2 mls

Eagle Bar Diner

Part diner, part bar, but as adept at mixing cocktails as griddling burgers, the Eagle brings American standards of service and sustenance to Oxford Street shoppers...

Fitzrovia: 3-5 Rathbone Place, W1T 1HJ

Distance: 0.2 mls

Bradley's Spanish Bar

Is it the jukebox? Is it the tatty velvet furniture and wobbly stools? Is it just habit? Whatever the reason, people still love Bradley's, a cornucopia of tack at the...

Fitzrovia: 42-44 Hanway Street, W1T 1UT

Distance: 0.2 mls