Bars & Pubs

Audley

This Mayfair institution has a lot going for it: a splendid, high-ceilinged Victorian interior with the requisite panelling and chandeliers, cask ales (Young's, London...

Mayfair: 41-43 Mount Street, W1K 2RX

Distance: 0.2 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: 0.2 mls

Coburg Bar

Luxurious, elegant and discreet, this is everything a good hotel bar should be. From the criminally comfortable, grey velvet, wing-backed chairs and chic, black glass...

Mayfair: The Connaught, Carlos Place, W1K 2AL

Distance: 0.2 mls

Connaught Bar

Latest glam bar in The Connaught

Mayfair: 16 Carlos Place, W1K 2AL

Distance: 0.2 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: 0.2 mls

Balls Brothers

Mayfair: 34 Brook Street, W1K 5DN

Distance: 0.3 mls

The Punch Bowl

Guy Ritchie's pub in Mayfair

Mayfair: 41 Farm St, W1J 5RP

Distance: 0.3 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: 0.3 mls

Coach Makers

Marylebone gastropub

Marylebone: 88 Marylebone Lane, W1U 2PY

Distance: 0.4 mls

The Bar at The Dorchester

To crown its recent refurbishment programme, The Dorchester has put the redesign of its landmark bar in the hands of Thierry Despont, a New York-based French architect...

Mayfair: 53 Park Lane, W1K 1QA

Distance: 0.4 mls

Imbiss

Austrian bar big on beer and food

Marble Arch: 14 Seymour Place, W1H 7NF

Distance: 0.4 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: 0.4 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: 0.4 mls

Mason's Arms

One of just three London pubs operated by the Dorset brewery Hall & Woodhouse, the Mason's Arms isn't one for showing off. There's no stripped pine and no farmer's...

Marylebone: 51 Upper Berkeley Street, W1H 7QW

Distance: 0.4 mls

Only Running Footman

There's something gracious about many Mayfair pubs: disinclined to lay on satellite sport and all-night happy hours, the best retain an old-world charm. This is one...

Mayfair: 5 Charles Street, W1J 5DF

Distance: 0.4 mls

Salt Whisky Bar & Dining Room

If you can find a better selection of whisky anywhere, the chances are you're seeing double, such is the overwhelming array of malts, bourbons and blends here....

Edgware Road: 82 Seymour Street, W2 2JE

Distance: 0.4 mls

Chopper Lump (branch of Davy's)

Mayfair: 10C Hanover Square, W1S 1HN

Distance: 0.4 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: 0.5 mls

Galvin at Windows

There's no more remarkable site for a bar in London than Windows: 28 floors up, at the top of the Park Lane Hilton, with an extraordinary panoramic view of the...

Mayfair: 28th floor, London Hilton, 22 Park Lane, W1K 1BE

Distance: 0.5 mls

Donovan Bar

To get to the Donovan, you have to pass through an anonymous, standard-issue hotel bar, with acres of grey carpet and a pianist tinkling away in a corner. But don't...

Mayfair: Brown's Hotel, 33-34 Albemarle Street, W1S 4BP

Distance: 0.5 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: 0.5 mls

Mulligan's of Mayfair (branch of Balls Brothers)

Mayfair: 14 Cork Street, W1S 3NS

Distance: 0.5 mls

Aqua Spirit

High-end cocktail bar above Oxford Cirus

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

Distance: 0.5 mls

Beehive

As Gerry Rafferty once sang of Baker Street, it's got 'So many people, but it's got no soul' and, well, he wasn't wrong. Head west off it and you'll come across this...

Marylebone: 126 Crawford St, W1U 6BF

Distance: 0.6 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: 0.6 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: 0.6 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: 0.6 mls

Duke of Wellington

Since its makeover by the owners of the Brown Dog in Barnes, the Duke has attracted a moneyed clientele happy to splash out £30 on a decent Pouilly-Fumé or £55 on a...

Marylebone: 94A Crawford Street, W1H 2HQ

Distance: 0.6 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: 0.6 mls