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 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 mls

Lees Bag (branch of Davy's)

Marylebone: 4 Great Portland Street, W1W 8QJ

Distance: 0.1 mls

Adam & Eve

Refurbished gastropub near Oxford Circus

Fitzrovia: 77a Wells Street, W1T 3QQ

Distance: 0.1 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: 0.1 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: 0.1 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: 0.1 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: 0.2 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

Aqua Spirit

High-end cocktail bar above Oxford Cirus

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

Distance: 0.2 mls

Amuse Bouche

Affordable Champagne bar in Soho

Soho: 21-22 Poland Street, W1F 8QG

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

Chopper Lump (branch of Davy's)

Mayfair: 10C Hanover Square, W1S 1HN

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

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: 0.2 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

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: 0.3 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: 0.3 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: 0.3 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: 0.3 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: 0.3 mls

Charlotte Street Blues

Blues bar in Fizrovia

Fitzrovia: 74 Charlotte St, W1T 4QH

Distance: 0.3 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: 0.3 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: 0.3 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

Crazy Bear

This is the London outpost of Oxfordshire's upmarket hotel and bar Crazy Bear. A charming hostess leads you to a low-lit, Lilliputian basement bar of quiet chatter,...

Fitzrovia: 26-28 Whitfield Street, W1T 2RG

Distance: 0.3 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: 0.3 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: 0.3 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: 0.3 mls