Bars & Pubs

Swag & Tails

The Swag & Tails feels like a cosy village local in the Surrey Stockbroker Belt, such is its setting, deep in an exceptionally exclusive warren of mews houses. The...

Knightsbridge: 10-11 Fairholt Street, SW7 1EG

Distance: 0.5 mls

Mitre

This Victorian Grade II-listed local has an appealing conspiratorial air - the sort of place in which Regan might have drunk with a source in The Sweeney back in the...

Bayswater: 24 Craven Terrace, W2 3QH

Distance: 0.6 mls

Zuma

This capacious, Japan-themed bar-restaurant has an open-plan design that one suspects would make the place terribly sad and terribly dated if there were no one in it....

Knightsbridge: 5 Raphael Street, SW7 1DL

Distance: 0.6 mls

Victoria

Perched beside a mini-roundabout and posh Hyde Park mews, it's easy to see why the Victoria has drawn everyone from Dickens and Churchill to the Dracula Society. A...

Bayswater: 10A Strathern Place, W2 2NH

Distance: 0.6 mls

Mandarin Bar

This isn't the place to come to for a quiet drink. It's not that the music is too loud - though there are small-scale bands here nightly - and it's not that the...

Knightsbridge: Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park, 66 Knightsbridge, SW1X 7LA

Distance: 0.7 mls

Gyngleboy (branch of Davy's)

Paddington: 27 Spring Street, W2 1JA

Distance: 0.7 mls

Townhouse

You'll need to pick your night at this bijou cocktail bar tucked into a Georgian townhouse. When it's busy, it retains the exclusive yet accessible vibe that once...

Knightsbridge: 31 Beauchamp Place, SW3 1NU

Distance: 0.7 mls

Enterprise

With faded-chic furniture and windows draped in swathes of fabric, Enterprise works the French bistro look well. Most of the diminutive floor space is taken up with...

South Kensington: 35 Walton Street, SW3 2HU

Distance: 0.8 mls

Elephant & Castle

This corner pub, just off the main Kensington drag of Church Street, has a much lovelier, more clandestine feel than at first suggested by the two sides of opaque...

Kensington: 40 Holland Street, W8 4LT

Distance: 0.8 mls

Collection

This fashion-themed bar is an irony-free shrine to celebrity culture. Your journey to fantasy land commences with a trip down a Big Brother-style raised walkway, with...

South Kensington: 264 Brompton Road, SW3 2AS

Distance: 0.8 mls

Tini Bar

Classic cocktail lounge

Chelsea: 87-89 Walton Street, SW3 2HP

Distance: 0.8 mls

Nag's Head

It's unusual to see a landlord's name plastered on the front of a pub, but then there aren't many like Kevin Moran left in the trade. The Nag's Head reflects Moran's...

Knightsbridge: 53 Kinnerton Street, SW1X 8ED

Distance: 0.8 mls

Blue Bar

The crowd at this sleb-favoured hotel haunt is very see-and-be-seen, but it's nice to see the staff don't greet them with the complacency they probably deserve. This...

Knightsbridge: The Berkeley, Wilton Place, SW1X 7RL

Distance: 0.8 mls

Admiral Codrington

From the outside, the Cod appears to be a friendly old boozer, but inside the look has been cleaned up with cream walls, spot lighting and varnished pine furniture,...

South Kensington: 17 Mossop Street, SW3 2LY

Distance: 0.9 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: 0.9 mls

Churchill Arms

Simply put, this pub is brilliant - go. Proper cosy with pictures of the cigar-chomping chief, and drenched in the comfy glow of a roaring fire. Landlord Gerry...

Kensington: 119 Kensington Church Street, W8 7LN

Distance: 0.9 mls

Kensington Wine Rooms

Enjoyable wine bar with food

Notting Hill: 127-129 Kensington Church Street, W8 7LP

Distance: 0.9 mls

Notting Hill Arts Club

This is the kind of space that really shouldn't work in posh Notting Hill, but, thankfully, does. It's not fancy; in fact, it's quite battered around the edges, and...

Notting Hill: 21 Notting Hill Gate, W11 3JQ

Distance: 0.9 mls

Bart's

'Top-secret' speakeasy

Chelsea: past the lobby down the corridor at the left, Chelsea Cloisters, 87 Sloane Avenue, SW3 3DW

Distance: 0.9 mls

Imbiss

Austrian bar big on beer and food

Marble Arch: 14 Seymour Place, W1H 7NF

Distance: 0.9 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: 0.9 mls

Star Tavern

During the '50s and '60s, this mews pub is said to have drawn a mix of the very high and the very low: on the one hand, the moneyed Belgravians who've long dominated...

Belgravia: 6 Belgrave Mews West, SW1X 8HT

Distance: 1 mls

Royal Exchange

One of the best boozers within easy striking distance of Paddington, this is a cosy old school gaff with a dedication to fine beer and fine horses. By day, screens...

Bayswater: 26 Sale Place, W2 1PU

Distance: 1 mls

Tiroler Hut

Since 1967, Joseph and his lederhosened lads and dirndled lasses have been providing a high-camp version of Austrian hospitality at this basement restaurant. You could...

Bayswater: 27 Westbourne Grove, W2 4UA

Distance: 1 mls

Library

Surprisingly, those books are real. But the whole place is otherwise a fabulous illusion: despite its olde worlde appearance, the Lanesborough was a hospital until the...

Belgravia: Lanesborough Hotel, 1 Lanesborough Place, Hyde Park Corner, SW1X 7TA

Distance: 1 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: 1 mls