Bars & Pubs

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: 0.4 mls

190 Queensgate

Located just around the corner from the Royal Albert Hall, this annexe of the Gore Hotel draws an eclectic mix of concert-goers, businessmen and local Imperial College...

South Kensington: The Gore Hotel, 190 Queensgate, SW7 5EX

Distance: 0.4 mls

Kensington Wine Rooms

Enjoyable wine bar with food

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

Distance: 3562.5 mls

Kensington Arms

Never judge a book by its cover. The pubby exterior of the Kensington Arms, replete with swinging pub sign, gives way to a space more like a café-bar inside, all pale...

Kensington: 41 Abingdon Road, W8 6AH

Distance: 0.5 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: 0.5 mls

Windsor Castle

The Windsor Castle is so cutely historic, with its set of small interconnected rooms, wood panelling and open fires, that it looks more like a film set than the...

Kensington: 114 Campden Hill Road, W8 7AR

Distance: 0.5 mls

Scarsdale

Just as French House (see p69) in Soho was General De Gaulle's haunt, this hostelry was designed to appeal to the officers of Napoleon Bonaparte. These days the...

Kensington: 23A Edwardes Square, W8 6HE

Distance: 0.6 mls

King's Head

Hidden away down an alley a stone's throw from Earl's Court tube, this is a justly popular local. A sleek black-stone exterior hides an equally sleek interior: a...

Earl's Court: 17 Hogarth Place, SW5 0QT

Distance: 0.7 mls

Ladbroke Arms

The police station over the road once provided much of the Ladbroke’s clientele. Now this gastropub is better known for its floral displays (the beer garden at the...

Holland Park: 54 Ladbroke Road, W11 3NW

Distance: 0.8 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: 0.8 mls

Warwick Arms

If location, location, location was a landlords' mantra rather than an estate agents', the Warwick would be in deep trouble - stuck on a god-awful stretch of road...

Earl's Court: 160 Warwick Road, W14 8PS

Distance: 0.8 mls

Westbourne House

A big, handsome pub (formerly the Shakespeare) has swapped its nicotine stains and pint glasses for something altogether more glitzy. Westbourne House has enough shiny...

Westbourne Grove: 65 Westbourne Grove, W2 4UJ

Distance: 0.9 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: 0.9 mls

Elbow Room

Part of the chain of bar-cum-pool halls, this is a well-designed and welcoming spot. The front third of the long L-shaped space is given over to a bar boasting a mix...

Westbourne Grove: 103 Westbourne Grove, W2 4UW

Distance: 0.9 mls

Drayton Arms

Scuffed leather sofas, faux-Gothic light fittings and dark burgundy walls lend an air of urban trendiness to this traditional corner pub. A correspondingly hip and...

South Kensington: 153 Old Brompton Road, SW5 0LJ

Distance: 0.9 mls

Harlem

There's a great bar hidden away in this corner hangout (part of the Match group) opposite the Elbow Room. The space is fine - dark wood and ornate ceiling, a pretty...

Bayswater: 78 Westbourne Grove, W2 5RT

Distance: 0.9 mls

The Commander

Wine bar, grill and seafood restaurant

Westbourne Grove: 47 Hereford Road, W2 5AH

Distance: 0.9 mls

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: 0.9 mls

Earl of Lonsdale

Opinion among regulars was divided when this large Sam Smith's pub in the heart of Portobello underwent a complete refurbishment around three years ago. Ironically,...

Notting Hill: 277-281 Westbourne Grove, W11 2QA

Distance: 1 mls

Negozio Classica

Negozio Classica is fashioned after an Italian enoteca. Therefore you can buy wine to take away or drink-in (there’s a corkage charge of £6.50 per bottle), and...

Westbourne Grove: 283 Westbourne Grove, W11 2QA

Distance: 1 mls

Lonsdale

The beautifully over-designed main lounge (there are two more bars on different floors) is in 1970s sci-funk style, with brass 'bubble' walls and red leather seating....

Westbourne Grove: 44-48 Lonsdale Road, W11 2DE

Distance: 1 mls

Gyngleboy (branch of Davy's)

Paddington: 27 Spring Street, W2 1JA

Distance: 1 mls

Anglesea Arms

The 180-year-old Anglesea was Dickens' and DH Lawrence's local (a photo on the wall shows the latter in Selwood Terrace on his wedding day in 1914) and where the Great...

South Kensington: 15 Selwood Terrace, SW7 3QG

Distance: 1 mls

The Pembroke

Grand gastropub down Old Brompton Road

Earl's Court: 261 Old Brompton Road, SW5 9JA

Distance: 1 mls

Prince Bonaparte

This large, handsome pub went through a bad period when service left a lot to be desired. Those days seem to be over and on a recent Sunday lunchtime visit staff were...

Westbourne Grove: 80 Chepstow Road, W2 5BE

Distance: 1 mls