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When a boozer boasts logoed T-shirts and its own history book, you might be wary; but this venerable corner pub opposite the British Museum pulls in its fair share of...
Bloomsbury: 49 Great Russell Street, WC1B 3BA
Distance: 0 mls
Just off the bustle and tat of Shaftesbury Avenue, this airy cocoon - sister venture to the End - claims to have been London's original DJ bar, and it's still grooving...
Bloomsbury: 18 West Central Street, WC1A 1JJ
Distance: 0.1 mls
Its ghastly name sounds like an old-fashioned shop, though this is actually part of the Davy's wine chain. As a bar, Truckles is something of a one-trick pony - think...
Bloomsbury: Off Bury Place, WC1A 2JR
Distance: 0.1 mls
The people who brought you the now defunct Hedges & Butler have magicked this former underground New Oxford Street car park into a Victorian high street film set....
Bloomsbury: 55 New Oxford Street, WC1A 1BS
Distance: 0.1 mls
This place is absolutely teeming with history. Nineteenth-century London's most dextrous craftsmen shaped this boozer to the tune of £5,000 which, back then, got you...
Holborn: 208-209 High Holborn, WC1V 7BW
Distance: 0.2 mls
Back in the day - the late 1980s to be precise - Freud was the hottest ticket in town. Below the shop of the same name, this hidden cellar bar (reached via a metal...
Covent Garden: 198 Shaftesbury Avenue, WC2H 8JL
Distance: 0.2 mls
Of Bloomsbury's two subterranean bowling dens, this is the one with aspirations. Walk past the lanes and smart, diner-style seating, and you'll find yourself in a...
Bloomsbury: Victoria House, Bloomsbury Place, WC1B 4DA
Distance: 0.2 mls
Quirky, atmospheric and nicely unpretentious, the Cross Keys begs one question. What the hell is it doing in tourist-mobbed Covent Garden? Catering to ordinary folk...
Covent Garden: 31 Endell Street, WC2H 9EB
Distance: 0.2 mls
Under the row of flags on the stern, stylish Covent Garden Hotel, this bar-restaurant is one to impress with. Join the crowd of well-to-do creative types for...
Covent Garden: Covent Garden Hotel, 10 Monmouth Street, WC2H 9LF
Distance: 0.2 mls
Brightly logoed and Benelux-themed, the smart Lowlander fills its expansive, long-tabled space easily, thanks to an impressive range of draught and bottled beer. The...
Covent Garden: 36 Drury Lane, WC2B 5RR
Distance: 0.2 mls
Subterranean Detroit's cave-like alcoves combine a sense of below-radar cool with the uneasy feeling you've stumbled on a Flintstones theme park; it's not for...
Covent Garden: 35 Earlham Street, WC2H 9LD
Distance: 0.3 mls
A neat, modern space that mutates from Polish café during the day into something resembling a crowded student bar at night. The likes of pierogis, bigos, sandwiches,...
Holborn: 11 Little Turnstile, WC1V 7DX
Distance: 0.3 mls
This cavernous, bare-brick basement bar caters to an up-for-it crowd eager for fun and eye contact. Nine-to-fivers mingle around the main Geneva Bar before breaking...
Covent Garden: 5 Langley Street, WC2H 9JA
Distance: 0.3 mls
One courses and glass of wine: £9.95At first glance, this gay café-bar seems a pretty standard joint (leather banquettes, big windows, mirrors); however, its Covent Garden location makes a fine break...
Covent Garden: 32-34 Monmouth Street, WC2H 9HA
Distance: 0.3 mls
Set on the west side of Queen Square, this pub is well placed to bag custom from Great Ormond Street hospital and among the learners and lecturers of neighbouring Mary...
Bloomsbury: 1 Queen Square, WC1N 3AR
Distance: 0.3 mls
Tapas and flamenco, vino tinto and cortado coffees: you could never complain that Nueva Costa Dorada isn't authentic. You could, however, note that this cavernous...
Fitzrovia: 47-55 Hanway Street, W1T 1UX
Distance: 0.3 mls
As French as its name and namesake restaurant upstairs, the cosy C des A is more basement bar than café, but stylish for all that. A buzzy bunch of shoppers and...
Covent Garden: 11-14 Hanover Place, WC2E 9JP
Distance: 0.3 mls
2 course fixed price menu (Early Dinner) for £14.50Some still miss the former incarnation of this Covent Garden bar, with wires and exposed heating pipes aplenty. Now it’s more like a hotel venue, with red alcove...
Covent Garden: 11-14 Hanover Place, WC2E 9JP
Distance: 0.3 mls
Tucked down a side street just off Tottenham Court Road, this hotel bar is coolly contemporary: white walls decorated with modern art of the not painted variety...
Bloomsbury: 11-13 Bayley Street, WC1B 3HD
Distance: 0.3 mls
There's a very welcoming atmosphere here, unusually so for a cocktail bar in an upmarket hotel. The high-ceiling room is beautiful, but the fittings and furniture,...
Holborn: Renaissance Chancery Court Hotel, 252 High Holborn, WC1V 7EN
Distance: 0.3 mls
Kitsch, louche and very late-night, the Phoenix attracts a regular crowd of debauched luvvies and miscreants to its basement den. Decked out in framed handbills,...
Soho: 1 Phoenix Street, WC2H 0DT
Distance: 0.3 mls
The signature bar of the upmarket urban hotel One Aldwych is known for the range and quality of its cocktails and for a sculpture of a bemused rower. From one of the...
Strand: One Aldwych, WC2
Distance: 0.3 mls
Few gay venues in Soho attract quite as diverse a crowd as the Green Carnation. Downstairs is your standard Soho gay bar, complete with house music and beautiful...
Soho: 5 Greek Street, W1D 4DD
Distance: 0.3 mls
Its mock Tudor frontage spanning the entrance to Manette Street, the traditional Pillars is a popular Soho pit stop for tourists, but is a quality destination...
Soho: 7 Greek Street, W1D 4DF
Distance: 0.3 mls
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: 0.3 mls
As the painstakingly conceived sections of its encyclopedic drinks menu suggest, LAB is streets ahead, high and mighty, as well as being short and sexy. Certainly...
Soho: 12 Old Compton Street, W1D 4TQ
Distance: 0.3 mls
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
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: 0.3 mls
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: 0.4 mls
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