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A cosy, tucked-away place for those in-the-know, this basement bar is one of the few independent establishments left around Leicester Square. A Mumm Champagne window...
Leicester Square: 44-46 Cranbourn Street, WC2H 7AN
Distance: 0.1 mls
Benelux beers are ubiquitous these days, but there was a time when few venues purveyed pilsners and lagers from the Low Countries. This ornate-fronted hostelry on the...
Leicester Square: 11 Macclesfield Street, W1D 5BW
Distance: 0.1 mls
One of several in central London, this particular Blue Posts in the heart of Soho's gay quarter is professionally run and amiably staffed. Guests, gay and straight,...
Leicester Square: 28 Rupert Street, W1D 6DJ
Distance: 0.1 mls
Through the door ('Poussez') of this venerable Gallic establishment have passed many titanic drinkers of the pre- and post-war era, the Bacons and the Behans, the...
Soho: 49 Dean Street, W1D 5BG
Distance: 0.1 mls
There's now a cashpoint by the door and a rainbow of WKDs in the fridge, but glimpses of modernity are still largely absent from this Victorian landmark. All cut-glass...
Leicester Square: 90 St Martin's Lane, WC2N 4AP
Distance: 0.1 mls
Bar Rumba says it's a fave with Londoners, and we believe it. Open since 1993 but still packing them in, this West End basement venue puts on some of the most esteemed...
Piccadilly: 36 Shaftesbury Avenue, W1D 7ER
Distance: 0.1 mls
So steeped in its own legend that it has the word 'Norman's' above its own pub sign, the Coach is nonetheless moving away from the era of the famously rude landlord...
Soho: 29 Greek Street, W1D 5DH
Distance: 0.1 mls
The landmark Spice, towering beside a mess of building work that will eventually transform Cambridge Circus, has laudably reconnected with its past to provide a...
Soho: 37-39 Romilly Street, W1D 5AN
Distance: 0.1 mls
In Soho's trendier gay bars, cruising takes second place to posing. Not so at the Admiral Duncan, which still flies the rainbow flag of unashamed Friday night fun....
Soho: 54 Old Compton Street, W1D 4UB
Distance: 0.1 mls
Soho's original S&M (stand-and-model) bar, Rupert Street attracts pretty boys and their well-groomed admirers. Calling to mind Queer as Folk, the 1990s decor is...
Soho: 50 Rupert Street, W1D 6DR
Distance: 0.2 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: 0.2 mls
Surrounded by dismal chains, this chic and cosmopolitan bar-eaterie easily stands out. With abstract paintings on the walls and the salon feel of the burgundy divans,...
Leicester Square: 116 St Martin's Lane, WC2N 4BF
Distance: 0.2 mls
A Main & side dish & drink from a set menu for £10.00Summer sees the Yard's courtyard buzzing with a relaxed, thirtysomething crowd of gay men supping pints beneath the evening sky. Though drinking in the open air is the...
Soho: 57 Rupert Street, W1D 7PL
Distance: 0.2 mls
At Freedom, gay liberation equals glamour. If Liberace were alive today, and had better taste, he might pop in for a glass of bubbly. Chandeliers line the bar and...
Soho: 66 Wardour Street, W1F 0TA
Distance: 0.2 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: 0.2 mls
Virtually all those who sample this Soho stalwart love it. The sumptuous, slightly shabby red decor makes it stand out from the local crowd, and it spins several...
Soho: 8-10 Brewer Street, W1F 0SE
Distance: 0.2 mls
A pub for over 300 years and a fixture on Rose Street for longer, the unabashedly traditional Lamb & Flag is always a squeeze, but no one seems to mind. Character...
Covent Garden: 33 Rose Street, WC2E 9EB
Distance: 0.2 mls
As you'd expect of the main bar at London's most talked-about new hotel, Brumus is a handsome chap. More surprising, it isn't a bit snobbish - in fact, on a Saturday...
Piccadilly: Haymarket Hotel, 1 Suffolk Place, SW1Y 4BP
Distance: 0.2 mls
The distinctively theatrical hand of bar and club designer Shaun Clarkson - responsible for Covent Garden's Denim, La Pigalle and countless other opulent interiors -...
Piccadilly: 11 Haymarket, SW1Y 4BP
Distance: 0.2 mls
The Raymond Revue Bar was a 1960s cabaret club, notorious for its striptease shows; it was, if we were to believe a towering sign at the front, 'The World Centre of...
Soho: 11 Walkers Court, W1F 0ED
Distance: 0.2 mls
At 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: 0.2 mls
This cosy, century-old Nicholson's corner pub has changed little since Orwell hung out here in the 1940s. Today's regulars take their tipples seriously; there are even...
Soho: 18 Bateman Street, W1D 3AJ
Distance: 0.2 mls
The Mitchell Brothers' overhaul of this Soho corner boozer has proved a great success, with punters flooding in to take their pick of an array of global beers ('19 and...
Soho: 31 Dean Street, W1D 3SB
Distance: 0.2 mls
This honest little boozer diagonally opposite Charing Cross Post Office brings in blokey regulars who like to mull over the racing form. Apart from the engaging...
Leicester Square: 47 Chandos Place, WC2N 4HS
Distance: 0.2 mls
Downstairs from the Red Fort Indian restaurant of some renown, the equally superior Akbar basement cocktail lounge also sources its ingredients from far and wide. The...
Soho: 77 Dean Street, W1D 3SH
Distance: 0.2 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: 0.2 mls
For a proper night out in the heart of Soho, take your beloved to Floridita, named after the famous Hemingway haunt in Havana: this glitzy but tasteful basement...
Soho: 100 Wardour Street, W1F 0TN
Distance: 0.2 mls
3 course fixed price menu (Dinner), including a glass of Mojito for £25Few 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: 0.2 mls
Downstairs bar in Mark Hix's Soho restaurant
Soho: 66-70 Brewer Street, W1F 9UP
Distance: 3563.1 mls
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