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Box
Bars & PubsAt 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: 0.1 mls
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Spice of Life
Bars & PubsThe 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
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Coach & Horses
Bars & PubsSo 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
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Phoenix Artist Club
Bars & PubsKitsch, 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: 0.1 mls
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LAB
Bars & PubsAs 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: 0.1 mls
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Detroit
Bars & PubsSubterranean 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: 0.1 mls
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Brasserie Max
Bars & PubsUnder 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: 0.1 mls
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Cork & Bottle
Wine BarsA 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
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De Hems
Bars & PubsBenelux 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
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Langley
Bars & PubsThis 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: 0.1 mls
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French House
Bars & PubsThrough 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
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Lamb & Flag
Bars & PubsA 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: 0.1 mls
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Pillars of Hercules
Bars & PubsIts 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
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Salisbury
Bars & PubsThere'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: 0.2 mls
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Admiral Duncan
Bars & PubsIn 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: 0.2 mls
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Green Carnation
Bars & PubsFew 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
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Dog & Duck
Bars & PubsThis 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
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Freud
Bars & PubsBack 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
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Cross Keys
Bars & PubsQuirky, 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
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Crown & Two Chairmen
Bars & PubsThe 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
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Freedom
Bars & PubsAt 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
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Akbar
Bars & PubsDownstairs 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
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Blue Posts
Bars & PubsOne 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: 0.2 mls
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Rupert Street
Bars & PubsSoho'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
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Café des Amis
Bars & PubsAs 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: 0.2 mls
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Café des Amis
Wine BarsSome 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: 0.2 mls
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Bar Rumba
Bars & PubsBar 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: 0.2 mls
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Lobby Bar
Bars & PubsThe 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: 0.2 mls
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Madame Jo Jo's
Bars & PubsVirtually 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
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