Covent Garden pubs

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Check out the best pubs in Covent Garden and pick your perfect pint

Covent Garden boasts an array of pubs ranging from traditional (like Cross Keys) to modern (Porterhouse). The area is home to one of London's oldest pubs, The Lamb and Flag. Use our guide to discover WC2's best watering holes.

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Cross Keys
Rating: 3/5 31 Endell Street, London, WC2H 9EB
A pavement smoking-and-drinking seating area consisting of planks of wood placed on beer barrels doesn't promise much. However, a peek inside the flower-fringed...
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Lamb & Flag
Rating: 3/5 33 Rose Street, London, WC2E 9EB
Rose Street wasn't always the domain of puzzled tourists sipping pints of Bombardier. Squeezed between Garrick Street and the old Covent Garden market, this dog-leg alleyway was once the haunt of whores and bare-knuckle fighters, the latter...
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Lowlander
Rating: 3/5 36 Drury Lane, London, WC2B 5RR
Brightly logoed and Benelux-themed, the smart Lowlander's expansive, long-tabled main space is easily filled thanks to an impressive range of draught and bottled beers, a fine kitchen and likeable...
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Porterhouse
Rating: 3/5 21-22 Maiden Lane, London, WC2E 7NA
Irish by professed nationality but global by nature, this gleaming hostelry with a busy terrace does a fine line in international beers and hearty fare.
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