The best places to drink mulled wine in London

This cosy Covent Garden pub flogs ten litres of its mulled wine a day. Why is it so damn addictive? They’ve updated a historic recipe from the Savoy. It’s kept carefully at temperature and a variety of spices – from classic cloves to cassia bark – provide more depth than in the kind of stewed toddy you get served down the market.

Each year, the Queen of Hoxton’s rooftop space gets a wintry facelift – and this time the theme is a random homage to the Wizard of Oz. What does make sense, though, is the mulled berry wine that’s being served. Sloe berries add a juicy edge to the drink, and the altitude helps the steamy drink go to your head even quicker.

This all-in-one bar/shop/café/craft area serves a spice-packed mulled wine (£5). But the festivities don’t stop there. They are also serving a Winter Sun Sangria for groups to glug while taking part in Christmas card making or neon life drawing. 

This Dartmouth Park local makes a traditional, cosy setting for drinks with friends. The’ve had the mulled wine on the go since November and it’s best enjoyed by the fire after a bracing walk around the Heath. Get ready for the glow.  

This characterful sixteenth-century inn was immortalised in Dickens’s ‘The Pickwick Papers’ and is also said to be the place where Keats wrote ‘Ode to a Nightingale’. Where better than here to sample the chef’s mulled wine next to a roaring fire.

Enjoyed best by the fireplace, the mulled wine here is £4.90 a glass and is sweet relief after trawling the shops of Stratford for pressies. Go on, you’ve earned this one.

This spacious pub has been a Tooting stalwart since the nineteenth century. Wash down your pub grub with a mulled wine or two. A glass will set you back a fiver on a festive menu that includes a bowl of pigs in blankets, aka the ultimate bar snack. 

This Georgian riverside pub has some of the best views of any pub in London. Enjoy them while savouring their take on the mulled stuff: mulled wine, mulled cider and even mulled gin.

The Old Red Lion has plenty of cosy nooks and crannies for enjoying mulled wine (£5). Neck it during Thursday night’s pub quiz and feel like a champion regardless of your team’s outcome.  

Fancy sipping your mulled wine on a boat? You can do it on the Tamesis, a floating pub. Over the Christmas period, they will be serving mulled wine – a perfect winter warmer to be enjoyed out on deck, admiring the views of Westminster and the Houses of Parliament.