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 bramble 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 Dartmouth Park local makes a traditional, cosy setting for drinks with friends. They’ll have the mulled wine on the go all December 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 cabarnet sauvignon next to a roaring fire.

Enjoyed best by the fireplace, the mulled wine here is reasonably priced, served throughout December, 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: their warming brew is served throughout the month of December. 

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 this December. 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. They serve mulled wine at £7.50 a glass – it's a perfect winter warmer to be enjoyed out on deck, admiring the views of Westminster and the Houses of Parliament.

Not many London pubs have a fire as inviting as the one at the Anglesea. Make a beeline for it and for the spiced stuff. This pub takes its wine list seriously, so a drop of the mulled stuff is always served with flair.