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The 100 best bars and pubs in London: the full list
We've done the drinking for you, now read our full list of London's very best bars and pubs divided up by area
Looking for a tipple in London town? Browse our list of the very best bars and pubs London has to offer. We've divided them up by area for your ease, so head north, south, east, west or stick with central London for impressive local boozers, lively cocktail bars, pubs for a cool craft beer or sophisticated wine bars. You'll find them all and so much more below. Happy drinking!
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28°-50° Wine Workshop & Kitchen
American Bar at the Beaumont
Ape & Bird
A great hideaway to know about in an area known for touristy pubs
Bar Pepito
It’s all about quiet communion with sherry and tapas
Barrica
A little taste of laidback Spain in the non-stop West End
Bar Termini
Everything is of extraordinarily high quality, and the minute setting offers the rare luxury of peace and quiet in central Soho
Beaufort Bar at The Savoy
A hideaway of supreme style and opulence
Blue Bar
Every bit as luxe as you’d expect for a bar in a Knightsbridge hotel
Bradley's Spanish Bar
Londoners love Bradley’s for its low-key and unpretentious vibe
Coach & Horses
Cocktail Trading Company
Cocktails are often served in unusual glassware (and ceramicware) with wacky garnishes, candy floss or noodles among them
The Connaught Bar
Even if you can only stretch to a single drink, it’s worth it: count out every last penny and treat yourself
Cross Keys
One of the most perfectly English experiences you’ll get in the West End
Dandelyan
Dukes Hotel
Dukes is one of London’s true classic bars, and justly famous for the theatrical presentation of martinis
Experimental Cocktail Club
Cocktails are consistently outstanding, making choosing what to order an almost impossible task
French House
This is Soho history. Come and suck it up
Harp
The range of ciders and ales on offer here is outstanding and the prices are blissfully low, both of which have helped to cement the Harp's reputation as a destination for true ale-ficienados
Jerusalem Tavern
This Farringdon bar has the sort of look many pubs invest a lot of time, effort and money into imitating, but the Jerusalem looks the perfect part
Lamb & Flag
The Lamb & Flag is just about as perfect a pub as you’ll find in the West End
Mark's Bar
One of Soho’s most popular cocktail haunts
Milk & Honey
One of central London’s best places for drinking proper cocktails in clubby but unstuffy surroundings
Mr Fogg's
Seriously knowledgeable bar staff make sure cocktails are punchy, exciting and altogether sensational
Old Coffee House
The Old Coffee House has an unfussy proper-pubness to it
Princess Louise
Old Louise is truly, incredibly, spectacularly ornate: a warren of Victorian frosted-glass booths
Queen's Head
It's usually cosy and blissfully music-free, apart from the odd hipster-trad jazz session around the old walnut upright piano
Shochu Lounge
Shochu, the traditional Japanese spirit, takes centre stage in this unique basement bar
Terroirs
Natural wines keep this rustic-French-looking place jumping
Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese
Everyone should pay at least one visit to this venerable Fleet Street landmark
Zetter Townhouse
One of the most beautiful and unusual bars in London
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69 Colebrooke Row
There’s a serene simplicity in all the cocktails here
Craft Beer Company
Earl of Essex
Nowadays, almost every new pub tries to sell itself on a ‘craft beer’ offer, but not all manage it on this scale - there are 11 on keg, five or six on cask, plus a couple of quality ciders
Euston Cider Tap
This warm and welcoming former gatehouse offers more than 15 still and sparkling ciders on draught and straight from the keg
Euston Tap
The sheer number of brews on offer here is enough to make beer fans go weak at the knees before they’ve even got a glass in their hand
Grain Store Bar
Try a bellini made not with peach purée but with celeriac purée; or a ‘Greco-Roman wine’, infused with the likes of smoked paprika cordial
Knowhere Special
The house drinks all come with a bespoke food accompaniment, a classy touch, and their prices reflect that
Ladies & Gentlemen
The cocktail list is not extensive but there’s something for every taste, and the drinks are made to a very high standard
Original Sin
The cocktails, served by impeccably pleasant staff, are strong, well-balanced and classy
Pineapple
This backstreet boozer dates back to the mid-nineteenth century, and you can feel the history in the weathered wood of the joyously unmodernised main bar
The Prince
The residents of these quiet terraces have taken the Prince to heart: it’s busy most nights
Railway Tavern
One of the best pubs in London - fact
The Salisbury
Apart from its architecture, the main reason for a trip to the Salisbury is for a peaceful pint with extensive elbow room
Southampton Arms
The sign outside announces ‘ale, cider, meat’, and that pretty much sums up what’s on offer at the best pub in Gospel Oak
Wenlock Arms
Visit and remind yourself that in a city full of institutions, the London pub is perhaps the best one we’ve got
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Callooh Callay
Neither trashy nor pretentious, the vibe here is fun but still stylish
Carpenter's Arms
The Carpenter’s Arms was once under the rule of East End gangsters Ronnie and Reggie Kray (and apparently run by their old mum)
Cat & Mutton
The sizeable Cat & Mutton sits proudly at the helm of Hackney's Broadway Market, and has been welcoming its costermongers and consumers for 300 years
Crate Brewery
The beer, being visibly brewed on site, is varied and tasty, with a good selection of international craft ales on hand to boot
Dove
Craft beer done the time-honoured Low-Country way
Happiness Forgets
Incredible cocktails, and, in our experience, dazzlingly wonderful service
Hawksmoor Spitalfields Bar
King's Arms
The perfect update of a local community boozer: its clientele reflect all shades of local life
Mission
Mission’s aim is to promote interesting and unusual California wines
Mother Kelly's
The selection of beer bottles here is just staggering
Nightjar
A gorgeous, low-lit room with comfortable seating, smooth table service and a long, playful cocktail list
The Old Blue Last
Despite its location at the epicentre of the Shoreditch party scene and its association with hipster bible Vice (which bought the place in 2004), the Old Blue Last does a remarkable job of defying preconceptions
Palm Tree
The Palm Tree provides a Cockney experience more intense than Danny Dyer pulling pints at the Queen Vic
Peg & Patriot
The puntastic cocktails at Peg + Patriot are as creative as their names suggest
Pride of Spitalfields
This is a London drinker with character rather than an image
Prospect of Whitby
The Prospect seems hardly to have changed since the days of dock workers and deckhands
Queens Arms
We like the Queen’s Arms: it’s just the right balance between posh and prosaic
Sager & Wilde
Sager & Wilde's main selling point – its wines – are served at a reasonable price by the bottle or glass
Satan's Whiskers
Some of the best cocktails to be found in Bethnal Green’s burgeoning booze scene
Sebright Arms
Live music is the Sebright’s biggest draw, with gigs on almost every night in the louche basement
Spurstowe Arms
The Spurstowe never tries too hard to impress – which of course just wouldn’t wash in this trendy part of town
Sun Tavern
In the evenings, the Sun gets busy. Not surprising: there’s a lot to love here
White Lyan
Comparing White Lyan to your local boozer is like comparing Heston Blumenthal’s Fat Duck to a greasy spoon
Worship Street Whistling Shop
Even when the drinks sound a little wacky, they have a tendency to taste great
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Antelope
Think ‘1950s village hall’: it’s full of gorgeous wood panelling, stained glass windows, church pews and criss-crossing floral fabric bunting
Baltic
Bedford
There’s free live music (of varying quality, which is all part of the fun) Monday to Thursday, and on Friday and Saturday nights, the Bedford plays host to brilliantly intimate comedy night Banana Cabaret
Crown & Anchor
One of the best beer and ale pubs in London, which makes its incongruous location on an otherwise unloved section of Brixton Road even more incredible
Cutty Sark Tavern
Three floors of bow-fronted Georgian magic, with the top-level room in particular giving fantastic Thames views both up- and downstream
Draft House
The endlessly rotating list of guest ales means you’re unlikely to find a beer lover who can’t find something new to relish each week
Hare & Billet
The Ivy House
It welcomes locals of all ages for a mates-rates pint of locally brewed ale, carefully sourced pub food and events ranging from live music to yoga classes, knitting circles and kids’ dance lessons