The 100 best bars and pubs in London: the full list

A great hideaway to know about in an area known for touristy pubs

It’s all about quiet communion with sherry and tapas

A little taste of laidback Spain in the non-stop West End

Everything is of extraordinarily high quality, and the minute setting offers the rare luxury of peace and quiet in central Soho

A hideaway of supreme style and opulence

Every bit as luxe as you’d expect for a bar in a Knightsbridge hotel

Londoners love Bradley’s for its low-key and unpretentious vibe

Cocktails are often served in unusual glassware (and ceramicware) with wacky garnishes, candy floss or noodles among them

Even if you can only stretch to a single drink, it’s worth it: count out every last penny and treat yourself

One of the most perfectly English experiences you’ll get in the West End

Dukes is one of London’s true classic bars, and justly famous for the theatrical presentation of martinis

Cocktails are consistently outstanding, making choosing what to order an almost impossible task

This is Soho history. Come and suck it up

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

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

The Lamb & Flag is just about as perfect a pub as you’ll find in the West End

One of Soho’s most popular cocktail haunts

One of central London’s best places for drinking proper cocktails in clubby but unstuffy surroundings

Seriously knowledgeable bar staff make sure cocktails are punchy, exciting and altogether sensational

The Old Coffee House has an unfussy proper-pubness to it

Old Louise is truly, incredibly, spectacularly ornate: a warren of Victorian frosted-glass booths

It's usually cosy and blissfully music-free, apart from the odd hipster-trad jazz session around the old walnut upright piano

Shochu, the traditional Japanese spirit, takes centre stage in this unique basement bar

Natural wines keep this rustic-French-looking place jumping

Everyone should pay at least one visit to this venerable Fleet Street landmark

One of the most beautiful and unusual bars in London

There’s a serene simplicity in all the cocktails here

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

This warm and welcoming former gatehouse offers more than 15 still and sparkling ciders on draught and straight from the keg

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

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

The house drinks all come with a bespoke food accompaniment, a classy touch, and their prices reflect that

The cocktail list is not extensive but there’s something for every taste, and the drinks are made to a very high standard

The cocktails, served by impeccably pleasant staff, are strong, well-balanced and classy

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 residents of these quiet terraces have taken the Prince to heart: it’s busy most nights

One of the best pubs in London - fact

Apart from its architecture, the main reason for a trip to the Salisbury is for a peaceful pint with extensive elbow room

The sign outside announces ‘ale, cider, meat’, and that pretty much sums up what’s on offer at the best pub in Gospel Oak

Visit and remind yourself that in a city full of institutions, the London pub is perhaps the best one we’ve got

Neither trashy nor pretentious, the vibe here is fun but still stylish

The Carpenter’s Arms was once under the rule of East End gangsters Ronnie and Reggie Kray (and apparently run by their old mum)

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

The beer, being visibly brewed on site, is varied and tasty, with a good selection of international craft ales on hand to boot

Craft beer done the time-honoured Low-Country way

Incredible cocktails, and, in our experience, dazzlingly wonderful service

The perfect update of a local community boozer: its clientele reflect all shades of local life

Mission’s aim is to promote interesting and unusual California wines

The selection of beer bottles here is just staggering

A gorgeous, low-lit room with comfortable seating, smooth table service and a long, playful cocktail list

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

The Palm Tree provides a Cockney experience more intense than Danny Dyer pulling pints at the Queen Vic

The puntastic cocktails at Peg + Patriot are as creative as their names suggest

This is a London drinker with character rather than an image

The Prospect seems hardly to have changed since the days of dock workers and deckhands

We like the Queen’s Arms: it’s just the right balance between posh and prosaic

Sager & Wilde's main selling point – its wines – are served at a reasonable price by the bottle or glass

Some of the best cocktails to be found in Bethnal Green’s burgeoning booze scene

Live music is the Sebright’s biggest draw, with gigs on almost every night in the louche basement

The Spurstowe never tries too hard to impress – which of course just wouldn’t wash in this trendy part of town

In the evenings, the Sun gets busy. Not surprising: there’s a lot to love here

Comparing White Lyan to your local boozer is like comparing Heston Blumenthal’s Fat Duck to a greasy spoon

Even when the drinks sound a little wacky, they have a tendency to taste great

Think ‘1950s village hall’: it’s full of gorgeous wood panelling, stained glass windows, church pews and criss-crossing floral fabric bunting

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

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

Three floors of bow-fronted Georgian magic, with the top-level room in particular giving fantastic Thames views both up- and downstream

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

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