London bar reviews

A child to South African restaurant Kudu

Zero-waste drinking underneath Neil Rankin’s vegan burger joint

A beer and wine taproom in a former funeral parlour

An iconic west London pub gets a gastro facelift

A retro-looking all-day Bethnal Green bar

A champagne and hot dog bar with a sparkling new lease of life

A sake specialist and bottle shop in Covent Garden

A snug drinking den above one of Richmond’s best pubs

The ‘world’s first’ alcohol-free beer bar

A sober bar from east London soda maker Square Root

The bar attached to the UK’s first sake brewery

A backstreet Camden boozer with a new gastro menu

A weekend bar residency in an East End pie shop

An independent Homerton pub where BrewDog used to be

A cleverly named rooftop bar from the people behind Peckham Italian Forza Win

Henry Cooper’s old Bellingham local with renewed heavyweight status

A Clapham branch of LCC, this time with a cinematic theme

A new HQ for the growing Bermondsey beer brand

A vermouth-heavy night-time takeover of an Italian caff in Shoreditch

A sleek Tottenham cocktail bar with late-night DJs

A funky-looking drinking den on Chalk Farm Road

A central London hotel bar with more than a touch of the tropical about it

An East Dulwich party bar serving natural wine and pizza

A reinvented pub just off the Strand

A whisky bar-pub with the look of a Japanese izakaya

A fun, buzzy bar within London’s new Standard Hotel

An atmospheric basement bar from a former Savoy bartender

A rooftop bar beneath the iconic towers of the Renaissance Hotel

A Camden cocktail bar in a former public toilet

A charming taproom in a changing corner of Deptford

A King’s Cross taproom from Australia’s Little Creatures brewery

A central London follow-up from Cocktail Trading Company, dubiously based on New York gangsters

A pub on Kentish Town Road from the team behind The Pineapple

A ‘pub with rooms’ at the south end of Brick Lane

Beers and burgers in a Walthamstow shop unit

A two-part bar from one of the world’s leading mixologists

Pub-meets-circus in leafy Catford

A French-themed bar occupying an old tobacconist’s in Kentish Town

London’s first agave bar from a tequila and mezcal expert

A Tottenham micropub inside a former public toilet

A Bermondsey outpost for the popular Manchester brewer

A Kingston pub gets a revamp from Pearmain Pubs

A bar with two personalities, both tailored to a West Hampstead crowd

A late-night King’s Cross bar spinning Italo disco and pouring vermouth

Another bar in the Mr Fogg’s family, inspired by adventures around the world

The ‘World’s Best Bar’ Dandelyan makes way for Lyaness

A King’s Cross home for the wine, gin and beer producer

A multi-purpose Spitalfields boozer from the team behind The Ten Bells

A Fitzrovia pub directed by Guy Ritchie

Walworth wine bar named after the great Greek cynic

A martini lounge in the Great Northern Hotel

A railway arch-turned-bar from Hackney Church Brew Co

An Irish-run bar doing a strong line in whiskey drinks

Tropical-themed cocktail bar brought to you by Idris Elba

A diddy, music-filled cocktail spot on Peckham Rye

A historic Fitzrovia pub, now the first tap house from Truman’s Brewery

Crystal Palace pub, the fifth from the Livelyhood group

Cocktails in central London from a startender team

Another themed bar in the Mr Fogg’s family with a colonial look

A craft beer bar from the Danish brewery in collaboration with, er, Rick Astley

Vermouth-obsessed café-bar in Coal Drops Yard

Marylebone pub with a gastro grub menu

Multi-faceted Clerkenwell pub – complete with hair salon – from the Nine Lives team

An age-old Hampstead pub with a new lease of life

A Covent Garden bar dedicated to female winemakers

A Crouch End cocktail bar from the team behind east London’s Bar Three

Tea shop meets bar in the middle of Covent Garden

A zero-waste tap bar in Broadway Market Tooting

A bar beneath Mexican taqueria Breddos in Soho

A bar below Peruvian restaurant Lima Floral in Covent Garden

A laidback boozer in Belsize Park

A wine bar from the Harts Group within brand-new Coal Drops Yard

A playful bar where cocktails are served in cans

A bright cocktail bar themed around a fictitious muse

George Orwell's favourite boozer has been given a fabulous facelift 

Another in the Mr Fogg’s group. This time a flower-filled Fitzrovia bar

Five Points brewery takes on a historic Hackney pub

A Ziggy Stardust-themed bar at the Hotel Café Royal

Brewery and taproom with strong music ties

Rustic Spanish wine and sherry bar – sister and neighbour to Miss Tapas restaurant

A quaint Italian wine bar in Old Spitalfields Market

A follow-up to the kitsch bar themed around a grandmother’s front room

A Spanish-tinged vermouth bar in SE London

A mezcaleria bringing a touch of Oaxaca to east London

A wine bar-meets-deli, with a focus on produce from Francophone regions

Luxurious bar inside The Ned with its own booze trolley

An all-weather drinking hub in Peckham’s Copeland Park

Tiki bar on Upper Street from a former Mahiki manager

Done-up pub just a skip away from the new Spurs stadium

A ‘speakeasy’ underneath Blues Kitchen in Shoreditch

A Deptford brewery established by the brothers Village

A head-turner of a bar at Shoreditch’s Curtain hotel

A small neighbourhood boozer with an even smaller beer garden

A rooftop bar on the Dorsett City Hotel’s fourteenth floor

A cocktail bar below Ollie Dabbous’s new restaurant

A Portuguese wine bar attached to London Bridge’s Londrino restaurant

A steampunk music venue turned cocktail pub

A pretty gin bar, the follow-up to GinTonica in Notting Hill

A rooftop bar in Peckham to rival Frank’s Café – also with a tropical vibe

A pared-down London Fields rooftop with panoramic views

A sparkly hotel bar with a Studio-54-meets-West-Egg vibe