The best beer garden in London in 2025, according to Time Out

If there’s anything Londoners love more than pubs, it’s beer gardens. 

Now that the sun has started rearing its lovely golden head, it’s time for us to deliver the very best pub terraces and beer gardens that this fine city has to offer. Step forwards, Time Out’s definitive list of the very best beer gardens in London, 2025.

We’ve ranked our favourite 21 al fresco drinking spots across the capital, from Lewisham to Highbury, and top of the list this year is Finsbury Park’s majestic, occasionally confusing Faltering Fullback.

One of the weirdest, but most enjoyable beer gardens in London, this beer garden contains multitudes. A kind of treehouse/Ewok village hybrid, what the Faltering Fullback’s beer garden lacks in width it makes up for in height. There are stairs. There are nooks. There are even crannies. And on a hot summer’s day, it’s pretty much the best place to be in London.

Other notable entries include the beer garden at Brixton’s Duke of Edinburgh, notable for being extremely vast and Newington Green’s Army and Navy, notable for being extremely busy when Arsenal are playing.

We’ve also featured some all time beer garden classics; Highgate’s The Flask, Wandsworth’s The Ship, Camden’s Edinboro Castle and Twickenham’s ever-charning White Swan, which is basically on the banks of the Thames.

Here is Time Out’s full list of the best beer gardens in London right now.

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