The very fancy gastropub that was crowned the best pub in London for 2025 by the Good Food Guide

Notting Hill’s The Pelican has been named London’s best pub by the Good Food Guide. 

Relaunched as a gastropub in 2022 by the The Public House Group (which also runs foodie pubs The Hero in Maida Vale, The Fat Badger in Notting Hill and The Bull in Charlbury, Oxfordshire), the pub came in at seventh place in a list of the 100 best pubs in the UK, making it the top ranking London pub in the list.

This being the Good Food Guide, regular boozers have been overlooked in favour of gastropubs with slick menus and spruced up interiors. You will categorically not find any sticky carpets on this list. 

The Pelican, which is on All Saints Road, offers a high-end chop house menu with dishes such as the St John-inspired bone marrow and parsley, as well as beef and Guinness pie. Bar snacks include mince on toast and welsh rarebit. It’s all very swish inside, with cream coloured walls, exposed brick and country-core wooden finishes worthy of the Cotswolds. 

Other London gastropubs to make the grade include Farringdon’s The Eagle (at number 11), Camberwell’s newly-opened The Kerfield Arms (14), Kentish Town’s The Parakeet (22), Soho’s The Devonshire (28), Barnes’ The Waterman’s Arms (30), Stockwell’s The Canton Arms (43), Camberwell’s The Camberwell Arms (46), Hammersmith’s The Anglesea Arms in Hammersmith, Waterloo’s the Anchor and Hope, Islington’s The Tamil Crown (69) and Chelsea’s The Surprise (90). 

The overall winner was The Highland Laddie in Leeds, which reopened as a gastropub in April of this year. You can read more about The Highland Laddie (and why it’s apparently so good) here.

Time Out’s top 20 gastropubs in London. 

Plus: the best pubs in London.