The full top 50 list of the best gastropubs in the UK for 2026 – with this very famous London boozer in first place

Gastropubs are for when scampi fries and salted peanuts with your pint just aren’t enough to fill you up. The restaurant/pub hybrids have all the cosy vibes of a traditional boozer alongside spectacular food menus that rival that finest restaurants in the country. And since 2009, the Estrella Damm Top 50 Gastropubs has called upon the expertise of industry experts, chefs and food writers to determine which UK gastropubs stand out above the rest. Now, it’s revealed its 2026 edition. 

In a ceremony on Monday January 26, the title of the best gastropub in the UK for 2026 went to... The Devonshire in London. 

The ‘Dev’ in Soho first opened its doors in 2023 and quickly became the place to be spotted if you’re anyone who’s anyone (the likes of Margot Robbie and Nigella Lawson have stopped by there). Top 50 called it a ‘roaring success’ and described it simply as somewhere that ‘serves up premium quality, homemade food, focusing on the best of British produce’. 

Its main pub on the ground floor serves what’s widely regarded as London’s best Guinness and upstairs is the restaurant and grill rooms led by beef connoisseur Charlie Carroll and former Fat Duck chef Ashley Palmer-Watts. There you’ll find dishes like Scottish beef that has been dry-aged and butchered on site, creel-caught langoustines from Oban, lobster and hand-dived scallops from Devon.

Though the Devonshire is one of the hardest places in the city to get a table, it’s not absurdly unaffordable. You can tuck into a two-course set menu for just £25 or three-courses for £29.

The London boozer pushed three-time winner The Unruly Pig in Suffolk down to second place. Top 50 described the Unruly Pig as a ‘winsome and warm’ pub that serves ‘filling and well-crafted pub food in an environment that reflects the personalities of the people behind the stunning venue’. It offers a three course £35 lunch set menu featuring dishes like smoked cod’s roe on focaccia, confit pork belly and sticky date pudding.  

Third place went to another London gastropub, The Red Lion and Sun in Highgate, while fourth prize was handed to Gloucestershire’s The Woolpack Inn and fifth place was claimed by The Star Inn in North Yorkshire. 

The Estrella Damm 50 Best Gastropubs 2026 ranking in full

1. The Devonshire, Soho, London 
2. The Unruly Pig, Woodbridge, Suffolk
3. The Red Lion & Sun, Highgate, London
4. The Woolpack Inn, Slad, Gloucestershire
5. The Star Inn, Harome, North Yorkshire
6. The Angel at Hetton, Hetton, Yorkshire
7. Parkers Arms, Newton-in-Bowland, Lancashire
8. The Rat Inn, Anick, Northumberland
9. The Rum Fox, Grindleton, Lancashire
10. The Cornish Arms, Tavistock, Devon
11. Canton Arms, Stockwell, London
12. The Dog at Wingham, Wingham, Kent
13. The Abbey Inn, Byland, Yorkshire
14. The Three Horseshoes, Batcombe, Somerset
15. The Broad Chare, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Northumberland
16. The Gunton Arms, Norwich, Norfolk
17. The Baring, Islington, London
18. The Merry Harriers, Hambledon, Surrey
19. The Fordwich Arms, Canterbury, Kent
20. The Bell Inn, Langford, Oxfordshire
21. The Kentish Hare, Tunbridge Wells, Kent
22. The Crown, Burchetts Green, Berkshire
23. The Marksman, Hackney, London
24. The Hero, Maida Vale, London
25. The Kerfield Arms, Camberwell, London
26. The Sportsman, Seasalter, Kent
27. The Mariners, Rock, Cornwall
28. The Bull, Charlbury, Oxfordshire
29. The Coach, Marlow, Buckinghamshire
30. The Highland Laddie, Leeds, West Yorkshire
31. The Pipe and Glass Inn, South Dalton, Yorkshire
32. The Silver Cup, Harpenden, Hertfordshire
33. The Waterman’s Arms, Barnes, London
34. Heft, High Newton-in-Granes, Cumbria
35. The Tamil Crown, Islington, London
36. Harwood Arms, Fulham, London
37. The Killingworth Castle, Woodstock, Oxfordshire
38. The Gurnard’s Head, St Ives, Cornwall
39. The Bull & Last, Highgate, London
40. The Kinneuchar Inn, Leven, Fife
41. The Tartan Fox, Newquay, Cornwall
42. Queen of Cups, Glastonbury, Somerset
43. The Knave of Clubs, Shoreditch, London
44. The Mason’s Arms, Bampton, Oxfordshire
45. The Wild Rabbit, Kingham, Oxfordshire
46. The Black Bear Inn, Bettws Newydd, Monmouthshire
47. The French House, Soho, London
48. The Loch & The Tyne by Adam Handling, Old Windsor, Berkshire
49. Shibden Mill Inn, Halifax, West Yorkshire
50. The White Horse, Chester, Cheshire

The very best gastropubs in the UK for eating and drinking, according to Time Out. 

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