Field guide · Islington borough, London

Forty-eight pubs across the borough of Islington, from Archway to Clerkenwell, chosen for their character: the ones with a garden, the ones hiding a theatre upstairs, the ones that have served from the same mahogany bar for a hundred years.

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48 venues · data gathered from published guides and reviews, August 2026 — confirm opening hours and menu before you go

Field guide · Camden borough, London

Forty-four pubs across the borough of Camden, from Hampstead Heath to Holborn, taking in Camden Lock market and the King's Cross and St Pancras stations: the ones with rock in the basement, the ones pouring cask ale with no big-brand lager, the ones that have kept the same etched glass for a hundred years.

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44 venues · data gathered from published guides and reviews, September 2026 — confirm opening hours and menu before you go

Field guide · Westminster borough, London

Forty-five pubs across the City of Westminster, from Maida Vale to Pimlico, taking in Soho's literary dives, Mayfair's mews locals and the Division Bell pubs that keep half an eye on Parliament: the ones that claim the oldest licence, the ones with a ghost story, the ones that have poured the same halves since the 1920s.

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45 venues · data gathered from published guides and reviews, September 2026 — confirm opening hours and menu before you go

Field guide · Kensington & Chelsea borough, London

Forty pubs across the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, from the market stalls of Portobello Road to the King's Road: the ones with a film star's ghost, the ones hiding a courtyard garden behind a Victorian façade, the ones that have poured a proper pint since well before the boutiques moved in.

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40 venues · data gathered from published guides and reviews, September 2026 — confirm opening hours and menu before you go

Field guide · City of London borough, London

Thirty-two pubs across the Square Mile, from the vaulted cellars of Fleet Street to the market stalls of Leadenhall: the ones rebuilt the year after the Great Fire, the ones that were literally a Bank of England branch, the ones that have kept City traders and Smithfield market workers fed and watered for centuries.

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32 venues · data gathered from published guides and reviews, September 2026 — confirm opening hours and menu before you go

Field guide · Barnet borough, London

Twenty-nine pubs across the borough of Barnet, from the coaching inns of the old North Road in Chipping Barnet to the leafy gastropub gardens of Mill Hill and Totteridge: the ones that stood within sight of the Battle of Barnet in 1471, the ones still run by the same Irish families in Hendon and Edgware, the ones with a garden big enough to lose an afternoon in.

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29 venues · data gathered from published guides and reviews, September 2026 — confirm opening hours and menu before you go

Field guide · Hackney borough, London

Thirty-three pubs across the borough of Hackney, from the CAMRA-listed Victorian corner locals of Dalston to the canal-side beer gardens of Broadway Market and the marshland edges of Clapton: the ones that were pouring pints before the borough became shorthand for reinvention, and the ones the reinvention itself built from scratch.

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33 venues · data gathered from published guides and reviews, September 2026 — confirm opening hours and menu before you go

Field guide · Southwark borough, London

Thirty-five pubs across the borough of Southwark, from the galleried coaching inns and market boozers of Borough and Bankside to the Bermondsey Beer Mile, the riverside taverns of Rotherhithe and the independent locals of Peckham, Camberwell, Nunhead and Dulwich: the ones Dickens drank in, and the ones the last decade of reinvention built.

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35 venues · data gathered from published guides and reviews, September 2026 — confirm opening hours and menu before you go

Field guide · Haringey borough, London

Haringey, Pint by Pint

Thirty-one pubs across the borough of Haringey, from the Victorian corner locals of Crouch End and Muswell Hill to the Green Lanes taverns of Harringay, the community-owned houses of Tottenham and the palace-side stop by Alexandra Park: the pubs that outlasted the Kinks' first gig, Antic's collapse and three decades of rebranding on the Wood Green High Road.

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31 venues · data gathered from published guides and reviews, September 2026 — confirm opening hours and menu before you go

Field guide · Tower Hamlets borough, London

Twenty-eight pubs across the borough of Tower Hamlets, from the gangland corners of Whitechapel and the riverside smugglers' taverns of Wapping to the market pubs of Spitalfields, the canal-locked backstreets of Bow and the dockside terraces of the Isle of Dogs: the pubs that outlasted the Blitz, the closure of the docks and the towers of Canary Wharf going up around them.

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28 venues · data gathered from published guides and reviews, September 2026 — confirm opening hours and menu before you go

Field guide · Brent borough, London

Nineteen pubs across the borough of Brent, from the canal-side beer garden at Harlesden and the Irish bars of Willesden Lane to the Art Deco survivor at South Kenton and the gastropubs of Queen's Park: the pubs that stood their ground through demolitions, closures and the stadium arch rising over Wembley.

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19 venues · data gathered from published guides and reviews, September 2026 — confirm opening hours and menu before you go

Field guide · Lambeth borough, London

Twenty-one pubs across the borough of Lambeth, from the Royal Vauxhall Tavern's drag stage and the real-ale backstreets of Stockwell to the Windmill's gig room in Brixton and the Georgian calm of Cleaver Square: the pubs that stood their ground through South Bank redevelopment, borough boundary disputes and the long gentrification of the Brixton Road.

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21 venues · data gathered from published guides and reviews, September 2026 — confirm opening hours and menu before you go