Fleet Street · the City of London
The Punch Tavern
Named after the magazine, by its own staff
- Address99 Fleet Street, EC4Y 1DE
- Phone020 7353 6658
- Websiteurbanpubsandbars.com/venues/punch-tavern
- OwnershipPart of Urban Pubs and Bars
About The Punch Tavern
Named in the 1840s after Punch magazine's staff, who drank here; the ornate Victorian interior still looks the part.
The Punch Tavern takes its name from the satirical magazine Punch, whose journalists and cartoonists drank here from the 1840s. It's one of Fleet Street's most striking surviving gin palaces, with etched glass and gilded fittings, and now stocks more than ninety gins alongside a hidden upstairs cocktail bar.
On tap
Over ninety gins, plus cocktails and the usual beer taps.
Food
Pub food and sharing plates, best had at the downstairs bar.
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