Borough · Southwark
The Rake
London's original craft beer bar, roughly the size of a garden shed
- Address14 Winchester Walk, Borough Market, London, SE1 9AG
- Phone020 7407 0557
- Websiteutobeer.co.uk/the-rake
- OwnershipIndependent pub
About The Rake
A tiny, independently run beer specialist bar in Borough Market, spun out of the Utobeer stall, with no fixed beer list and a cult following.
Opened in 2006 by the team behind the Utobeer stall in Borough Market, the Rake is a genuinely minuscule pub — standing room for maybe thirty people, spilling onto benches outside when the weather allows — that punches enormously above its size. It keeps no permanent beer list: four handpumps and around eighteen keg lines are constantly rotated through UK and international breweries, so a regular might never drink the same beer twice. It was one of the first places in London to take craft beer seriously as a retail proposition rather than a novelty, and it remains independently run rather than tied to a pub company, trading on the strength of its buying and the passing footfall of Borough Market.
On tap
Constantly rotating cask and craft keg list, no house regulars
Food
Light snacks; food can be brought in from Borough Market with permission
More pubs in Borough
- The George InnLondon's last galleried coaching inn, and the only one still pulling pints
- The Southwark TavernA Victorian-tiled corner boozer with a cellar bar that used to be a debtors’ prison
- The Market PorterOpens at 6am for market traders and never really slows down after that