The London Pub Guide

Why this guide

A guide written like a friend, not a directory.

Open any restaurant app and you get a wall of five-star averages. This one flips it. 114 pubs, hand-picked, each with a tip on what to order or where to sit. No affiliate deals. No paid listings. Just genuine recommendations from a Londoner who believes pubs are Britain’s living rooms.

Curated by Mike Litman · mikelitman.me

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114 pubs. One click to your kind of evening.

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Categories · Browse by kind

Nine ways to choose a pub. Pick the one that matches the evening you want.

Pick your kind of pub. The guide does the rest.

Nine ways into the guide. Each curated, each with star ratings or hand-picked tips, each updated as new pubs are reviewed.

Sunday Roast

The 70 Sunday roasts rated, with prices on every entry.

Eight of seventy earned all five stars. The honest shortlist: star scores, price bands, area filters, no padding.

70 rated · 8 five-star Beer Garden

The 67 best beer gardens in London, sortable by area.

Sixty-seven pubs with a proper garden. Riverside tables, walled courtyards, rooftop terraces; yes, the dog can come.

67 pubs · all areas Dog Friendly

The 75 London pubs that welcome four-legged regulars.

Two-thirds of the guide. Bowls at the bar, biscuits behind it: pubs that count dogs as paying customers.

75 pubs · one-tap filter Cosy

Snugs, fireplaces, low-beamed rooms. London on a wet Tuesday.

For when the city is dark by four. Fires that work, candles that flicker, walls thick enough to hold the heat.

37 pubs · winter-ready Riverside

19 pubs on the Thames. The city looks better from a pint.

Bermondsey, Hammersmith, Wapping, Greenwich. The pubs where the river does half the work for you.

19 pubs · all reaches Historic

42 historic pubs. Dickens drank here. Orwell wrote here. Elizabeth I danced here.

Coaching inns, gin palaces, Victorian saloons: the buildings that hold the social history of the city.

42 pubs · pre-1900 Cheap Pints

The pubs in the £ bracket. Central London for the price of zone four.

Sam Smith’s, CAMRA winners, independent boozers that haven’t hiked the pint price. The honest pubs.

All £ entries Craft Beer

26 craft beer pubs. Tank-fresh, cask-conditioned, independent.

Howling Hops, Kernel, Five Points; the brewpubs that ship the beer down the stairs to the bar.

26 pubs · independent Crawl Planner

Plan a pub crawl by area. Walking times included.

Drop pubs onto a Leaflet map, export to Google Maps. Four pre-built routes: Bermondsey, Soho, Thames Path, more coming.

4 routes published

Map · The shape of the guide

Every pin is one of the 114. Each one took a Saturday.

The whole guide, on one map.

114 pubs across five London areas. Click a cluster to zoom, tap a pub for the tip. Open the full Map Explorer for filters and walking routes.

Interactive map

Find a pub near where you are, where you’re going, or where the next one is.

Leaflet map with clustered markers. Toggle the Map Explorer for full-screen with category filters.

What’s on · The daily pipeline

Six RSS feeds, scored daily at 7:30am UTC. The events that are pub-shaped, surfaced before the doors open.

What’s on in London’s pubs this week.

Six RSS feeds, an in-house ranking model called PINT, the most genuinely pub-relevant gigs, quizzes and screenings surfaced to the top.

Daily refresh · Runs at 7:30am UTC · Pulls from 6 feeds · Scored by PINT See all →

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The Friday newsletter. The submission box.

A weekly roundup of new pubs, Sunday roast reviews, hidden gems and seasonal recommendations. And a place to send the one you think is missing.

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Know a pub we’re missing?

This guide grows with your help. If there’s a London pub you love that isn’t here yet, tell us about it. We visit every suggestion.

Or email us directly at hello@mikelitman.me

Contact

Press, partnerships, pub tips.

One inbox. Founder Mike Litman reads every message. Press kit at pubguidelondon.com/press.

Get in touch

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The London Pub Guide

A proper guide to London’s pubs, built like the city itself.

A guide written like a friend, not a directory.

114 pubs. One click to your kind of evening.

No pubs found

Pick your kind of pub. The guide does the rest.

The 70 Sunday roasts rated, with prices on every entry.

The 67 best beer gardens in London, sortable by area.

The 75 London pubs that welcome four-legged regulars.

Snugs, fireplaces, low-beamed rooms. London on a wet Tuesday.

19 pubs on the Thames. The city looks better from a pint.

42 historic pubs. Dickens drank here. Orwell wrote here. Elizabeth I danced here.

The pubs in the £ bracket. Central London for the price of zone four.

26 craft beer pubs. Tank-fresh, cask-conditioned, independent.

Plan a pub crawl by area. Walking times included.

The whole guide, on one map.

Find a pub near where you are, where you’re going, or where the next one is.

What’s on in London’s pubs this week.

The Friday newsletter. The submission box.

Press, partnerships, pub tips.

A guide written like a friend, not a directory.

114 pubs. One click to your kind of evening.

No pubs found

Pick your kind of pub. The guide does the rest.

The 70 Sunday roasts rated, with prices on every entry.

The 67 best beer gardens in London, sortable by area.

The 75 London pubs that welcome four-legged regulars.

Snugs, fireplaces, low-beamed rooms. London on a wet Tuesday.

19 pubs on the Thames. The city looks better from a pint.

42 historic pubs. Dickens drank here. Orwell wrote here. Elizabeth I danced here.

The pubs in the £ bracket. Central London for the price of zone four.

26 craft beer pubs. Tank-fresh, cask-conditioned, independent.

Plan a pub crawl by area. Walking times included.

The whole guide, on one map.

Find a pub near where you are, where you’re going, or where the next one is.

What’s on in London’s pubs this week.

The Friday newsletter. The submission box.

Press, partnerships, pub tips.

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