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(menu)We found 9 restaurants in Best Old World pubs in London.
This late-Victorian revivalist local on the corner of Mayfair’s swanky ‘high street’ (home of Louboutin, Marc Jacobs, Balenciaga & Lanvin… more »
The ‘gruff’ service experienced by some readers can be a little scary, & the quality of the food wavers (the eponymous steamed buns themselves… more »
Sitting on a quiet Islington backstreet, its weathered Victorian tiles sporting lovingly tended hanging baskets, this cosy corner pub is a congenial… more »
‘The French’ could be a Gallic film set. Imagine the scene: Jean Gabin hatches a plot as Piaf warbles Padam, Padam, while Ginsberg & Gainsbourg… more »
The National Trust-owned George Inn is stolen away off the choke of Borough High Street, although its historical significance as the capital’s… more »
Leafy Wilton Row is so mature it feels like a slice of the countryside with a London postcode. The Grenadier, originally an officers’ mess for… more »
Hidden down a doppelgänger for Harry Potter’s Diagon Alley, this timber-fronted, lead-windowed ancient boasts an early example of pub branding… more »
Stooping to pass through the black wooden doorway of this Fleet Street legend means following in the wake of drinkers & hungry folk who have made… more »
Never mind the tourists who come for their fix of ‘olde London towne’, Ye Olde Mitre has been a proper drinking den since 1547. Gloriously… more »
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