The archetypal 'locals' pub', the Dacre oozes charm like a vintage motor oozes oil. Its curvy booths appear to have been upholstered in your great-gran's time, while the horse brasses and net ...

Join a marshalled street skate every Sunday afternoon, departing from Serpentine Road in Hyde Park at 2pm. In-line and quad skaters are both welcome to attend this relaxed, slow-paced, afternoon ...

Part of our Best Pubs in London microsite. See if we've included your local. Charles Darwin would have approved of this pub. Not just because of its botanical name, but also because it naturally ...

This pub was chosen for inclusion by the Londonist editorial team. 'You'll like this pub', we said. 'It has a real community feel.' Our friends queried: What, exactly, is a community feel?

Part of our Best Pubs in London microsite. See if we've included your local. Crooked Billet is a common pub name. It refers to a bent stick that has fallen from a tree. This Crooked Billet, on a ...

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This pub was voted by our readers as the best in Stoke Newington. See the full list of winners here. It's a safe bet that Shakespeare never drank here. The building and the Bard are separated by ...

Part of our Best Pubs in London microsite. Is your local listed? The slogan “Guinness is good for you” may no longer meet advertising standards criteria, but on visiting the Auld Shillelagh on ...

This pub was voted the best in the Moorgate area by Londonist readers, during our Crossrail pub crawl. The Globe stands pretty much on top of the old Roman wall to the City, where once the river ...

This pub was chosen editorially by Londonist for inclusion. The increasingly popular Bermondsey Street needs a good pub, and it finds it in The Woolpack. Unassuming from the outside, the ...

This pub was voted as one of the best in Walthamstow by Londonist readers. The Bell presides over its ancient crossroads with an imposing, late-Victorian glower. It's a real ding-dong of a ...

Any food and drink place that opens on somewhere called Seething Lane has some work to do. Fortunately, this place seethes neither in the sense of oozing nor fuming. It is a schizophrenic place ...