Supposedly the oldest pub on the Thames; supposedly built on the launching point for the Pilgrim Fathers; and supposedly the only UK pub licensed to sell US stamps... the Mayflower carries a bevy ...

Part of our Best Pubs in London microsite. See if we've included your local. The Grapes is yet another classic riverside pub in an area replete with such things, and it also has a modest pedigree ...

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 ...

This pub was voted one of the best in Maida Vale by Londonist readers. Thank the pub gods for the Warwick Castle. Everywhere you turn in this part of town old boozers are turning into gastropubs ...

Chelsea's full of classy gastropubs, where the casual drinker feels a little bit intimidated by the omnipresent cutlery and £20-a-main menu. The Pig's Ear is different, though. It has a relaxed ...

This pub was voted by our readers as one of the best on the Isle of Dogs. See the full list of winners here. At the southern tip of the Isle of Dogs, a mere tunnel's length from tourist Greenwich ...

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This pub was editorially chosen for inclusion by Londonist. One of a trio of riverside pubs on Strand-on-the-Green and, for our money, the best. The City Barge claims 14th century origins, which ...

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 ...

This pub was editorially chosen for inclusion by Londonist. A leading candidate for London's most peculiar pub name, The Case is Altered perches out in the semi-rural Eastcote conservation area.

The Forester was designed by Nowell Parr, a mostly forgotten architect who designed dozens of pubs in these realms (see also the Old Pack Horse in Chiswick), as well as plenty of civic buildings.

This pub was voted one of the best in Hackney by Londonist readers. It was nearly curtains for the Chesham. It closed in October 2012 after serving the community for almost 150 years. The owner ...