Pubs in City of London

Story pubs in City of London

26 pubs here carry a heritage note or a passed-down story. Each offers a reason to detour beyond price.

• The Jugged Hare
• The Ship EC3
• The Globe
• Ye Olde Cock Tavern
• The Blackfriar
• The Tipperary
• The Hoop and Grapes
• Belle Sauvage (inn)
• Bull and Mouth Inn
• East India Arms
• George and Vulture
• Hand and Shears
• Hoop and Grapes
• Jamaica Wine House
• London Tavern
• Swan with Two Necks, London
• The Bell
• The Black Friar, Blackfriars
• The Centre Page
• The Harrow
• The Old Bell Tavern
• The Olde Wine Shades
• The Punch Tavern
• The Rising Sun
• Viaduct Tavern
• Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese

Crawls through City of London

A listed route with at least one stop here. Plan it from its first stop to its last.

• Fleet Street & the Writers

  The old press strip, Strand to Fleet Street, where a generation of hacks filed copy, then drank it back.

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• Bloomsbury Literary

  From the Museum Tavern down Lamb's Conduit Street, the reading-room-and-a-pint round handed down since the British Museum days.

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• Riverside Heritage

  St Katharine Docks east to Limehouse, the Thames-side taverns watermen and their grandkids still drink in at the turn of the tide.

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• A pint, a park, a view

  A City-fringe loop past Leadenhall Market that climbs to a free rooftop garden with one of London's best skyline views. A pint at each end of the climb.

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• Borough Market crawl

  A tight loop through the stalls and railway arches of Borough Market, London's oldest food market, trading since at least the 13th century, threaded between five pubs.

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• Bankside riverside walk

  Straight along the Thames path from Clink Street to the South Bank, the old wharves and a working riverside pub, with Tate Modern and the river the whole way.

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• Barbican coding pint

  A Barbican-to-Old-Street loop through the City fringe, the after-work standup pint between the Square Mile studios and Silicon Roundabout.

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• Young's beer gardens

  Garden pubs from Young's own regional guides that match our London map. Official microsite links, beer-garden story, no invented prices.

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Historic pubs in City of London

26 notable pubs on record. The oldest is The Hoop and Grapes (17th century) · 4 listed.

Cited from Wikipedia.

• 17th centuryGrade II*

  The Hoop and Grapes

  The Hoop and Grapes at 47 Aldgate High Street is a Grade II* listed pub, probably built in the late 17th century; it is one of the very few timber-framed buildings in the City of London to survive from that period, standing just beyond where the Great Fire of London was halted in 1666.Show moreShow less
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• 1667Grade II

  The Tipperary

  The Tipperary is a Grade II listed pub at 66 Fleet Street; the building was built in about 1667, and the wood-panelled pub is widely reputed to be one of London's oldest Irish pubs.Show moreShow less
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• 19th century

  London Tavern

  notable pub and meeting place in London in the 18th and 19th centuriesShow moreShow less
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• 1875Grade II*

  The Blackfriar

  The Black Friar is a Grade II* listed pub at 174 Queen Victoria Street, Blackfriars, built about 1875 on the site of a medieval Dominican (Black Friars) friary and remodelled around 1905 by the architect Herbert Fuller-Clark; it is famous for its Arts and Crafts and Art Nouveau interior of marble, mosaic and bronze reliefs of jovial friars.Show moreShow less
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• 1901

  Ye Olde Watling

  Ye Olde Watling stands at 29 Watling Street, on the line of the old Roman road of the same name, close to St Paul's Cathedral; the timber-framed pub is traditionally said to have been rebuilt for Sir Christopher Wren's workmen after the Great Fire of London, and its present old-world interior largely dates from a sympathetic refit of about 1901.Show moreShow less
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• 1977Grade II

  Ye Olde Cock Tavern

  Ye Olde Cock Tavern is a Grade II listed pub at 22 Fleet Street, listed in 1977; the tavern was moved across the street and rebuilt in the 1880s, and is traditionally said to have been frequented by Samuel Pepys, Charles Dickens and Alfred Tennyson.Show moreShow less
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