Pubs in Westminster

Story pubs in Westminster

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

• The Willow Walk - JD Wetherspoon
• The Queens Arms
• The Warrington Hotel
• The Coach & Horses
• Plumbers Arms (Belgravia)
• Masons Arms (Mayfair)
• The Dog & Duck
• The Feathers
• The Prince Alfred
• Albert (Victoria)
• The Kings Head
• Three Tuns
• Two Chairmen
• The Lyric
• Silver Cross
• The Warwick Castle
• Paxtons Head
• The Admiralty
• Rose & Crown (Mayfair)
• The Coal Hole
• Salisbury
• Sherlock Holmes
• Blue Posts
• The Footman
• Coach & Horse (Mayfair)
• The Chesterfield Arms
• The Wilton Arms
• Tattersalls Tavern
• The Grenadier
• The Punchbowl
• The Star Tavern
• The Old Bank of England
• Boisdale of Belgravia
• The Audley
• The Rose & Crown
• White Swan
• Admiral Duncan
• Angel and Crown
• Coach and Horses
• Comptons of Soho
• De Hems
• Denbigh Arms
• Duke of Wellington
• Duke of Wellington
• Freemasons Arms
• John Snow
• Lamb and Flag
• Lord High Admiral, Pimlico
• Lord Wargrave
• Marquis of Clanricarde
• Marylebone Live
• Mercers Arms
• Morpeth Arms
• Nell Gwynne Tavern
• Newman Arms
• Old White Horse Cellar
• Pillars of Hercules
• PS Tattershall Castle
• Red Lion
• Red Lion
• Ship and Shovell
• Sun and 13 Cantons
• Thatched House Tavern
• The Argyll Arms
• The Champion Public House
• The Cheshire Cheese
• The Clachan
• The Colony Room
• The Devereux
• The Devil Tavern
• The Duke of York
• The Edgar Wallace
• The Flora
• The Flying Horse
• The French House
• The Harp
• The Intrepid Fox
• The Marquis of Granby
• The Mitre
• The Old Bell
• The Old Shades
• The Only Running Footman
• The Paviours Arms
• The Ship
• The Ship Soho
• The Spice of Life
• The Tea Clipper
• The Victoria
• The White Lion
• Turks Head
• Two Chairmen
• Westminster Arms
• Windsor Castle
• Yorkshire Stingo

Crawls through Westminster

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

• Victorian Soho

  Five Dean Street–era snugs the old Soho hands drank in. Pass the round on to whoever's next.

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• 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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• Soho small plates

  A kitchen-first loop through Dean Street's food pubs. Proper plates between the pints, so nobody drinks on an empty stomach.

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• Westminster & Whitehall

  From the Admiralty to Trafalgar Square, the pubs civil servants and tourists share when Parliament is in session and the bells are ringing.

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• Leicester Square soft round

  A cocktail-bar loop off Leicester Square. Every stop mixes drinks, so it's an easy one to run alcohol-free: order the mocktail version of the round.

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• Historic pubs (Eating Europe guide)

  Seven stops from Eating Europe's London pubs guide. Heritage notes and stories only, never prices. A city-wide greatest-hits loop, not one tight walk.

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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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• Nicholson's West End

  A walkable Mayfair–Soho–Strand loop through Nicholson's historic pubs. Official menu and book links, no invented prices.

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Historic pubs in Westminster

73 notable pubs on record. The oldest is The Nellie Dean (18th century) · 10 listed.

Cited from Wikipedia.

• 18th centuryGrade II

  The Nellie Dean

  The Nellie Dean of Soho is a Grade II listed pub at 89 Dean Street, Soho; the present building dates from 1900 and there has been a pub on the site since the 18th century.Show moreShow less
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• 1736

  The Crown & Two Chairmen

  The Crown & Two Chairmen at 31-32 Dean Street, Soho, has had a pub on the site since 1736; the present building was rebuilt in 1929 and the name is said to recall two sedan-chair men who drank here while Queen Anne sat for a portrait opposite.Show moreShow less
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• 19th century

  The Cheshire Cheese

  The Cheshire Cheese at 48 Crutched Friars sits beneath the viaduct of Fenchurch Street station in the City of London; a pub of this name traded on the site before the railway arrived in the 1850s, with records of the Cheshire Cheese, Crutched Friars going back to the early 19th century. (It is a separate pub from the famous Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese on Fleet Street.)Show moreShow less
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• 19th centuryGrade II

  The Star Tavern

  The Star Tavern is a Grade II listed pub at 6 Belgrave Mews West, Belgravia, of early-to-mid-19th-century origin; in the 1950s and 1960s it drew both high society and the London underworld, and it is reputed to be where the 1963 Great Train Robbery was planned.Show moreShow less
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• 1846

  The Queens Arms

  Pimlico pub from 1846; a useful Victorian reference stop for the seeded heritage route.Show moreShow less
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• 1886Grade II

  The Old Bank of England

  The Old Bank of England is a Grade II listed pub at 194 Fleet Street, built in 1886 by Sir Arthur Blomfield; it housed the Law Courts branch of the Bank of England from 1888 to 1975 before becoming a pub in 1994.Show moreShow less
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