The Open Guide to London: the free London guide

Pubs are great. We like pubs. Some of them have beer gardens. Most people have experienced the dilemma of finding a pub that's open after 11pm - a particular nightmare in the centre of town. Similarly, there are those venues that conjur up a strange air of 'Deliverance' that are best avoided unless you carry fire-arms as a matter of course (or like getting beaten up/stared at in a strangely disturbing way.)

Some pubs (notably JD Wetherspoon ones) have non-smoking areas for people who don't want to inhale second-hand-smoke while enjoying a beer.

Pub-related phenomena include closing time, pub crawls and vertical drinking.

• View all pages in Category Pubs
• Search the Open Guide to London for your perfect pub
• View all pages in Category Beer Gardens
• View all pages in Category Good Beer Guide

London Pub Guides

• Pubs.com ("traditional and historic London pubs")
• fancyapint? guide to London pubs (includes the facility to find a pub by nearest tube station)
• The Random London Pub Finder ("It is our mission to return a joyful element of luck to the night on the tiles, to free the harassed from the onerous duties of choosing a pub for the big night out (which everyone then complains about anyway), to allow the pub going public to throw themselves into the arms of fate!")
• London Elite guide to pubs and bars ("The establishments and service providers listed on this site have been carefully chosen as places that exude that extra style and class that the discerning consumer seeks in London. They are not necessarily the most expensive. We avoid places that are pompous and pretentious and which take themselves too seriously.")
• LondonEats
• Evening Standard London pub and bar guide
• Strange but true London pub facts
• This once great link is down, to be repaired:Pubs Outwith Oxfordshire (London section) (Colin Batchelor's pub guide. I'm not clever enough to write it a suitable description, although the first sentence in these parentheses actually does quite a good job.) But, argh, it has gone. We are going to hunt him down and make him put it back. See http://tantallon.org.uk/ in the meantime.
• Cask Marque have lists of pubs that have been approved by their beer criteria. Unfortunately their lists are indexed by now extinct postal counties so the following are useful
  • North, Northwest & East London
  • West, Southwest & Southeast London
  • South East - includes Bromley etc
  • Middlesex & North West Surrey - includes Croydon, Sutton , Kingston , Twickenham
  • Berkshire
  • Buckinghamshire, West Hertfordshire
  • Surrey
  • Essex