
Shoreditch is littered with them so take your pick of the greenest, buzziest and booziest beer gardens in the East End. Where better for a quick pint or two than at a beer garden? Your local pub’s younger, more fun cousin has been picking up speed all over London, and it’s obvious why - beer-thirsty pub-goers want pints outdoors. Outdoor brunches, obnoxiously large sunnies, long walks on the street (or beach, if you can swing it) and all-day drinks. Summer is the perfect time for a lot of things. Worry no more because we’re curating a list of pubs that offer private hire options in London. You can find a pub on almost every corner when you walk around London, but not every venue offers an option where you can hire out the space for your own private event. Many of them even have their own Wikipedia page. The capital has staked a great pub on every corner of its sprawling streets. There are football pubs, old many pubs, student pubs, theatre pubs, outdoor pubs, cosy pubs, cheap pubs – the list is endless. On the other end, you have your gastro-pub a 'classier' affair (some say a pub with ideas above its station), you're as likely to get served a risotto as well as a pint. You got your flat-roof pub, the haunt of the brave and the boisterous, laid out with sticky carpet and humming along to the racket of the fruit machine. It's such a huge part of our culture that we've even begun to categorise pubs. No matter where you go in this fair country, you'll find a building with people in it getting drunk and resisting the urge to go home. Here's a look at our favourite bars to have a drink at in Soho.įew things have come to represent England quite as viscerally as the humble pub. There are plenty of classic Soho bars that honour the time-proven joy of sensory displacement, as well as a few new spots that are valiantly investing the area with new ideas, new drinks, and new characters. It's not all gentrified gloom and doom, though. As with every famous London hotspot, Soho often risks becoming a mausoleum to its own heyday. The roads and back alleys of the West End still run with beer and blood most Saturday nights, though it's of a distinctly touristic hue. Soho's international reputation proceeds it. Peter O'Toole, Annie Morris and Tracy Emin developed their artistic and alcoholic sensibilities amongst the beer taps and discarded cigarette ends of Dean Street, Greek Street and, of course, Carnaby. Bowie caught his big break in a bar there. Marc Bolan used to assist his mum on Berwick Street market in the 1960s. Every raconteur imaginable has called the square mile home. Few areas can boast the pedigree of bars that Soho has.
