The Trafalgar Hotel Roof Terrace Bar

Separate from the Rockwell bar a few stories down, this wonderful rooftop experience is breathtaking, especially under the twinkling of the Lights of central London. Entry costs around five pounds at a small desk in a reception area of the hotel. The lifts, (lit up with neon blue) then take [...]

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The Rockwell Bar

The Rockwell bar at the Trafalgar hotel is a spacious and a beautiful welcome to the guests. Entering literally from the corner of the Trafalgar square until Nelson’s watchful gaze and steps and a heavy modern style set of doors. Inside the polished floors bounce the light around inside the hall-like bar which [...]

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St Stephen’s Tavern

In the pocket of Big Ben and the houses of parliament sits this pub, obviously a very old and charming venue which must have had politicians of all eras having drinks within its walls at one time or another. The bar sits amidst a small room with some seating around it and behind [...]

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Tattershall Castle

Ahoy! Finally an affordable bar in the middle and I mean the middle of London, in fact a ship on the Thames itself moored up by embankment station. The tattershall castle promises amazing views of the river, the London eye and up river the houses of parliament. The boat itself is a large tugboat [...]

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The Texas Embassy Bar

In one of the nicer parts of town, the Texas Embassy sits just outside the brash crowds that populate more commercial eateries such as Planet Hollywood and Hard Rock Cafe. Maybe this is why it saw fit to set up a Mexican parlour with the same tourist attracting template and proceed to [...]

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The Red Lion

This very well hidden pub is a commitment to a very old London pub tradition of squeezing the smallest tavern into the most tight street in the world and then putting it on the map. The place is little more than a small cosy room with a scattering of tables, a bar and [...]

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Motion Bar
 
An underground bar and club tucked away next to Embankment tube station. Entrance to the bar is via a staircase to the left of an updoor restaurant, past a cove of couches halfway down the stairs overlooking the venue then unleashed onto the lower levels. Before looking around we head straight for one [...]

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Sherlock Holmes

Slightly set back from the strand this humble little pub drags tourists in like a magnet from the hit series ‘Lost’ and then tears the cash from their wallets like post-it-notes. This place, as humble looking as it is, is in fact overrun with elderly tourists en-route to goodness knows where. Outside there are [...]

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The Old Shades

A rather long pub although narrow- the air is filled with light folk music and the strumming of a distant guitar as people around swig from pint glasses and indulge in cackling conversation. Its not over-popular though which means you may find a seat if you are lucky but the main gift [...]

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Silver Cross

From the outside this pub looks as big as the Wetherspoons on the other side of the road but it most definitely isn’t; its far bigger. It could comfortably hold about 400 people as the pub swings round a bar into a large living room like area on a plateau above the main drinking [...]

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