London Best for Guide

Best For Guide London

Sometimes, we all need a little guidance in where to go. Lucky for you we have dedicated, on-the-pulse reviewers squirming their well-pickled guts out to find the very best of all that the city has to offer you. Whether you're looking for champagne filled oysters atop a bed of gold necklaces or a warm flat lager in a dubiously smelling old man's joint, you'll find the most excellent of everything labelled and signposted for your convenience.

A Cosy Night A Date Alfresco Dining Atmosphere Birthdays Breakfast Business Lunch Celeb spotting Cheap Eats Cocktails DJs Drinks with a view Eye Candy Food Girls night out Hen and Stag Impressing Late Night drinks Live Music Outdoor drinking People Watching Real ale Riverside Drinking Sunday Mornings Sunday Roast Surfing the Web Watching Sport Wine

A Cosy Night

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Best for A Cosy Night

Finding that quiet pub to snuggle up on a leather sofa is the best remedy for mid-hangover lethargy or post-argument irritability. I′ll get the biccies, you get the cocoa.

A Date

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Best for A Date

A chilled bottle of Sancerre is bought to your table as your date laughs uproariously at yet another of your hilarious jokes. Footsie has already begun. All dates could be like this if you pick your venue wisely!

Alfresco Dining

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Best for Alfresco Dining

Go continental and enjoy your tapas outside. Or tuck into a roast in a beer garden. However you do it, eating outside is always more fun.

Atmosphere

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Best for Atmosphere

The crowd is lively and up for it, you've got a fifty burning a hole in your pocket and a fitty has just brushed past your arse. Times like this make you happy just to be alive.

Birthdays

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Best for Birthdays

Hooray! You′re one year older! If the spreading waist, increased lethargy and stinking hangovers were enough to remind you that getting old stinks, then drinking ‘til you pass out will surely make you forget.

Breakfast

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Best for Breakfast

It’s the most important meal of the day. What better excuse to stuff massive amounts of various forms of pork and potato into yourself?

Business Lunch

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Best for Business Lunch

So close to smacking that deal. Just need a nice place to feed ‘em up that oozes class and sophistication. Somewhere with a bit of panache like. This country was built on hearty lunches, and never let you forget that.

Celeb spotting

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Best for Celeb spotting

Isn't that im off the telly? Maybe not, but it does look like him. A bit. Great excuse to use your camera phone for something other than rude snaps though.

Cheap Eats

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Best for Cheap Eats

Towards the end of the month purse strings can feel a little tight. Save badly-needed booze money by eating simple grub that fills the stomach and nourishes the soul.

Cocktails

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Best for Cocktails

Combining grog and fruit juice is surely one of the best ideas humans have ever come up with. Well, that and DrinksIn. The telephone doesn't even get a look in next to these two.

DJs

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Best for DJs

Though amateur attempts at break dancing are amusing and often create injuries worthy of photographs, it′s something best left to the professionals. Dance sensibly at all times to the pounding rhythms of your favourite beat master.

Drinks with a view

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Best for Drinks with a view

Staring out into the vast abyss contemplating the inevitability of death can make a bog standard pint of lager seem weirdly meaningful - and better value for money!

Eye Candy

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Best for Eye Candy

Check you out. It may be tragic to sit and drink whilst throwing some serious looks to members of the opposite sex, but it is fun. And if they just happen to be rather pleasing looking examples, it′s downright addictive.

Food

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Best for Food

Gone are the days when pub grub meant a bowl of three-week old peanuts. Think beyond pickled eggs and scampi fries and you will be justly rewarded.

Girls night out

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Best for Girls night out

Girls just wanna have fun. Well, that and drink until they forget what their name is. And fall into oncoming traffic. Taken en masse, a group of boozing ladies would make a group of Ukrainian sailors blush and excuse themselves.

Hen and Stag

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Best for Hen and Stag

Better than the day itself for many of the participants, hen and stags hold a special place in many peoples′ hearts. When else do you get to vilely abuse your friends and then get thanked for it?

Impressing

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Best for Impressing

Blowing the socks off your date or mate guarantees the start of something special, so make sure that you get ′em down to somewhere with a bit of va-va-voom.

Late Night drinks

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Best for Late Night drinks

The bell has tolled, but you′re in no mood to go home. Conversation is flowing and hilarious, and it′d be simply criminal to end the night now.

Live Music

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Best for Live Music

Nodding heads and tapping feet work in a strange and beautiful harmony with a pint of something cold and fizzy. The noise fills the awkward silences too!

Outdoor drinking

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Best for Outdoor drinking

Some of our finest memories are surely forged around rectangular wooden tables, warm beer in hands, slowly watching the faces of loved ones turn red and blistered.

People Watching

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Best for People Watching

Sometimes, all you want to do is sit back admire the view and watch the world go by. From towering vista′s to riverside gems check the best your city has to offer here.

Real ale

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Best for Real ale

The deep, nutty hoppiness of a stout pulled fresh out the barrel has no comparison within the wonderful world of booze. Just mind out for stray beard hairs and bits of woolly jumper.

Riverside Drinking

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Best for Riverside Drinking

Go on - dive right in! Maybe not. I think I just saw a disposable nappy. But it′s nice to just sit and drink and watch the water flow right past.

Sunday Mornings

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Best for Sunday Mornings

The pain, the pain. I′d give anything to shake off that ringing headache and cloying sickness. A cup of coffee, the Sunday Times and a couple of hours should do it.

Sunday Roast

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Best for Sunday Roast

The great British institution of meat and vegetables served on the Sabbath is going to be with us for a while. Getting it right is damn hard, but when it happens, magic is real and Santa exists.

Surfing the Web

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Best for Surfing the Web

Desperate to check your e-mails? Don't stress. Rather than fiddle on street corners with your flash new phone, sit down with a drink and browse the hours away.

Watching Sport

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Best for Watching Sport

Watching sport in a venue with a good atmosphere is just like going to the match itself, except without the financial kidney punch, stinking offal pies and threatening teenagers.

Wine

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Best for Wine

Will yours be a beefy Cab Sauv or a delicate little Pinot Grigio? A sort of wine can be chosen to fit almost any mood you can think of, and you look dead sophisticated.


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