The Last Rounds Project wants to know - what is your favorite London pub/bar and why?

The Florist on Globe Road, Bethnal Green.

Great eastend boozer with an edge to it.

Posted over 2 years ago by Gordy

I quite like the The Cat’s Back in Putney. Why? Because you can fall over without anyone being the slightest bit bothered. Oh, and because it’s a very decent pub.

Posted over 2 years ago by sticky

I second The Cat’s Back. It’s one of the few pubs that actually made me want to move home to be nearer to it.

But instead I moved to sodding New Malden.

Posted over 2 years ago by BraveNewMalden

how about the Wilmington Arms on Rosebery Avenue, just up from Mount Pleasant sorting office.

In an ocean of trendiness since the gentrification of Exmouth Market, the Wilmers (as we used to call it) remains defiantly boozer-like. Plus, you can play pool and darts there, which has to be a recommendation in London!

Posted over 2 years ago by robram

Duke of Devonshire in Balham, because it has a lovely garden and sitting in a pub garden on a sunny day is my idea of heaven.

Posted over 2 years ago by mollusk

mollusk – I find the benches a bit uncomfortable.

I’d vote for the Duke of Dev purely on the strength of the Christmas decorations.

Posted over 2 years ago by iSleepDiagonal

Time for my weekly plug. (Greases fingers)

Ah, that’s better, now time to plug my favourite pub again. The Castle on Commercial Street. Cheap beers (under £2 a pint), two pool tables and a table football set upstairs, roaring fire, friendly staff (invariably cute as well, but not so achingly that I end up mumbling my order and hating myself in a corner ‘til closing time), open all night at weekends, mixed crowd of all ages and professions, tatty furniture, genuinely interesting shite hanging from the ceiling, and a dartboard. It’s just a shame it’s not really my neck of the woods, or that when I did live round the corner, it was just a regular old man’s pub with nowt special to recommend it.

Posted over 2 years ago by Mockernee

monkey chews. nice dark and cosy with lovely grub.

Posted over 2 years ago by sarge

Microbar in Clapham. Comfortable sofas, a fine array of nuts and over a hundred beers, of which the friendly bar staff are very knowledgeable. BBQs in the new beer garden will be a regular feature over the summer as will the cute,scruffy dog that wanders around. Tonight I shall be over there reading the newspaper with a glass of cherry beer. How very genteel.

Posted over 2 years ago by Sim

Microbar in Clapham. Comfortable sofas, a fine array of nuts and over a hundred beers, of which the friendly bar staff are very knowledgeable. BBQs in the new beer garden will be a regular feature over the summer as will the cute,scruffy dog that wanders around. Tonight I shall be over there reading the newspaper with a glass of cherry beer. How very genteel.

Posted over 2 years ago by Sim

Crown and Sceptre aka the Spade and Shovel aka the Ball and Garter in the Bush. Rah rah luuuvely rah rah breeelint rah rah nosh nosh rah rah boooooz. I shall let the sodden hivemind of Beer in the Evening speak for it:

“A hidden gem in the toilet that is this area.”

“Any “unsavoury” chracters in there have often been asked to leave as soon as it looked like other customers were looking uncomfortable.”

“I ordered a fish & chips and out came Moby Dick in batter.”

Posted over 2 years ago by comradem

Page Two in Nunhead. Because I DJ there obviously, but also because it is the friendliest place in the world – it’s absolutely inevitable that people from different tables will be mingling together (and dancing together, often on the tables) by 1.30am. It’s been done up but in ‘vibe’ it is still a Proper Boozer.

The Herne Tavern, East Dulwich. Because the food is AWESOME, the garden is landscaped all lovely (if you don’t mind 5,000 kids belting around the place it’s the best place to spend a summer afternoon) and it’s also friendly.

Franklins, also in East Dulwich. Because it looks nice and rustic, it’s small, and the food is also absolutely sublime.

Posted over 2 years ago by Knid

Defectors Weld in Shepherds Bush – good music, nice decor, decent beer and satisfying beer The Rocket in Acton – kinda like Defectors but smaller, further out of town, less trendy and therefore less busy :)

Posted over 2 years ago by Hilbs

The Cat & Mutton in Broadway Market because of the cute girls. The Charles Lamb in Islington cos of the great food & they’ve got the friendliest put dog ever! The Wheatsheaf in Vauxhall, nice & chilled local and you always get invitation to dodgy clubs under the archers on a friday night. The Blues Bar in Soho, not a pub per se maybe but blues & booze – need I say more??

Posted over 2 years ago by jejej

Thanks for your suggestions so far. Please keep them coming – I will add some of these to Last Rounds when i get home ^_

Posted over 2 years ago by pepsy

Thanks Guys I’ve added most of these to lastrounds.co.uk

Thanks for all your help!

Posted over 2 years ago by pepsy

The Greenwich Inn has:

1. The coldest beer in the world
2. A one eyed cat
3. A juke box with music made by some of the locals
4. A free play pool table

What’s not to like?

Posted over 2 years ago by Ian

The Sutton Arms in Carthusian St. It has beer. A nice quiz on a Wednesday night (which I’ve just come back from), a nice lounge upstairs with big leather sofas and a free juke box. In the middle of the City. And the pints are less than £3 a go. Fuck me, if that isn’t amazing, what is?

They also have a small dachshund that wears a tutu

Posted over 2 years ago by Juvey

I wasn’t that impressed until you mentioned the Dachshund in a tutu.

Posted over 2 years ago by AssumingVakant

A one eyed cat? That sounds all kinds of brilliant. Any chance someone can post a picture? Kudos for the first person to do so!

one eyed cat no depth perception must be crap at jumping on to things

Posted over 2 years ago by Morals