‘It was more than a pub’ – the story of five boozers forced to call last orders | Pubs

‘It was more than a pub’ – the story of five boozers forced to call last orders | Pubs

The smoking area takes over the whole pavement. Inside everyone shouts and screams along to the karaoke, clinging to each other on the dancefloor. Every inch of the bar at the Lillie... Read more »
Historic London Pub Has Been Saved From Closure

Historic London Pub Has Been Saved From Closure

In a huge victory for pub culture, one of the UK’s most beloved boozers has just been saved from closure after a successful campaign to save it from a licence review. The... Read more »
Goodbye WFH, hello WFP (that’s working from pub) this winter | Pubs

Goodbye WFH, hello WFP (that’s working from pub) this winter | Pubs

In the historic Cutty Sark pub in Greenwich, south-east London, the cat Mahela purrs and curls up by the bar, a coffee machine hisses and a cluster of heads are studiously bowed... Read more »
2022 Great British Pub Award winners

2022 Great British Pub Award winners

Owned by Sally Harris, a former art teacher turned licensee, took the top prize after putting her own flair on the 17th​ century pub. Harris and her team have given this pub... Read more »
How to take over a local East End pub (and not ruin it)

How to take over a local East End pub (and not ruin it)

All over the capital, pubs are closing. Some because of lockdowns, some because they were shit, some because they failed to adapt. The traditional London boozer has had to reinvent itself. Most... Read more »
Near the Greenwich pub where the mini-budget was born, Londoners share their fears | Mini-budget 2022

Near the Greenwich pub where the mini-budget was born, Londoners share their fears | Mini-budget 2022

“All the worst ideas happen at the pub, don’t they?” said Brett Lucas as he sat on a park bench in Greenwich Park, south-east London with his girlfriend Becky Nolan, a 25-year-old... Read more »
London: Hunt for man who exposed himself at pub and made rape threats

London: Hunt for man who exposed himself at pub and made rape threats

The man police would like to speak to in connection with the incident (Picture: Metropolitan Police) A man exposed himself to a teenager at a pub in central London before making rape... Read more »
Man charged with attempted murder following Hornchurch pub stabbing

Man charged with attempted murder following Hornchurch pub stabbing

NewsCrime A 23-year-old man was stabbed several times in the pub garden of the Fatling, in Hornchurch, at around midnight on July 23. Friday, 2nd September 2022, 10:25 am Philip Kemps, 29,... Read more »
The Baring, London N1: ‘A benchmark of where pub dining is heading’ – restaurant review | Food

The Baring, London N1: ‘A benchmark of where pub dining is heading’ – restaurant review | Food

En route to the recently revamped The Baring in Islington, I wondered if we need a newer, better word for “gastropub”, not least because nobody ever liked that word anyway. In the... Read more »
Knives and drugs sold from behind the bar of family-run east London pub, police say

Knives and drugs sold from behind the bar of family-run east London pub, police say

K nives and drugs were sold from behind the bar of a family-run east London pub, police have alleged. The Met said it had also received intelligence that shotguns were “rented out”... Read more »