The gastropub.

The rooms, best first

• The Devonshireverified

  Ranked first in the 2026 Estrella Damm Top 50 Gastropubs, with a wood ember grill above a Guinness bar.

• Marksman Public Houseverified

  Ranked twenty-third in 2026, and Lee Tiernan calls its beef and barley bun one of the best bites in London.

• The French Houseverified

  Ranked forty-seventh in 2026, in the seven-table room Fergus Henderson opened above the bar in 1992.

• The Harwood Armsverified

  London's only Michelin-starred gastropub, an 1866 beer house serving venison off the chef-owner's own herd.

• The Plimsollverified

  Left the boozer intact, peeling ceiling and Guinness included, and shuts the kitchen on matchdays.

• The Camberwell Armsverified

  Time Out ranked it London's best gastropub in June 2026, with bread, pickles and smoked fish made in-house.

• The Waterman's Armsverified

  Ranked thirty-third in 2026, with Sam Andrews on the fire and Sunday roasts priced for two.

• The Anchor & Hopeverified

  The trade press put it top of the gastropub poll two years running, on a menu rewritten every service.

• The Compton Armsverified

  Runs its kitchen as a chef residency, and four of the five tenants left to open their own rooms.

• Canton Armsverified

  Ranked eleventh in the 2026 Top 50 Gastropubs, and the front bar presses foie gras toasties after dark.

• The Pelicanverified

  Sends a lobster and monkfish pie built for two, in a room that spent 150 years an ordinary boozer.

• The Baringverified

  Ranked seventeenth in the Top 50 Gastropubs two years running, on Rob Tecwyn's Moro-trained quail shish.

• The Anglesea Armsverified

  Opened its dining room in 1995, in the first wave of London gastropubs after The Eagle.

• The Drapers Armsverified

  Rewrites the menu daily and hosts Glandstonebury, its own annual festival of offal cookery.

• The Axeverified

  The Sunday roast runs from noon until it sells out, next to two or three changing casks.

• The Pig and Butcherverified

  Breaks down whole animals in a purpose-built butcher's room in the basement, on the old Smithfield drove road.

• The Tamil Princeverified

  A Desi pub where Prince Durairaj, formerly of Roti King, rolls roti for people drinking pints at the bar.

• The Parakeet Pubverified

  The front half stays a drinking pub and two Brat-trained cooks work a custom fire grill behind it.

• The Bullverified

  Lobster and crab croquettes the reviewer called near faultless, and a sausage roll built for an afternoon pint.

• The Chalk Freehouseverified

  Tom De Keyser came down from Marlow with the Kerridge repertoire, and the bar still serves drinkers.

• The Duke Organicverified

  A pub kitchen buying from organic growers and cooking whatever they send that week.