Whether you’re looking to drink cocktails or coffee, enjoy a night out at the pubs, or find some other specialty bars, have a look through the following pages.

• 06 St Chad’s Place

  
  Address: 06 St Chad's Place, London WC1X 9HH
  Telephone: 020 7278 3355
  Website: http://www.6stchadsplace.com
  Description: A great bar tucked away down an alley near King's Cross. Has a lunch menu and tapas in the evening. Friday nights are rocking with a DJ for the afterwork crowd.

• 69 Colebrooke Row

  
  Address: 69 Colebrooke Row, London N1 8AA
  Telephone: 07540 528593
  Website: http://www.69colebrookerow.com/
  Description: Delicious gourmet cocktails in Angel. Has live music, can be a good idea to reserve.

• Allpress Espresso Roastery

  
  Address: 58 Redchurch Street, London E2 7DP
  Telephone: 020 7749 1780
  Website: http://www.uk.allpressespresso.com/
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• Automat

  
  Address: 33 Dover Street, London W1S 4NF
  Telephone: 020 7499 3033
  Website: http://www.automat-london.com/
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• Beas of Bloomsbury

  
  Address: 44 Theobalds Road, London WC1X 8NW
  Telephone: 0207 242 8330
  Website: http://www.beasofbloomsbury.com/
  Description: Afternoon tea is great at this little café just down the road. Forget the Ritz – this is the place to go. Try the meringues

• Bloomsbury Coffee House

  
  Address: 20 Tavistock Place, London WC1H 9RE, (underneath the St Athans Hotel)
  Telephone: 020 7837 2877
  Website: http://www.bloomsburycoffeehouse.co.uk
  Description: A quiet coffee shop with a lot of tables to do work.They offer a breakfast and lunch service. It's within walking distance to UCL and IALS.

• Bounce

  
  Address: 121 Holborn, London EC1N 2TD
  Telephone: 020 3657 6525
  Website: www.bouncepingpong.com/
  Description: The ultimate ping-pong bar, they have over 40 tables (have to be booked in advance at an hourly rate), provide rackets and balls for players. Late evening, whilst keeping the ping-pong players, it turns into a dance bar, with mostly contemporary RnB music. Really amazing and unique place, if you like table tennis it is a must to try. Booking tables is pretty expensive, but they always have a few community ones open for people who just wander in.

• Café 49

  
  Address: 49 Marchmont Street, London WC1N 1AP
  Telephone: 020 3538 3474
  Website:
  Description: This place is 5 minutes walk from Goodenough and has absolutely sensational sandwiches, scrumptious salads, and potent pesto pastas. The coffee is delicious, the staff are friendly and the prices are affordable. Definitely worth a visit folks! #WSHOM

• Callooh Callay

  
  Address: 65 Rivington Street, London EC2A 3AY
  Telephone: 020 7739 4781
  Website: http://www.calloohcallaybar.com
  Description: Cocktail bar on Rivington street in Shoreditch.

• Caravan

  
  Address: Granary Building, Granary Square 1, London
  Telephone: 020 7101 7661
  Website: http://www.caravankingscross.co.uk
  Description: The sister restaurant of the Exmouth market Caravan outpost, this one is in the Granary square restaurant hotspot up by King's Cross. Great for Brunch and coffee. They also do supper.

• Caravan

  
  Address: 11-13 Exmouth Market, London EC1R 4QD
  Telephone: 020 7833 8115
  Website: http://www.caravanonexmouth.co.uk/
  Description: Great spot on Exmouth market for brunch with good coffee. They also do supper.

• Centre Point Sushi

  
  Address: 1st floor, London WC2H 8LN
  Telephone: 020 7240 6147
  Website: http://www.cpfs.co.uk
  Description: Good for the view not for the sushi. At Tottenham Court Road.

• Coffee List

  
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  Website: http://100cups.blogspot.co.uk/p/map.html
  Description: Someone mapped out 315 independent coffee shops across london!

• Continental Stores

  
  Address: 54 Tavistock Place, London WC1H 9RG
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  Website: http://www.storestreetbloomsbury.co.uk/shop-eat/ss-espresso/
  Description: A fabulous coffee shop on Tavistock Place right around the corner from Goodenough. A good selection of sandwiches and excellent coffee. A great study spot (I'm slightly biased I wrote my entire dissertation here - the barristas are friendly and wonderful!) Is the sister shop of Store Street Espresso not far away.

• Copita

  
  Address: 27 d'Arblay Street, London W1F 8EP
  Telephone: 020 7287 7797
  Website: http://www.copita.co.uk/
  Description: Some of the best gin in London! Plus some great wines and amazing tapas. Great place to go with friends and share your food. Also a good date spot. Lots of delicious tapas! I would recommend the goats cheese, sweet potatoes, pumpkin, and hake. They specialise in gin and have a whole menu dedicated to gin and tonic. Food shared between 4 and a G&T each set us back 20 pounds each.

• Department of Coffee and Social Affairs

  
  Address: 14-16 Leather Lane, London EC1N 7SU
  Telephone: 020 7419 6906
  Website: http://www.departmentofcoffee.co.uk
  Description: Another good coffee shop on Leather Lane within walking distance of the college. Good for studying as well.

• Drink Shop Do

  
  Address: 9 Caledonian Road, London N1 9DX
  Telephone: 020 7278 4335
  Website: http://www.drinkshopdo.com
  Description: During the day, Drink Shop Do is a coffee shop with yummy cakes. In the evening it hosts a range of activities and then turns into a great dance spot. Nice and close by King's Cross.

• Drink,Shop & Do

  
  Address: 9 Caledonian road, N1 9DX, London
  Telephone: 447477673981
  Website: www.drinkshopdo.com
  Description: Design shop and café bar selling products from emerging designers alongside vintage furniture. Workshops,events,dance floor and bar.

• Duke of York Pub

  
  Address: 7 Roger Street, London WC1N 2PB
  Telephone: 020 7242 7230
  Website: http://www.dukepub.co.uk/
  Description: Small art deco pub down Doughty mews behind London house.

• Espresso Room

  
  Address: 31-35 Great Ormond Street, London WC1N 3HZ
  Telephone: 0776 071 4883
  Website: http://www.theespressoroom.com/
  Description: A great local independent coffee spot on Great Ormond Street. Limited opening hours (weekdays only) and teeny tiny but they really know about coffee.

• Euston Tap

  
  Address: 190 Euston Road, London NW1 2EF
  Telephone: 020 3137 8837
  Website: http://www.eustontap.com/
  Description: Good pub near the College up on Euston Road near UCL.

• Experimental Cocktail Club

  
  Address: 13a Gerrard Street, London W1D 5PS
  Telephone: 020 7434 3559
  Website: http://www.chinatownecc.com/
  Description: Cocktail bar in Chinatown hidden behind an unmarked red door. Excellent quality cocktails with unsual twists. Five pound cover charge after 11 pm, open very late. Best to reserve if anymore than 2 people.

• Fork

  
  Address: 85 Marchmont Street, London WC1N 1AL
  Telephone: 020­ 7387 2860
  Website: http://www.forkdeli.co.uk
  Description: Coffee shop on Marchmont street right around the corner from Goodenough.

• Fortnum & Mason

  
  Address: 181 Piccadilly, London W1A 1ER
  Telephone: 020 7734 8040
  Website: http://www.fortnumandmason.com
  Description: Grand store on Picadilly street. Delcious shortbread, marmelade and afternoon tea, as well as general visual wonderment. Reach with the 38 or 19 bus.

• Frank’s Café and Campari Bar

  
  Address: 10th Floor, Peckham Multi-Story Carpark, 95A Rye Lane, London SE15 4ST
  Telephone: (none)
  Website: http://www.frankscafe.org.uk
  Description: Rooftop bar in Peckham at the top of a carpark. Great ambiance, during the summer only.

• Freud

  
  Address: 198 Shaftesbury Ave, London, WC2H 8JL
  Telephone: 020 7240 9933
  Website: http://www.freud.eu/
  Description: Cocktail bar off Shaftesbury that has a decidely 80's punkish spirit. Good music.

• Full Stop Bar

  
  Address: 202 Brick Lane, London E1 6SA
  Telephone: 020 7739 7086
  Website: http://www.yelp.co.uk/biz/full-stop-bar-london
  Description: Good coffee shop to get some work done on Brick Lane if you're in the area. Serves drinks at night.

• Half Cup

  
  Address: 100-102 Judd St,London, WC1H 9NT
  Telephone: 02086117835
  Website: http://www.halfcup.co.uk/
  Description: I love the space for studying and having some drinks after. It is very artistic in terms of decoration. Staff is friendly and they have good coffee. Not many outlets though.

• Happiness Forgets

  
  Address: 8-9 Hoxton Square, London, N1 6NU
  Telephone: 020 7613 0325
  Website: http://www.happinessforgets.com
  Description: Excellent cocktail bar in Shoreditch.

• Harp

  
  Address: 47 Chandos Place, London WC2N 4HS
  Telephone: 020 7836 0291
  Website: http://www.harpcoventgarden.com/
  Description: Pub in Covent Garden voted best pub in the country.

• Jerusalem Tavern

  
  Address: 55 Britton Street, London EC1M 5UQ
  Telephone: 020 7490 4281
  Website: http://www.stpetersbrewery.co.uk
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• Kaffeine

  
  Address: 66 Great Titchfield Street, London W1W 7QJ
  Telephone: 020 7580 6755
  Website: http://www.kaffeine.co.uk/
  Description: A good coffee shop in Marylebone not far from Oxford circus.

• Knight’s Templar Pub

  
  Address: 95 Chancery Lane, London WC2A 1DT
  Telephone: 020 7831 2660
  Website: http://www.jdwetherspoon.co.uk
  Description: Pub near the Courts of Justice with good beer. Is full of barristers until 7 o’clock, but then is empty.

• Lantana

  
  Address: 13 Charlotte Place, London W1T 1SN
  Telephone: 020 7637 3347
  Website: http://www.lantanacafe.co.uk/
  Description: A good brunch place in Fitzrovia just off Goodge street on Charlotte Place with equally good coffee.

• London Cocktail Club

  
  Address: 224a Shaftesbury Ave, London WC2H 8EB
  Telephone: 020 7580 1960
  Website: http://www.londoncocktailclub.co.uk
  Description: Another good cocktail bar with a few locations around London. Head over on Mondays for 2 for 1 deals.

• London Cocktail Club

  
  Address: 61 Goodge Street, London W1T 1TL
  Telephone: 020 7580 1960
  Website: http://www.londoncocktailclub.co.uk
  Description: Another good cocktail bar with a few locations around London. Head over on Mondays for 2 for 1 deals.

• London Review of Books bookshop

  
  Address: 14 Bury Place, London WC1A 2JL
  Telephone: 020 7269 9030
  Website: http://www.lrbshop.co.uk/cakeshop
  Description: Inviting book shop near the British Museum with a café that serves up a great variety of teas and delicious cakes. Welcoming atmosphere to sit down and peruse the books on sale.

• Lounge Bohemia

  
  Address: 1E Great Eastern Street, EC2A 3E1
  Telephone: 0772 070 7000
  Website: http://www.loungebohemia.com
  Description: Microgastromony drinks in Shoreditch. Reserve in advance.

• Lumen

  
  Address: 88 Tavistock Place, London WC1H 9RS
  Telephone: 020 7278 2203
  Website: http://www.lumenurc.org.uk/lumencafe.htm
  Description: Café with ethically sourced food right around the corner from the College.

• Mayor of Scaredy Cat Town

  
  Address: Artillery Lane, London E1 7LS
  Telephone: 020 7078 9639
  Website: http://www.themayorofscaredycattown.com/
  Description: Speakeasy cocktail bar behind a refrigerator in the Shoreditch Breakfast Club. Ask to see the mayor.

• Monmouth Coffee Shop

  
  Address: 27 Monmouth Street, Covent Garden, London WC2H 9EU
  Telephone: 020 7232 3010
  Website: http://www.monmouthcoffee.co.uk/our-shops/covent-garden
  Description: Want to buy good coffee? Missing your Colombian dark roast medium ground? Very good quality and variety of coffee and they will grind it for you for your specific coffee machine.

• Nightjar

  
  Address: 129 City Road, London EC1V 1JB
  Telephone: 020 7253 4101
  Website: http://www.barnightjar.com/
  Description: Great cocktail bar off Old Street roundabout with meticulous attention to detail and amazing presentation. Has live music on some nights. Amazing cocktails! (held to be one of the best bars in the world...) It pays off to book early.

• Notes Music & Coffee

  
  Address: 31 St Martin's Lane, London WC2N 4ER
  Telephone: 020 7240 0424
  Website: http://www.notes-uk.co.uk/
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• Notes Music & Coffee

  
  Address: 36 Wellington Street, London WC2E 7BD
  Telephone: 020 7240 7899
  Website: http://www.notes-uk.co.uk/
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• Orchard Kitchen

  
  Address: 11 Sicilian Avenue, London WC1A 2QH
  Telephone: 020 7831 2715
  Website: http://www.orchard-kitchen.co.uk
  Description: Posh vegetarian - food is great. One to go to for a birthday treat. They have three other venues locally.

• Ozone Coffee Roasters

  
  Address: 11 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4AQ
  Telephone: 020 7490 1039
  Website: http://www.ozonecoffee.co.uk/
  Description: Great coffee and lunch place off Old Street in Clerkenwell. Big tables to do work at as well.

• Paramount

  
  Address: Centre Point, 101-103 New Oxford Street, London WC1A 1DD
  Telephone: 020 7420 2900
  Website: http://www.paramount.uk.net/
  Description: Good for drinks with a 360 degree view of London.

• Postcard Teas

  
  Address: DERING STREET, NEW BOND STREET. LONDON W1S 1AG
  Telephone: 0207 629 3654
  Website: http://www.postcardteas.com/site/
  Description: Beautiful little shop specialising in unusual types of tea from small farms. They hold tea tastings every Saturday morning, book them through the website. There are also other events and their Instagram is lovely! https://www.instagram.com/postcardteas/

• Prufrock

  
  Address: 23-25 Leather Lane, London EC1N 7TE
  Telephone: 020 7242 0467
  Website: http://www.prufrockcoffee.com/
  Description: Great coffee on Leather Lane within walking distance of the college. Good for studying as well.

• Seven Stars

  
  Address: 53-54 Carey Street, London WC2A 2JB
  Telephone: 020 7242 8521
  Website: http://www.pubs.com/main_site/pub_details.php?pub_id=207
  Description: A quirky pub behind the Royal Courts of Justice with a cat and great food.

• Shoreditch Grind

  
  Address: 213 Old Street, London EC1V 9NR
  Telephone: 020 7490 7490
  Website: http://www.shoreditchgrind.com/
  Description: Good coffee shop on the edge of the Old street roundabout. Two other locations in Soho and Holborn. Also does cocktails in the evening.

• Soho Whisky Bar

  
  Address: 42 Old Compton Street, London W1D 4LR
  Telephone: 020 7018 1168
  Website: http://www.sohowhiskybar.com/
  Description: The place to go for Japanese whiskys. Located underneath Bincho in Soho.

• Southampton Arms

  
  Address: 139 Highgate Road, London NW5 1LE
  Telephone: 0795 878 0073
  Website: http://www.thesouthamptonarms.co.uk/
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• St Pancras Champagne Bar

  
  Address: Grand Terrace, Upper Concourse, St Pancras International Station, Pancras Road, London N1C 4QL
  Telephone: 020 7870 9900
  Website: http://searcys.co.uk/venues/st-pancras-grand/#.UlRvzJWsbww
  Description: Fancy champagne bar at the newly refurbished St Pancras station.

• Store Street Espresso

  
  Address: 40 Store Street, London WC1E 7DB
  Telephone: 020 7637 2623
  Website: http://www.storestreetbloomsbury.co.uk/shop-eat/ss-espresso/
  Description: A great coffee shop on Store Street near the UCL and LSHTM campuses as well as Senate House. Is the sister shop of Continental Stores on Tavistock place. Nice independent - good choice after the British Museum or an Oxford Street shop. Brownies to die for.

• The Attendant

  
  Address: Downstairs, 27a Foley Street, London W1W 6DY
  Telephone: 0207 637 3794
  Website: http://www.the-attendant.com/
  Description: Coffee in an old Victorian urinal in Fitzrovia. They have kept the old fittings. Very small and busy. I've only coffee but I know friends have had cocktails...

• The Blue Lion

  
  Address: 133 Gray's Inn Road, London WC1X 8TU
  Telephone: 020 7405 4422
  Website: http://www.the-blue-lion.co.uk/
  Description: Pub on Gray's Inn near Goodenough. Friendly.

• The Bree Louise

  
  Address: 69 Cobourg Street, London NW1 2HH
  Telephone: 020 7681 4930
  Website: http://www.thebreelouise.com/
  Description: Pub with a very wide selection of ciders and other specialty beers. Near the vegetarian curry houses around the corner on Drummond street.

• The Craft Beer Co.

  
  Address: 82 Leather Lane, London EC1N 7TR
  Telephone: (none)
  Website: http://www.thecraftbeerco.com
  Description: Craft beer pub with a number of locations throughout the city.

• The Craft Beer Co.

  
  Address: 55 White Lion Street, London N1 9PP
  Telephone: (none)
  Website: http://www.thecraftbeerco.com
  Description: Craft beer pub with a number of locations throughout the city.

• The Dovetail

  
  Address: 24/28 Broadway Market, London E8 4QJ
  Telephone: 020 7275 7617
  Website: http://dovepubs.com/
  Description: Belgian food. Soups, stews, moules frites and so on. Makes Belgo look positively common.The beer selection is vast as well. Located on trendy Broadway market.

• The Eagle

  
  Address: 2 Shepherdess Walk, London N1 7LB
  Telephone: 020 7250 0507
  Website: http://www.theeaglehoxton.co.uk/
  Description: Pub with a good beer garden and good food.

• The Fourth Wall

  
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  Website: http://www.whereisthefourthwall.com/
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• The Grenadier Pub

  
  Address: 18 Wilton Row, London SW1X 7NR
  Telephone: 020 7235 3074
  Website: http://www.taylor-walker.co.uk/pub/grenadier-belgrave-square/c0800/
  Description: Reputed to be the most haunted pub in London.

• The Gunmaker’s

  
  Address: 13 Eyre Street Hill, London EC1R 5ET
  Telephone: 020 7278 1022
  Website: http://thegunmakers.co.uk/
  Description: Trendy pub in Clerkenwell with good food.

• The Harrison

  
  Address: 28 Harrison Street, London WC1H 8JF
  Telephone: 020 7278 3966
  Website: http://www.harrisonbar.co.uk/
  Description: Pub behind the College on Harrison street. Delicious food. Live music on Sundays.

• The Lady Otteline

  
  Address: 11A Northington Street, London WC1N 2JF
  Telephone: 020 7831 0008
  Website: http://www.theladyottoline.com/
  Description: Gastropub on Doughty street down the street from Goodenough.

• The Lamb

  
  Address: 94 Lamb’s Conduit Street, London WC1N 3LZ
  Telephone: 020 7405 0713
  Website: http://www.youngs.co.uk/pubs/lamb‎
  Description: The local pub on Lamb's Conduit just around the corner from the College.

• The Marquis de Cornwallis

  
  Address: 31 Marchmont Street, London WC1N 1AP
  Telephone: 020 7278 8355
  Website: http://www.themarquiscornwalliswc1.co.uk/
  Description: Pub just past the Brunswick centre on Marchmont street. Good food and a good selection of alcohol.

• The Olde Citte of Yorke

  
  Address: 22 High Holborn, London WC1V 6BN
  Telephone: 020 7242 7670
  Website: http://www.timeout.com/london/bars-pubs/cittie-of-yorke
  Description: Pub on High Holborn near Chancery Lane with lovely booths and woodwork that give it a medieval feel.

• The Spaniards Inn

  
  Address: Spaniards Road, Hampstead, London NW3 7JJ
  Telephone: 020 8731 8406
  Website: http://www.thespaniardshampstead.co.uk/
  Description: A pub to try when spending the day up at Hampstead Heath.

• The Wallace Restaurant

  
  Address: The Wallace Collection, Hertford House, Manchester Square, London W1U 3BN
  Telephone: 020 7563 9505
  Website: http://peytonandbyrne.co.uk/the-wallace-restaurant/index.html
  Description: Tea room within the Wallace Collection - beautiful space. Great for afternoon tea or breakfast but they also do dinner a couple of nights a week. The Wallace Collection itself is a museum.

• Victoria & Albert Museum

  
  Address: Cromwell Gardens, London SW7 2RL
  Telephone: 020 7942 2000
  Website: http://www.vam.ac.uk
  Description: World renowned free museum in South Ken. Find the beautiful café to enjoy afternoon tea. Hosts lates the last Friday of every month with activities and special events.

• Wiltons

  
  Address: 1 Graces Alley (off Ensign Street), London, E1 8JB
  Telephone: 020 7702 2789
  Website: http://www.wiltons.org.uk
  Description: Atmospheric bar in an old music hall. Has shows as well.

• Workshop Coffee

  
  Address: 27 Clerkenwell Road, London EC1M 5RN
  Telephone: 020 7253 5754
  Website: http://www.workshopcoffee.com
  Description: Great place for brunch in Clerkenwell with delicious coffee.

• Worship Street Whistling Shop

  
  Address: 63 Worship Street, London EC2A 2DU
  Telephone: 020 7247 0015
  Website: http://www.whistlingshop.com
  Description: Another speakeasy, cool underground bar in Shoreditch which distills it's own liquors. The cocktails are really creative and tasty. For example, you can get a peunut butter and strawberry jam bourbon drink.

• Zetter Town House

  
  Address: 86-88 Clerkenwell Road, St John's Square, London EC1M 5RJ
  Telephone: 020 7324 4444
  Website: http://www.thezettertownhouse.com
  Description: A cocktail bar in Clerkenwell, the sister bar of 69 Colebroke row. Part of the Zetter Hotel which also houses Bistro Bruno Loubet.