Casual Bars in London

Royal Vauxhall Tavern

Gay mecca in Vauxhall

Indestructible Victorian pub with a singular gay history — including drag performances since the middle of the...

Nominated for Best of GayCities 2023 - Legendary Bar

Vauxhall · 372 Kennington Ln, London

• 30+
• 40+
• 50+
• dancing
• drag
• outdoor seating
• bears
• mixed LGBTQ+
• pub
• $$
• live entertainment
• cabaret
• themed
• casual
• locals
• lively

Shiny-shiny watering hole

Soho's ageing bright young thing (opened June 2011) combines a cocktail ethos and camp mirror ball features with...

Soho · 62 Frith St, London

• outdoor seating
• mixed LGBTQ+
• cocktail lounge
• casual

Buff and beyond

A section of a First World War bunker reinvented as a subterranean gay playground, in the spirit of...

East London · 217 City Rd, Islington, London

• Backroom
• casual
• LGBTQ+ owned

All about the community

London's freshest new gay face of the first half of 2024 is this reinvented south London pub marked by a...

Southeast London · 98 Harper Rd, Elephant and Castle, London

• 20+
• 40+
• 50+
• drag
• outdoor seating
• happy hour
• 18+
• casual
• LGBTQ+ owned

A space for the modern woman

In May 2024 London received a much-need boost with the opening of this haven for those identifying themselves as...

East London · 243 Well Street, Hackney, London

• lesbian
• trans-friendly
• 20+
• 30+
• after work
• cocktail lounge
• $$
• casual
• nightclub
• locals

Queer dive with tons of character

Every night is a party with drag shows, drink specials, and local LGBTQ+ hotties. 

East London · 33 Stoke Newington Rd, London

• 20+
• 30+
• drag
• mixed LGBTQ+
• $$
• live entertainment
• dive
• casual
• nightclub
• locals
• lively

Shop by day / bar by night

A vintage clothing boutique-cum-watering hole with an effortlessly 'cool' name. Old-fashioned trendy. Full...

East London · 352a Mare St, Hackney,

• 18+
• after work
• pub
• casual

Out of the way but not to be ignored

The one-time home of iconic Arts and Crafts Movement textile designer and printer, artist, poet and socialist...

Northeast London · 807-811 Forest Rd, Walthamstow,

• drag
• outdoor seating
• pub
• mixed gay/straight
• $$$
• casual

Ye olde straight-friendly corner pub

A relatively under-the-radar Greenwich pub that started life as a theatre bar in the 19th century and which has been...

Southeast London · 1 Crooms Hill, Greenwich, London

• pub
• mixed gay/straight
• $$
• casual

A new gay bar in 2021!

Hope for the gay scene in the era of COVID arrived in early April 2021 on a busy stretch of road halfway between...

North London · 114 Junction Rd, Islington, London

• 30+
• outdoor seating
• mixed LGBTQ+
• pub
• $$
• live entertainment
• casual
• craft beer