THE BEST HIDDEN LONDON PUBS

[@patdevine59]

wish this was not as rushed, would have loved a longer look at the places mentioned. It is hard to take it all in and work out where the places are.

[@GRSG]

In the Sherlock Holmes pub, go to the upstairs restaurant where Conan Doyle's office has been preserved.
My favorite hidden pub is the Prospect of Whitby on the river in Wapping. Not easy to find.
Finally any pub that serves Theakston's best bitter is a GOOD pub. That beer is the bee's knees!

[@dinerouk]

Theakston's A good Yorkshire ale!

[@davidpeters6536]

Yes The Prospect is a great pub.

[@vinceramone6080]

Whenever i'm in London, I head for the "Cittie of Yorke" in High Holborn. Cavernous pub built in the 1920s but with characterful older features, a long bar and wooden booths...Fab pub, love it!

[@Sunny_in_London]

Wow! I haven't heard of it, but my husband just said he thinks it past the Penderel's Oak. Any chance you might know if that's true? We'll be near that area tomorrow and may give it a go ;-) (And thank you for watching and taking the time to comment!)

[@vinceramone6080]

It's near Chancery Lane Tube Station, that's all i know...I'll be in there come November, long time to wait i know..Cheers Sunny..Keep up the good work!

[@Sunny_in_London]

Thank you! My husband supplies a lot of the local content. If you're near there, I featured a cool pub in our 'London Pub Crawl with Hollywood History', the Knight's Templar. Pictures and info are here: sunnyinlondon.com/london-pub-crawl-hollywood-history/ It attracts a lot of solicitors and bankers, but it's a gorgeous pub.

[@allenlilley1508]

No pub in the city is in jurisdiction of London Metropolitan Police. The city as it's own police force.

[@ChalcedonXXX]

I like that pub. It is built to a Victorian type design with booths.

[@studogable]

Funny you start at the Admiralty. I stumbled in there after the changing of the guard when I was in London three years ago. Great food, great service, and they love that cannon downstairs. I guess it's part of a chain, so travel snobs look down on it, but I found the place smashing.

[@warmbeerfreezone]

The Pride of Spitalfields....a free house on a side street near Liverpool St staton, one of my favourite old school pubs full of charm and good booze ❤️🍺❤️

[@sixteenstringjack]

great proper pub :-)

[@douglasbrown5329]

In Bloomsbury, there is a very nice pub called The Lamb (not far from Russell Square tube stop). Not very fancy, but it is small and has a cozy feel to it.

[@Sunny_in_London]

Yes! Thank you for adding it. I have been there with my husband. I lived of Great Russell Street for some time so it was kind of close. :-)

[@WOLFROY47]

you did a lot of name dropping, but, you didn't actually show us the inside of any of those pubs. and the reason that there so rare is because you've replaced them, with corporate run wine bars. real pubs had individual character and sawdust on the floor not posh carpet and complaints to the working class man ( hoy, you can't come in here, with your work clothes on, making a mess of my carpet. it took me ten minutes to hoover that )

[@Sunny_in_London]

Thank you for the feedback. I have recently published a pub crawl for King’s Cross that was based upon my husband’s recommendations. He and his entire family are London born. Perhaps that might interest you? It features a mix of ‘corporate run wine bars’ and proper old boozers. What pubs would you recommend instead of those featured in this video?

[@lawrencelewis8105]

I've been to all of these and they are great pubs. I recommend the Wenlock Arms. Also, Dr. Johnson's house is across the courtyard from the Cheshire Cheese and there is a statue of his cat, Hodge, in the square.

[@PostcardAndAPint]

Thanks for the recommendations. We spent a lovely afternoon exploring Fleet Street pubs. We will definitely check some of these out next time we’re in London.

[@Sunny_in_London]

Fantastic! Any specific Fleet Street pubs you would recommend?

[@PostcardAndAPint]

@@Sunny_in_London we did, The George, The Cheshire Cheese and Blackfriars (not officially Fleet Street!) - it was super quiet!

[@maximushornet]

Sherlock pub at the end ..was literally round the corner where u filmed that lol .. not great on directions tips tbh

[@anitk.brahma7354]

Love you and your beautiful channel. Thank you.

[@David-pt8ge]

Not so much hidden, but not on the tourist trail, have you tried the pubs along Wapping High Street that runs a long the river towards Canary Wharf? Lots of historical dockland buildings, nestled next to all the apartment buildings. If you have not already been. Food is ok, but the ambience, history and river make it a relaxing afternoon. Best early Sunday, when you can spend a few hours getting a bit merry and have a walk around. There is a dockland station that connects into the tube map.

[@abefroman6370]

Ye Old Mitre can’t be beat!

[@markwhalebone751]

The Anchor Tap Horsleydown, right by Tower Bridge on the Bermondsey end. Also a good one for Colonials is the Mayflower in Rotherhithe. It's on the Thames and in front of St Mary's where I believe the Master of the Mayflower boat that did that Atlantic trip is buried.

[@koont666]

The dove Hammersmith

[@herbertdeniro]

0:30 little lad falling into the fountain^^

[@allenlilley1508]

The smallest and hardest pub in central London to find must be the Nell Gwynne Tavern.
1-2 Bull Inn Court, The Strand.

[@Sunny_in_London]

Allen Lilley hi Allen. We agree. However, about a year ago we tried to go there and it seemed closed. Perhaps it has reopened? I did want to include it in this pub crawl since it is so close to where I shot the video. Any info you have is appreciated! Thank you so much for watching and taking time to comment :-)

[@m.h.1593]

I really love your videos! Thank you so much for all your tips. I'm reorganizing my itinerary now based on your advice lol

[@Sunny_in_London]

Fantastic! Please feel free to email me your itinerary and I can send you feedback or additional ideas. Let me know your priorities for your visit and I will send you thoughts based on my living in London experience. My husband (the blog's resident beer expert and London born 'consultant') can help too! sunny at sunny in london.com

[@m.h.1593]

Sunny London oh thank you so much. How may I contact you through email?

[@LawrenceBray]

The grenadier is an absolute gem of a pub. It’s so English. You could place it anywhere in a big city and it would feel like you’re in the English countryside, place it in the countryside and it would fit in perfectly 😊

[@ianlaurenson4729]

The Henley Arms near the City airport .in Silvertown is a great pub i am sure you and Mr Sunny would have a great evening and fine dining experience

[@WORKERS.DREADNOUGHT]

The George in Southwark, Grapes in Limehouse, Pillars of Hercules off Tottenham Court Road - troubl is you dont go somewhere for a while & when you go back its been converted ibto flats

[@fasthracing]

The Ten Bells were victims of and possibly even Jack the Ripper drunk.

[@studogable]

Aye. It's very tastefully done now.

[@Jammo1978]

What's the point of this video if you never went in them and they aren't really hidden 🤔

[@lesroberts3226]

The ship and shovel is behind the Sherlock Holmes and it’s split into two halves of a Victorian path. It’s really beautiful.👍

[@Sunny_in_London]

Cheers! Appreciate the suggestion and will have to check it out. 👍🏻

[@lesroberts3226]

@@Sunny_in_London hello sunny, did you have a look at the ship and shovel on UA-cam yet? 👍

[@Sunny_in_London]

Not yet! We haven’t been in that area recently. Will try to visit soon!

[@llwyde1104]

Did Fuller's pay for this? Genuine question

[@Sunny_in_London]

Thank you for watching. I’ve only been paid for one of my videos and I indicate which one in the video. They did offer a complimentary lunch. Mr Sunny and I just really love their pubs and think the food is great at them. We also recommend a few other brands for pub lunches based on our experiences in the blog and other videos.

[@glastonbury4304]

Well it was going to be Fuller's or Young's for the good pubs in London, all the rest unless independent are not as hidden...and quite frankly not as good, Young's still deliver their beer by horse and dray near me...

[@leebardoe5180]

Samuel Pepys and the old doctor Butler's Head. These are only open during the week.

[@Sunny_in_London]

Thanks for adding ideas!

[@joeblogs4701]

Hi, nice videos. Try The Cheshire Cheese in an alley in Fleet Street. Quite ancient, Dr Johnson (wrote the first English Dictionary) used it as his local around 1750. There are about 3 levels of cellars below it which are open.

[@davidpeasley]

(Admittedly from one living in South Carolina, why should one take my advice? but ... I understand that, so one ought see for ones self.) Agreed on both counts, Joe; I've only been to London once, but Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese was brilliant. Inexpensive, full of history, a bit hard to find but well worth a visit. We're headed to London in a couple of weeks and I'll be taking my mates for a visit.

[@joeblogs4701]

Thanks Dave. While at the Chesire Cheese I can also recommend 'The Blackfriars', about 12 minutes walk away opposite Blackfriars station. I think it was built around 1910, but the decor is indescribable. Don't miss it, but do not go on a weekday lunchtime as it is very popular with the office crowd.

[@davidpeasley]

I'll give it a go, Joe! Thanks! Cheers

[@liuzhou]

Not hidden at all. Easy to find. And Johnson's dictionary was not the first, by a long shot.

[@499PUCK]

The Grenadine, was the originator of the Bloody Mary. It also served as the officers mess for Wellinton. You can also ask for playing cards from the bar.

[@albertgrant1017]

I Recommend The Lamb on Lamb Conduit Street near The university of London and the school of oriental and African studies.Charles Dickens drank and ate here.Wonderful ale and atmosphere.Big Al.

[@Sunny_in_London]

Cheers! Thank you for adding ideas!

[@deanmadnut2614]

A few more good pubs but it's east london which is the blind beggar in whitechapel and the marquis of Cornwallis in bethnal green

[@Sunny_in_London]

+dean madnut cheers! Thank you for watching and adding suggestions. I'll have to check them out when I'm in those areas in the future!

[@balasview3363]

Oh

[@sav7568]

The Red Lion in St James. You could be 10 metres from the door and not see it.

[@vermontmike9800]

The Grenadier was the first pub I visited in the UK. Fair place. Not sure what the reputation is, but seemed to be frequented mostly by office workers. Not really a working class vibe. I could be way off

[@danieltaylor2637]

I been in that pub in before Square twice before not good customer services though

[@2Travelis2Live]

Thank you for your tips on places to go. I would like to have a Sunday Roast, so I think one of these places might fit the bill.

[@Sunny_in_London]

Quite a few will! Our meal at the Admiralty Pub was amazing!

[@marcuswardle3180]

You forgot the Lamb and Flag in Covent Garden and the Westminster Arms just behind the Queen Elizabeth II Centre.

[@darshanh.j9747]

Very nice presentation☺️👍

[@davidpeters6536]

Hollybush is one of my favourites in North London.

[@Sunny_in_London]

I think you speak for a lot of people! (That have been there, of course) 😉

[@shootthelobster]

You forgot "Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese", Charles Dickens favorite haunt. 145 Fleet Street!

[@limeyosu2000]

Christopher Russell that’s a good one

[@liuzhou]

The Cheshire Cheese is hardly hidden, is it?

[@therailwaychannel1902]

have you been anywhere else in the UK other then London

[@ChalcedonXXX]

The City of York in High Holborn. Very nice Victorian pub. Easy to find too. Very nice lunches. It's a Sam Smiths pub. Good prices re beer.

[@TryptychUK]

Just a word of note: It's pronounced "Ho-born", not "Holl-born" - you drop the 'L'.

[@user-jn1tr8mo3g]

I lived there for three years (High Holborn) and always pronounced it Holborn and never once heard anyone call it Ho born.

[@TryptychUK]

@@user-jn1tr8mo3g Maybe that's because they didn't know either.
ua-cam.com/video/y7mjp_GeLBA/v-deo.html

[@francinevanzanten8368]

Most Londoners I know pronounce it Ho-bun. In proper Cockney you also leave out the H and make the u very short so it's like o'b'n.

[@dinerouk]

@@user-jn1tr8mo3g Neither have I Guess it's jut lazy young people.

[@berlinerrose]

Good information, but too much of you and not enough of the pubs themselves. An all too common failing among these channels.

[@sav7568]

The Red Lion in a narrow alley off Pall Mall near St James Rd

[@Sunny_in_London]

Cheers! I don’t think Mr Sunny knows that one. He said thanks and we’ll give it a go! 🍺

[@jeremymorgan6246]

Unless it has reopened the Sherlock Holmes pub has closed down.

[@Sunny_in_London]

I was just there two weeks ago and filmed a TikTok video. It’s on my account. I’ve actually been there twice since April.

[@foxayfox]

Awh I went in the first one but the hidden room upstairs was booked by some party and the nice seating upstairs overlooking the bar below was all "reserved" by non existent guests. Nice food though

[@Sunny_in_London]

+Victoria Louise cheers! Thank you for watching. Glad you enjoyed the food.

[@mariosanzcancela8154]

Thanks from Uruguay

[@MRVICTORSMITH-tj2gw]

Nice video on pubs. But I am non-alcholic and non-smoker veg person but its nice video

[@Sunny_in_London]

Thank you for watching and writing a comment.

[@MRVICTORSMITH-tj2gw]

Sunny London ,Heartly thanks my nice friend SUNNY your all videos are nice . I had attractions of UK of William Shakespeare, Sherlock Holmes, James Bond hero ,museums, nature etc . Again heartly thanks you my nice friend SUNNY and wish you and your family Merry Christmas 2019 .Almighty God and his most lovable great sacrificer son Jesus Christ always bless ,care and love you and your family .AMEN

[@gordonbradley199]

The " old one pound one" Bruton place Mayfair.
Hidden down a cobbled alley off Grosvenor Square.
Best steak pies in London when I was there decades ago, and still the best according to a recent Sunday supplement. ?
The " goat and French horn " hidden in an alley behind regent Street. No food. Traditional pub. ?

[@cachonfinga]

I think you mean The Black Lion and French Horn. It sadly no longer exists.

[@Andy_U]

You forgot to mention that the Gents at Ye Olde Mitre is like an outside slum toilet. Good beer, though.

[@Sunny_in_London]

Andy U cheers, Andy! Have to say I have never been to the gents toilet there ;-) Thank you for the tip! Any other hidden pubs you like in London?

[@Andy_U]

I feel the 'hidden' pubs have all gone with the redevelopment of the City of London, as opposed to the city of London, where I used to work many moons ago. But there are pubs you might walk straight past, still, like The Counting House in Cornhill, or not even consider visiting, like The Parcel Yard in King's Cross Station by Platform 9. My most often used London pubs, when I'm in town, are generally out in full view, though. There should be a really good down-the-stairs wine bar just behind the National Portrait Gallery, too, unless that's gone, as well.

[@Sunny_in_London]

Andy U great list! Thank you. I'll be at the National Portrait Gallery tomorrow and will look for the wine bar. I used to live right near there. The Porcupine and Polar Bear were my 'locals' ;-)

[@Sunny_in_London]

Andy U my husband says he knows the Counting House and said he thinks the wine bar you mentioned is gone :-( He and I met when we worked at NBC, when it was in Bedford Square.

[@Andy_U]

Hi Sunny, Any joy with the wine bar, or was Mr. Sunny's hunch right and it HAS gone?

[@Lee-70ish]

I used to like the Hole in the Wall at Waterloo station because it was a free house ( not brewery owned so can sell a bigger variety of beers)
I have heard however it is not the pub it once was and very run down, has anyone been lately and what's your opinion of it now?.
One favourite pub with tourists that is not in London is Britains smallest pub The Nut Shell in Bury Saint Edmonds
www.thenutshellpub.co.uk/

[@Sunny_in_London]

+Lee B Hi Lee! I greatly appreciate the advice! My husband and I don't get to the Moorgate area often so I can't answer but hopefully someone will be able to. Thank you for watching and adding a unique pub to the list too!

[@julianallen6849]

What about the Duke of York in Roger Street , Bloomsbury. Lovely inter-war interior.

[@Sunny_in_London]

+Julian Allen thank you! I lived on a Great Russell Street and worked in a Bedford Square when the NBC offices were there and don't know this pub. Will check it out. :-)

[@llwyde1104]

Thanks for the reply....my dodgy detector went off on one! Wrongly it seems. The Compton Arms in Islington is nicely tucked away behind Highbury Corner. Avoid on matchdays unless you are of course going to see the glorious Gunners!

[@oddities-whatnot]

They aren't secret or hidden if you know where they are ! Pointless.

[@deanodog3667]

Ten bells !

[@billybowen7264]

Nags Head knightsbridge

[@bigbarty8648]

Definitely not hidden and definitely not the best! Get off the tourist trail for those.

[@vazirvazir6165]

Hi Good morning, How r u, , Am CD.V.

[@FuckdasketsHOPassass]

Lol who drinks half pints at a pub?

[@aclark903]

Poor people. Spent a year in Birmingham ordering virtually nothing but half a #mildale

[@Jay-vr9ir]

MY HUSBAND AND ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@ahmd5]

Who would recommend eating at a tourist area. This is a very bad advice

[@johngcahill9583]

too much talk...

[@travelwithrado]

Useless

[@victornoble7254]

POOR

[@bruna3759]

You speak a lot..