Smithfield, EC1M
The Fox & Anchor is a Grade II listed Young's pub beside Smithfield Market, built in 1898 with a tiled Art Nouveau-influenced front by W J Neatby for Doulton....
Barbican 4 min · Walk-in

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Pubs that fit a big after-work crowd
Pubs that can take fifteen people without a corner squeeze - shortlist for big-group space, then rank so the commute is fair before you book.
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Pubs that can take fifteen people without a corner squeeze - shortlist for big-group space, then rank so the commute is fair before you book.
Smithfield, EC1M
The Fox & Anchor is a Grade II listed Young's pub beside Smithfield Market, built in 1898 with a tiled Art Nouveau-influenced front by W J Neatby for Doulton....
Barbican 4 min · Walk-in
Fitzrovia, W1T
Lore of the Land is Guy Ritchie's pub on Conway Street in Fitzrovia, with food cooked over charcoal, ember and flame. Its house beer comes from Gritchie,...
Warren Street 5 min · Bookable
Bloomsbury, WC1B
The Bloomsbury Club is a low-lit basement bar inside The Bloomsbury Hotel on Great Russell Street. It mixes jazz-inspired cocktails alongside the classics, and...
Tottenham Court Road 4 min · Bookable
Clerkenwell, EC1R
The City Pride is a Clerkenwell pub on Farringdon Lane with a proper Italian kitchen. It opens only Monday to Friday, so it is built for after-work drinks. The...
Farringdon 5 min · Walk-in
Clerkenwell, EC1R
The Clerkenwell Tavern on the corner of Exmouth Market has been a Farringdon staple since 1876. It is known for salt beef sandwiches and Reubens, with natural...
Farringdon 9 min · Bookable
Marylebone, W1U
The Coach Makers Arms is a restored Victorian pub on Marylebone Lane, run by Cubitt House. The ground-floor bar suits a drop-in crowd, and the dining room...
Bond Street 4 min · Bookable
Bloomsbury, WC1E
The College Arms is a one-room pub on Store Street, near Goodge Street. Its green-and-white tiled floor and mirrored screens give it plenty of character....
Goodge Street 3 min · Walk-in
Clerkenwell, EC1R
The Crown Tavern is a Clerkenwell Green pub that claims Lenin and Stalin met there in 1905, though historians doubt it. It has two hire rooms: the Apollo Room,...
Farringdon 7 min · Walk-in
Grafton Way, W1T
The Grafton Arms is a Fitzrovia corner pub on Grafton Way, near Warren Street, with 11 bedrooms upstairs. It serves pan-Asian food with real ales, wine and...
Warren Street 5 min · Walk-in
Northington St, WC1N
The Lady Ottoline is a corner pub on Northington Street in Bloomsbury, on a site where there has been a pub since at least 1756. It is named after Lady...
Chancery Lane 8 min · Walk-in
Chancery Ln, WC2A
The Last Judgment is a gilded, theatrical pub in the former Union Bank building on the corner of Chancery Lane and Carey Street. The kitchen runs a Steak &...
Chancery Lane 3 min · Walk-in
Leigh St, WC1H
The Norfolk Arms is a high-ceilinged Bloomsbury pub on Leigh Street that serves a big Mediterranean tapas menu with its pints. Small plates mostly sit between...
Russell Square 6 min · Walk-in
Market Pl, W1W
The Oxford Market is an independent pub and kitchen on Market Place, a couple of minutes from Oxford Circus, with a beer garden. Sing-along classics start at...
Oxford Circus 3 min · Bookable
After-Work Drinks in Central London filtered for Big Groups keeps pubs with enough space for a large table or standing area - so fifteen people are not squeezed into a corner for the toast. Add each office as a starting point and rank before you book.
Yes. Rank first, then reserve - turning up fifteen strong without a booking usually means a corridor. If you also need a closed door, switch to Private Room or combine both.
Add each person’s office or station in FairWhere. It ranks pubs that work across those departure points - not just the one nearest whoever organised the leaving do.
After-Work Drinks in Central London is a curated set of bookable central pubs. Add each person's office or station in FairWhere and it ranks the shortlist by journey fairness, so the person finishing in Stratford is not always the one with the nightmare commute.
This Placelist focuses on pubs with bookable space or private rooms for groups. Filter for bookable, private room, or big groups, then rank the shortlist fairly before you request a table.
FairWhere ranks venues on this Placelist by FairWhere Score: journey fairness for your whole group, not by popularity, sponsorship, or who suggested the place first. Open Plan a fair meet to add origins and see the ranked shortlist.
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