Soho
Maison Bertaux has been making cakes on Greek Street since 1871, when Monsieur Bertaux arrived from Paris. It is a tiny patisserie and tea room with mismatched...
Tottenham Court Road 5 min · Walk-in

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Quiet pubs, bars and cafés in London to talk
Filtered for £ + Budget Friendly, then ranked by journey fairness for your group.
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Filtered for £ + Budget Friendly, then ranked by journey fairness for your group.
Chapter 1 · 4 pubs, bars and cafés
Soho
Maison Bertaux has been making cakes on Greek Street since 1871, when Monsieur Bertaux arrived from Paris. It is a tiny patisserie and tea room with mismatched...
Tottenham Court Road 5 min · Walk-in
Holborn
Prufrock Coffee has been serving coffee and food on Leather Lane since 2011. It is one of the cafés that shaped London's speciality coffee scene, and its food...
Chancery Lane 3 min · Walk-in
Mayfair
The Champion is a Grade II listed Samuel Smith's pub on the corner of Wells Street and Eastcastle Street in Fitzrovia. Its stained-glass windows of Victorian...
Oxford Circus 5 min · Walk-in
Islington
The Holy Tavern is the small pub at 55 Britton Street in Clerkenwell that many people still know as the Jerusalem Tavern. The room was recreated in 1996 as an...
Farringdon 1 min · Walk-in
Chapter 2 · 2 pubs, bars and cafés
West Hampstead
Burgh House Café is in Burgh House, a Queen Anne house of 1704 in Hampstead that is now a museum. It has a garden terrace, and the museum is free to visit. It...
Hampstead 1 min · Walk-in
Highbury
Ink@84 is an independent bookshop on Highbury Park that also serves coffee, wine, craft beer and gin. It opens from 10am to 6pm Monday to Saturday and from...
Highbury & Islington 6 min · Walk-in
Chapter 3 · 2 pubs, bars and cafés
East Greenwich
Black Eye Coffee is a café at 85 Trafalgar Road in Greenwich, serving breakfast and speciality coffee. It has a garden at the back, away from the Cutty Sark...
Greenwich 3 min · Walk-in
Wapping
The Gallery Café is the award-winning vegan café at St Margaret's House on Old Ford Road in Bethnal Green. It has been plant-based since it opened in 2006,...
Bethnal Green 1 min · Walk-in
This view narrows Quiet pubs, bars and cafés in London to talk to venues tagged for £ + Budget Friendly. FairWhere can still rank that filtered shortlist by journey fairness when you start a plan, so the activity fit and the commute both work for the group.
Earlier in the day, almost everywhere. Weekday mornings and early afternoons are the calmest at most of these quiet pubs, bars and cafés in London, and evenings get louder, with after-work crowds at places like Gordon's Wine Bar and The Wigmore. Several are daytime only. Each venue note says when it's calmest, and where a place is livelier than quiet, we say so. For a livelier after-work pint, see After-Work Drinks. For a louder City dinner when quiet isn't the point, see Square Mile Weeknights.
In some. Store Street Espresso and Prufrock Coffee are the easy ones, and Age Exchange Cafe, Ink@84, Petitou, St John's Bakery and The Gallery Cafe also carry a laptop-friendly tag. Monocle Café is the exception: laptops are discouraged there. Most of these are daytime venues, so check hours before you plan a long session.
Here, fair means the journey. Add where everyone is starting from and FairWhere ranks these quiet pubs, bars and cafés in London by how evenly the travel is shared across your group, using the FairWhere Score. The shortlist is picked for quiet. The ranking is not about popularity, sponsorship or who suggested it first.
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