The Evening Standard team pick their favourite pubs
What makes the perfect pub? Perhaps it is an impossible question to answer — still, last week, the Standard tried. With a hand from Josh Barrie and Mike Daw, I put together the paper's newest list of the 50 best pubs in London.
Despite being far from scientific — I tend to believe science in a pub should mostly be left to the pressure in the pumps — putting it together had taken years of trawling across town for pints here and there, picking up recommendations, hearing out the angry DMs of places missed, refining choices. I don't go to Catford lightly.
As such, the list is quite specific in its aims — it hopes to champion pubs that really are egalitarian, that really do welcome everyone, and don't look to dictate an experience (which is why gastropubs, restaurants in pubs' clothing, will get their own list in the new year).
And still. Pubs number in their thousands, and
