The 100 Best Pubs in the World

Twin open fires and flagged floors set the tone at this old Cotswold inn turned gastropub, where the kitchen cooks over flame and changes the menu as often as the farmers call. The team behind London's The Pelican came home to Charlbury to restore it, and the terse, ingredient-led dishes feel like the point rather than the ambition. It ranks in the Top 50 Gastropubs and is in the Michelin Guide. Rooms upstairs if you miss the last train.

1. Great British Pub Awards 2025 · Best Pub for Food · Great British Pub Awards
2. Top 50 Gastropubs 2026 · #28 · Top 50 Gastropubs
3. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

A Glastonbury pub named after a tarot card, in an old coaching inn where the menu runs on Middle Eastern instinct and Somerset produce. The chef, of Jordanian heritage and French training, spent summers cooking with her grandmother in Jordan before stints at The Palomar and a Michelin-starred spot in Anglesey shaped her into someone who can make a shish barak feel completely at home in the West Country. The Michelin Guide awards it a Bib Gourmand.

1. Top 50 Gastropubs 2026 · Chef of the Year · Top 50 Gastropubs · Ayesha Kalaji
2. Top 50 Gastropubs 2026 · #42 · Top 50 Gastropubs
3. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

A Cotswolds inn that pulls its produce straight from Daylesford's farm next door, so the bread, cheese, meat, and vegetables have had almost no time to reconsider their life choices before reaching the table. The Wild Rabbit is a gastropub with a log fire, worn leather armchairs, and an open kitchen, and it sits in the Top 50 Gastropubs list. The bar runs artisan ales alongside the kind of lagers nobody is embarrassed to order.

1. Top 50 Gastropubs 2026 · Sustainable Pub of the Year · Top 50 Gastropubs
2. Top 50 Gastropubs 2026 · #45 · Top 50 Gastropubs
3. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

Sitting on the Goodwood Estate, this West Sussex pub draws walkers, golfers, and devoted regulars who rarely bother with the menu because they already know it cold. The kitchen runs British classics alongside modern bistro dishes and a run of small plates for grazers, while the bar keeps cask ales, lagers, and low-alcohol options. Cosy enough that staying for one more round barely feels like a decision.

1. Great British Pub Awards 2025 · Punch Pub of the Year · Great British Pub Awards

A 400-year-old timber-framed building on Knaresborough's market square, Blind Jack's is a proper beer pub with five cask and ten craft lines pouring from a tiny bar that has no business handling that much traffic. Draught Bass sits alongside Black Sheep, but the rotating pumps wander toward American brown ales and porters. The 2025 Great British Pub Awards named it Best Beer Pub. You walk in feeling like a regular before you've ordered.

1. Great British Pub Awards 2025 · Best Beer Pub · Great British Pub Awards

Wednesday's open mic night has been running longer than most local bands have been alive, and that's the clue to what Chaplin's is. This Boscombe pub won the Great British Pub Awards' Best Community Pub in 2025, and it earns the tag: live music five nights a week, colourful décor, a garden heading toward wedding-venue status, and a crowd that treats the place less like a bar and more like a second living room.

1. Great British Pub Awards 2025 · Best Community Pub · Great British Pub Awards

The brewery tap for Joules, Crown Wharf sits on the original site of one of their first breweries, built almost entirely from reclaimed materials by a two-man crew that kept going through the pandemic. It's a proper pub with a theatre and heritage centre attached, which is not a sentence you write every day. The Great British Pub Awards named it Overall Great British Pub of the Year in 2025, and Stone seems to agree, judging by the crowd.

1. Great British Pub Awards 2025 · Overall Great British Pub of the Year & Best Town Pub · Great British Pub Awards

American memorabilia lines the walls of this lively bar and casual dining spot on Saltergate, where line dancing nights sit comfortably alongside quiz nights and live sport on the same weekly calendar. The vibe is broadly Americana, the crowd is local and loyal, and the programming is restless enough that there's usually something on. It took the Admiral Taverns Pub of the Year at the 2025 Great British Pub Awards.

1. Great British Pub Awards 2025 · Admiral Taverns Pub of the Year · Great British Pub Awards

A 14th-century Grade I-listed manor house is the unlikely anchor of this sprawling south Staffordshire pub, where walkers and diners turn up in roughly equal numbers. Inside, art deco lighting and a Blue Room wrapped in a 360-degree mural sit comfortably beside the open kitchen and pizza oven. Outside, there are booths and a bookable teepee. It took Marston's Pub of the Year at the 2025 Great British Pub Awards.

1. Great British Pub Awards 2025 · Marston's Pub of the Year · Great British Pub Awards

A pub in a Leeds conservation area that won the Great British Pub Awards' Best Pub Garden two years running, and once you see the place, that tracks. What was a car park and field is now a two-tiered outdoor space with a terrace bar, wooden huts, and views over a cricket pitch. The planting is genuinely cared for, pollinator-friendly and all. A solid neighborhood pub where the garden is the whole point.

1. Great British Pub Awards 2025 · Best Pub Garden · Great British Pub Awards

Every dog gets a colored cone on arrival, a quiet signal to the room about whether they're up for socializing or need a little space. Old Duke is a pub on the Southport outskirts that takes its canine clientele as seriously as the humans, with borrowed beds, blankets, treats, and a dedicated dog menu. It won the Great British Pub Awards Best Pub for Dogs in 2025, which tracks completely once you're inside.

1. Great British Pub Awards 2025 · Best Pub for Dogs · Great British Pub Awards

A giant bowl of free dog treats greets you at the door, which tells you almost everything about this big, restored south London pub sitting between Catford and Sydenham. There's a kids' corner in the dining room, an adults-only terrace for anyone brave enough to call it date night, and a calendar of events so packed it makes community centres look idle. It won Best Pub for Families at the Great British Pub Awards in 2025.

1. Great British Pub Awards 2025 · Best Pub for Families · Great British Pub Awards

Seventeen screens, three Sky boxes, and sound zones that let different matches play in their own corners of the room: Pinnacle takes the sports pub formula pretty seriously. Pool, darts, and electronic basketball keep things moving between kickoffs, and the family-friendly hours mean it's not purely a fortress of lager and shouting. The 2025 Great British Pub Award for Best Pub to Watch Sport suggests the rebrand landed.

1. Great British Pub Awards 2025 · Best Pub to Watch Sport · Great British Pub Awards

A pub whose back garden is so large it hosts its own Oktoberfest, sausage toss included. Inside, The Black Pug is a warren of cosy rooms; outside, there's covered seating, an outdoor bar, and enough room for a grumble of actual pugs, which is both the collective noun and, on any given weekend, an accurate headcount. Pizza Monday, Taco Tuesday, and free kids' meals on Friday keep the locals cycling through. Star Pub of the Year at the Great British Pub Awards 2025.

1. Great British Pub Awards 2025 · Star Pub of the Year · Great British Pub Awards

Pewter mugs hang from low beams in this National Trust-owned country pub that has been a fixture of Bretforton village life for centuries. Flagstone floors, roaring fires, and an orchard garden set the scene for real ale, food, and the occasional Morris dancing display. The Great British Pub Awards named it Best Country Pub in 2025, which will surprise no one who has spent an afternoon here working through a pint while someone's dog sleeps by the fire.

1. Great British Pub Awards 2025 · Best Country Pub · Great British Pub Awards

A plush green and gold interior, walled prints, and a fire in the waiting area make it clear this Keston village pub took its refurbishment seriously. The Fox is a full pub and dining room, running from bar snacks with dogs welcome at your feet through to a kitchen that leans on seasonal, local produce for its menu of British classics with the occasional ecurious detour. The Great British Pub Awards named it Stonegate Group Pub Partners Pub of the Year in 2025.

1. Great British Pub Awards 2025 · Stonegate Group Pub Partners Pub of the Year · Great British Pub Awards

A glass-roofed courtyard and a big terrace where walk-ins are always welcome set the tone at this gastropub near Knaresborough, part of Tommy Banks' growing Yorkshire operation. The kitchen runs on local produce and day-boat fish, mixing pub classics with the odd more ambitious move, all with a seasonal logic baked in from the start. The service team have the warmth the setting asks for, which, in a coaching inn this old, is quite a lot.

1. Top 50 Gastropubs 2026 · One to Watch · Top 50 Gastropubs
2. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

A traditional pub in the heart of the Peak District where food waste gets fed into a machine called Greedy George and comes out the other side as compost for the kitchen garden. The team behind The George has turned sustainable pub-keeping into something closer to a vocation, running an allotment, growing produce for the menu, and finding uses for beer-line chemicals that would surprise most landlords.

1. Great British Pub Awards 2025 · Best Sustainable Pub · Great British Pub Awards

The courtyard is the whole argument: a stage, original artwork, beach huts, and covered heated seating squeezed into a pub garden between Bristol and Bath. The licensee came up as a musician and built the programming around it, so live music runs through the calendar rather than landing as a Friday afterthought. A community local that won Best Pub for Entertainment at the Great British Pub Awards, which tells you what the priorities are.

1. Great British Pub Awards 2025 · Best Pub for Entertainment · Great British Pub Awards

A nano brewery in an outbuilding, mead on tap, and a beer garden with a fire pit that stays open whatever the weather: this is a real-ale pub in the Surrey town of Godalming that takes its cask seriously. The team has run it for years and the regulars have clearly noticed, packing the place reliably. It took the Greene King Pub of the Year at the 2025 Great British Pub Awards.

1. Great British Pub Awards 2025 · Greene King Pub of the Year · Great British Pub Awards

A thatched fourteenth-century pub in a tiny North Yorkshire village, the Star Inn holds a Michelin star and sits at number five on the Top 50 Gastropubs list, which tells you this is not your average moorland local. Fish comes from Whitby, game from the moors, and vegetables from the kitchen garden, all finding their way into cooking that is classical underneath and quietly inventive on top. The charred beams from a 2021 fire were left exactly where they fell.

1. Michelin Guide 1 Star
2. Top 50 Gastropubs 2026 · #5 · Top 50 Gastropubs
3. National Restaurant Awards 2026 · #78 · The National Restaurant Awards

The daily menu goes live online at 11am, which tells you something about how seriously this Highgate gastropub takes its kitchen. Produce comes from Highgate Butchers and a careful roster of suppliers, and the wine list has a reputation that pulls people in from well beyond N6. White walls and light wood give it a New England boathouse feel, and on Sundays the roasts fill every table by early afternoon. Ranked third in the Top 50 Gastropubs.

1. Top 50 Gastropubs 2026 · #3 · Top 50 Gastropubs

Treacle-glazed pig's cheeks and a Lancashire cheese soufflé anchor the menu at this smartly refurbished gastropub in a small Ribble Valley village, ranked in the UK's Top 50 Gastropubs. The cosy bar handles a quiet pint just fine, while the bright orangery dining room is where the kitchen gets serious: full-flavoured, unfussy cooking built on well-sourced produce. The Den fits ten for a more private meal, and Sunday lunch runs to curried goat pie for anyone bored of the usual.

1. Top 50 Gastropubs 2026 · #9 · Top 50 Gastropubs
2. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

Beamed ceilings, log burners, and modern art on the walls set the tone at this gastropub in rural Suffolk, a short drive from Woodbridge. The kitchen leans British with a Mediterranean streak, changing the menu monthly and running daily specials off local coastal suppliers. More than sixty wines are available by the glass, which keeps things lively. It sits at number two on the Top 50 Gastropubs list, for those keeping score.

1. Top 50 Gastropubs 2026 · #2 · Top 50 Gastropubs
2. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

A vine-covered terrace looks out over Slad Valley, and Laurie Lee, who made this Cotswolds pub famous in "Cider with Rosie," is buried just up the road. The kitchen runs a short, seasonal menu driven by what's growing nearby, with a bar snacks list that takes sardines on toast more seriously than most restaurants take their mains. It ranked fourth on the Top 50 Gastropubs list in 2026.

1. Top 50 Gastropubs 2026 · #4 · Top 50 Gastropubs

Fordwich sits in a claim to fame as England's smallest town, and this ivy-clad Arts and Crafts pub beside the River Stour punches well above its postcode. A wood-topped bar and open fires give way to a panelled dining room where the cooking is modern and occasionally playful without letting cleverness override flavour. The kitchen leans hard on Kentish producers. It holds a Michelin star.

1. Michelin Guide 1 Star
2. Top 50 Gastropubs 2026 · #19 · Top 50 Gastropubs

A converted village pub in the Kent countryside, roughly split between bar and dining room so it never quite forgets what it is. The kitchen leans into seasonal produce from Kent and the West Country, mixing both in a way that reads as modern British without being precious about the label. The garden out back fills up when the weather agrees, and the crowd skews local and commuter, which is exactly what the place was built for.

1. Top 50 Gastropubs 2026 · #21 · Top 50 Gastropubs
2. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

A Michelin-starred gastropub on a Camberwell corner that holds a large bar for walk-ins alongside a proper dining room, so you can commit to whatever level of evening you're after. The cooking is deceptively plain, leaning on good produce and classical technique without making a fuss about either. The weekday lunch with a pint or a glass of wine for under £20 has made it a neighborhood institution at impressive speed.

1. Michelin Guide 1 Star
2. Top 50 Gastropubs 2026 · #25 · Top 50 Gastropubs
3. National Restaurant Awards 2026 · #81 · The National Restaurant Awards

A proper pub by the Quayside, named for the lane it sits on and stocked with more than fifty beers downstairs before you even think about heading up to the rustic dining room. The kitchen leans into hearty, punchily flavoured British cooking, the kind that suits a pint and doesn't apologize for it. A Michelin Bib Gourmand and a fixture on the Top 50 Gastropubs list, which seems about right for a place this committed to being an actual pub.

1. Top 50 Gastropubs 2026 · #15 · Top 50 Gastropubs
2. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

A traditional high-street pub in Tavistock where proper pints and carefully cooked food share equal billing, The Cornish Arms holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand and a spot on the Top 50 Gastropubs list. The kitchen leans into local produce without making a fuss about it, turning out dishes that look simple until you notice how much thought went into them. Locals and tourists seem equally at home, which is harder to pull off than it sounds.

1. Top 50 Gastropubs 2026 · #10 · Top 50 Gastropubs
2. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

A low-beamed country pub in a tiny Berkshire village, The Crown is the project of Dominic Chapman, who built his reputation at the Royal Oak in Paley Street and has done time with Heston Blumenthal. The menu runs seasonal British with occasional Continental drift, and the cask ales are treated as seriously as the wine list. It sits in the Michelin Guide and ranked 22nd on the Top 50 Gastropubs list, which does the talking for the kitchen.

1. Top 50 Gastropubs 2026 · #22 · Top 50 Gastropubs
2. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

The brown-tiled facade on Hackney Road hides a gastropub that genuinely runs on two speeds: a wood-panelled bar downstairs that feels like it hasn't shifted since the 1970s, and a calmer dining room upstairs where the kitchen, staffed by alumni of St. JOHN, turns out proudly seasonal British cooking. The philosophy is that eating should never feel like a hushed ordeal, and the menu, built around dressed crab and proper Sunday roasts, argues the point quietly but well.

1. Difford's Guide 4.5 stars · Difford's Guide
2. Top 50 Gastropubs 2026 · #23 · Top 50 Gastropubs
3. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

Old oak beams, a roaring fire, and a menu that changes daily depending on what came off the farm that morning. The Merry Harriers is a proper country gastropub in the Surrey Hills, the kind that's been around forever but got a serious kitchen upgrade when the current team took over. Shepherd's pie uses lamb they raised themselves, the wine list is quietly considered, and local ales share the bar with an actual cocktail list. Fifteen rooms mean you can stay.

1. Top 50 Gastropubs 2026 · #18 · Top 50 Gastropubs

Margot Henderson of Rochelle Canteen brought her London following to a 17th-century Somerset pub tucked between the village church and the hall. Beamed ceilings, flagstone floors, and open fires set the scene for a daily-changing menu that leans hard on local produce, the kind of cooking that makes cottage pie feel like a considered choice. Ranked 14th on the Top 50 Gastropubs list, it draws visitors who book the five antique-furnished rooms upstairs and stay longer than they planned.

1. Top 50 Gastropubs 2026 · #14 · Top 50 Gastropubs
2. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

A gastropub in the Gwent countryside where the menu changes every week, following whatever's coming in from local farms and suppliers. Josh and Hannah Byrne run the room while the kitchen turns out seasonal plates that lean into the landscape around them. The wine list favors small European producers working sustainably, which sounds earnest until you taste it. Good spot to land after a walk along the Usk.

1. Top 50 Gastropubs 2026 · #46 · Top 50 Gastropubs
2. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

The Scotch eggs here have a reputation serious enough to anchor a cookbook. Perched at the northern end of Highgate Road, the Bull & Last is a proper gastropub, landed in the Michelin Guide and on the Top 50 Gastropubs list, with a handful of boutique rooms upstairs if Hampstead Heath has done its work on you. The menu runs British pub classics with a continental lean, and the room feels bright without trying too hard about it.

1. Top 50 Gastropubs 2026 · #39 · Top 50 Gastropubs
2. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

The front bar still takes walk-ins for a pint and a freshly made pie, which tells you everything about what Heft is trying to be. A gastropub in a 17th-century Cumbrian inn, it holds a Michelin star for the tasting menu served out back, where the chef's foraging knowledge and deep roots in the local landscape produce dishes that are playful in name and serious in depth. All tables eat at the same time, so don't be late.

1. Michelin Guide 1 Star
2. Top 50 Gastropubs 2026 · #34 · Top 50 Gastropubs

A Michelin-starred gastropub hidden down the country lanes of East Yorkshire, where Barnsley chops and locally shot game arrive in portions that mean business. The kitchen refines pub classics without making them feel precious, and the wine list runs deep enough to keep you at the table longer than planned. Smart rooms converted from old lambing buildings make spending the night a reasonable excuse.

1. Michelin Guide 1 Star
2. Top 50 Gastropubs 2026 · #31 · Top 50 Gastropubs

Tucked into a mill fold on the edge of the Shibden Estate, this gastropub has eleven rooms if the drive home feels ambitious. The kitchen runs proper à la carte and tasting menus alongside Sunday lunch, with cooking that leans into Yorkshire produce without making a big speech about it. Gentle Brontë country walks are right outside, and the Anne Lister connection means someone at the bar is always mid-rewatch of Gentleman Jack.

1. Top 50 Gastropubs 2026 · #49 · Top 50 Gastropubs
2. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

A rotisserie turning at the center of the room sets the tone at Tom Kerridge's no-reservations gastropub in Marlow: casual, a little louder than you'd expect from a Michelin-starred room, and genuinely good at sharing plates. Small dishes are the move, and the kitchen makes punchy, satisfying food without the ceremony. Marlow locals come for a pint; others make the trip for the cooking. Either way, the pub holds a Michelin star.

1. Michelin Guide 1 Star
2. Top 50 Gastropubs 2026 · #29 · Top 50 Gastropubs

A Michelin-starred pub tucked into a Fulham backstreet, the Harwood Arms has held its star longer than most restaurants in proper dining rooms, which says something about the kitchen's commitment to seasonal British cooking and careful sourcing. The room stays genuinely pubby, which makes the food feel like a pleasant ambush. Book well ahead, especially for evenings, and keep an eye on how enthusiastically you're working through the wine list.

1. Michelin Guide 1 Star
2. Difford's Guide 4.5 stars · Difford's Guide
3. Top 50 Gastropubs 2026 · #36 · Top 50 Gastropubs

Sausage rolls baked to order, ham carved from the joint and finished on the open fireplace, a dedicated mustard menu: the Highland Laddie is a pub that takes the pub seriously. It landed on the Top 50 Gastropubs list, and Jimi Famurewa called it out in The Observer as a northern boozer of unexpected finesse. Come for a pint and leave having somehow eaten rather a lot.

1. Top 50 Gastropubs 2026 · #30 · Top 50 Gastropubs

A 17th-century stone inn near Blenheim Palace that the owners rescued from dereliction and turned into one of the country's more serious gastropubs. The kitchen bakes its own bread, butchers its own meat, and leans hard on organic sourcing. A bar menu, set lunch, Sunday roast, and tasting menu mean you can pitch your visit anywhere from a quiet pint to a proper occasion. Eight rooms upstairs if you'd rather not drive back to Oxford.

1. Top 50 Gastropubs 2026 · #37 · Top 50 Gastropubs
2. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

The raised beds on the terrace grow the herbs and vegetables that end up on your plate, which sets the tone nicely for this gastropub in Old Windsor. Adam Handling's country inn holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand and a place on the Top 50 Gastropubs list, and the kitchen earns both by taking pub classics seriously without taking itself too seriously. The haggis Scotch egg and the seasonal trifle are regulars worth knowing about.

1. Top 50 Gastropubs 2026 · #48 · Top 50 Gastropubs
2. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

A ferry ride from Padstow drops you in Rock, where this large, buzzy gastropub sits right on the estuary with terrace views over the Camel. Part of Paul Ainsworth's Cornish stable, it leans into hearty, no-nonsense British cooking: shepherd's pie and fish and chips alongside whatever the day boats brought in. The crowd arrives sunburned and hungry, which is more or less exactly the clientele the place was built for.

1. Top 50 Gastropubs 2026 · #27 · Top 50 Gastropubs
2. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

A gastropub on the Harpenden common that has been pouring pints since the Victorian era, The Silver Cup pairs local ales with modern British cooking that takes seasonal produce seriously. The room is contemporary and relaxed, the kind of place where you can eat well without performing about it. Rooms are available if you'd rather not navigate the train home. It sits in the Top 50 Gastropubs list and is selected by the Michelin Guide.

1. Top 50 Gastropubs 2026 · #32 · Top 50 Gastropubs
2. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

A whitewashed pub on a windswept sea wall in Kent, where the chef makes his own salt by boiling seawater from the beach out back. The slip sole grilled in seaweed butter has become quietly famous, which the chef hates, because he doesn't believe in signature dishes. A Michelin-starred gastropub that somehow stays a proper pub, with locals nursing pints alongside pilgrims who've driven two hours for the tasting menu and pretend they haven't.

1. Michelin Guide 1 Star
2. Top 50 Gastropubs 2026 · #26 · Top 50 Gastropubs
3. The 50 The 50 Discovery

A haggis Scotch egg on a Cornish pub menu is either very confused or very deliberate, and at The Tartan Fox it's very deliberate. Adam Handling's gastropub sits inside a stone country inn tucked into a forest on a caravan park outside Summercourt, which is a more charming setting than that sentence suggests. The kitchen leans on local Cornish producers while threading in Scottish touches throughout a generous, changing menu. The cheese doughnuts have become something of a signature.

1. Top 50 Gastropubs 2026 · #41 · Top 50 Gastropubs
2. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

The Patty & Bun founder's pivot from smash burgers to Thames-side gastropub is less of a stretch than it sounds. The Waterman's Arms sits right on the river in Barnes, with a balcony view that earns its keep and a bar downstairs for anyone who just wants a pint. Upstairs, the kitchen runs a produce-led menu of seasonal modern British cooking, with a blackboard of steaks and market fish doing the heavier lifting alongside bar snacks worth lingering over.

1. Top 50 Gastropubs 2026 · #33 · Top 50 Gastropubs
2. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

Wine comes in tumblers here, which tells you everything about the Anchor & Hope's attitude. It's a proper Southwark pub with burgundy walls, mismatched furniture, and no reservations, so the scramble for a table is part of the deal. The food skews modern British and generous, the crowd mixes locals with people who crossed town on purpose, and the whole thing manages to feel like a neighbourhood place that somehow everyone claims as their own.

1. Difford's Guide 4.5 stars · Difford's Guide
2. Top 50 Gastropubs 2026 · #64 · Top 50 Gastropubs
3. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

Castle Combe has been called the prettiest village in England so many times the locals have stopped blushing, and the Castle Inn sits at its heart looking entirely complicit. It's a proper pub and gastropub with rooms, where the kitchen keeps things rooted in the landscape, Cotswold cider finding its way into the pork, local crab onto the brunch menu. Stone walls, a wood fire, and a bybrook outside doing its photogenic best.

1. Top 50 Gastropubs 2026 · #53 · Top 50 Gastropubs
2. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

A Georgian inn just off the market square in a small Dartmoor town, the Chagford Inn does the gastropub thing without making a fuss about it. Local farmers, coastal fishermen, and garden growers supply an ever-changing menu, and the kitchen butchers, bakes, and pastas in-house. The room is modern-rustic and comfortable, the kind of place where the food is serious but nobody's asking you to be.

1. Top 50 Gastropubs 2026 · #76 · Top 50 Gastropubs
2. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

A gastropub sitting right on the River Teme, with terraces that make it nearly impossible to eat inside on a fine day. The menu moves comfortably between French and British without making a fuss about it, running from fish soup with rouille to battered haddock to sticky toffee pudding. Muddy walkers, well-behaved dogs, and people on date nights all seem equally at home here. It holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand.

1. Top 50 Gastropubs 2026 · #94 · Top 50 Gastropubs
2. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

Low ceilings and a centuries-old feel set the tone at this gastropub in Bray, where the kitchen runs on French technique and old-school British instincts. The menu skips trends entirely: pâté, pie and mash, market fish cooked simply, and a dessert list anchored by syrup sponge. There's a private dining snug decorated with the chef's own artwork, which either charms you immediately or raises questions you probably shouldn't voice.

1. Top 50 Gastropubs 2026 · #89 · Top 50 Gastropubs
2. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

Baby blue walls, mismatched furniture, and mirrors over the fireplaces set the tone for this Islington neighbourhood pub, which takes its food seriously without making a point of it. A Breton-born chef means braised rabbit sits happily next to steak and ale pie on a daily-changing menu. The courtyard garden fills up fast in warm weather, and the wine list runs deeper than a pub strictly needs.

1. Top 50 Gastropubs 2026 · #67 · Top 50 Gastropubs
2. Difford's Guide 3.5 stars · Difford's Guide
3. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

A thatched pub in Marlow with beamed ceilings and two Michelin stars, which sounds like a setup to a joke until the food arrives. Tom Kerridge made his name here turning classic British pub cooking into something considerably more serious, and the kitchen still earns it. The menu stays short enough that everything on it feels considered, and the room stays pubby enough that none of it feels precious.

1. Michelin Guide 2 Stars
2. Top 50 Gastropubs 2026 · #68 · Top 50 Gastropubs

The pub runs its own smallholding, kitchen garden, and bakery, so when the menu changes twice a day at this Welsh gastropub, it's because something was just harvested. Tom Watts-Jones trained at London's Anchor & Hope and brought that ethos to the Vale of Glamorgan, making everything from cultured butter to fresh pasta in-house. Sit in the bar, dining room, or garden for cooking that's unfussy but clearly serious about its ingredients.

1. Top 50 Gastropubs 2026 · #96 · Top 50 Gastropubs

A champagne and oyster bar tucked into a century-old Llandaff pub is a choice that takes confidence, and the Heathcock pulls it off without blinking. The menu changes twice daily, leans hard into nose-to-tail Welsh cooking, and shares a kitchen philosophy with sibling pub the Hare & Hounds in Aberthin. Sharing plates are the move here. The Michelin Guide awarded it a Bib Gourmand, and the kitchen garden out back keeps things seasonal whether you like it or not.

1. Top 50 Gastropubs 2026 · #74 · Top 50 Gastropubs
2. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

A gastropub in Kensal Rise where the chef is known to open champagne with a sabre at the chef's table and serve dessert straight onto the tabletop. The cooking leans toward proper British comfort, the kind of pub that takes its sourcing seriously without forgetting it's still a pub. Locals fill it like regulars rather than guests, which is the whole point.

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Flagstone floors, wooden beams, beer poured from casks behind the bar: this old Cornish pub in the village of St Kew has been perfecting the gastropub formula before anyone called it that. The menu leans into local seafood and countryside produce, and the garden earns its keep on a warm afternoon. It sits close enough to the north Cornwall coast to double as a very reasonable excuse to extend a coastal walk by two hours.

1. Top 50 Gastropubs 2026 · #69 · Top 50 Gastropubs
2. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

The name comes from a long-lost family house in Burton on Trent, and the brewing heritage goes back centuries, which is a lot of backstory for a gastropub on Kensington Church Street. Cask ales anchor the offer, and the kitchen builds a daily-changing menu around simple, seasonal British cooking with classical European touches. The food is there to keep company with the beer, not to upstage it, and mostly it holds to that bargain.

1. Top 50 Gastropubs 2026 · #88 · Top 50 Gastropubs

A Michelin-starred gastropub on a busy A-road outside Lichfield, which is either a strike against it or the whole point, depending on how you feel about destination dining. The kitchen runs a small on-site farm that feeds the menu, with local producers covering the rest, all handled with the kind of precision that makes a venison dish feel considered rather than merely seasonal. The chefs come out to explain what's on the plate, and somehow it doesn't feel annoying.

1. Michelin Guide 1 Star
2. Top 50 Gastropubs 2026 · #62 · Top 50 Gastropubs

A Kentish country gastropub where the steak list leans on Ightham beef, with côte de boeuf cuts cooked for sharing, and the bar snacks include a venison and nduja Scotch egg that has no business being that good. The menu runs from battered fish and chips to roasted chalk stream trout, all of it grounded firmly in the surrounding countryside. It landed on the Top 50 Gastropubs list, which tracks for a place that manages to feel genuinely local rather than aspirationally rural.

1. Top 50 Gastropubs 2026 · #90 · Top 50 Gastropubs

Six miles of single-track road separates this former drovers' inn from Hay-on-Wye, which tells you something about the kind of quiet it keeps. Flagstone floors, slate walls, and open fires set the tone for farm-to-fork pub cooking that runs on meat from the owners' regenerative farm and produce from the surrounding Black Mountains valley. Dogs are welcome in the bar, cabins sit on the grounds, and the Sunday roast is not negotiable.

1. Top 50 Gastropubs 2026 · #59 · Top 50 Gastropubs
2. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

A Cambridge gastropub where the head chef's West Indian roots run quietly through an otherwise modern British menu, turning a neighbourhood pub into somewhere you'd actually plan around. The bar side has its own themed cocktail menu, so drinkers aren't an afterthought. Regulars from the surrounding streets mix with people who drove across town, which tells you most of what you need to know.

1. Top 50 Gastropubs 2026 · #93 · Top 50 Gastropubs

The bread and ice cream are made in-house, which tells you something about how seriously this south London gastropub takes the everyday stuff. Seasonal cooking, a natural-leaning wine list, and simple cocktails fill out a room that feels genuinely neighbourhood, not aspirational. The chef's CV runs through St John and The Ledbury, though the food lands closer to comfort than show. The Sunday lunch has a devoted following.

1. Top 50 Gastropubs 2026 · #60 · Top 50 Gastropubs

The charcoal grill does a lot of the talking at this gastropub in Glasgow's West End, where the team behind Cail Bruich have turned a former oyster spot into a proper neighbourhood bar with serious kitchen ambitions. The Michelin Guide handed it a Bib Gourmand, and the cocktail list is long enough to stall any decision about food. The room is cool without trying too hard, and the set menu is where the value quietly announces itself.

1. Top 50 Gastropubs 2026 · #72 · Top 50 Gastropubs
2. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

The dining room here was once a schoolroom, and the hand bell wall lamps haven't let anyone forget it. This Michelin-starred gastropub in a restored Grade II listed inn does serious British cooking, the kind that follows the seasons closely and sources with equal care. The back room looks straight onto the kitchen pass if you want the theatre. The tasting menu is how the kitchen makes its fullest argument.

1. Michelin Guide 1 Star
2. Top 50 Gastropubs 2026 · #52 · Top 50 Gastropubs

An old Cotswold coaching inn where the kitchen, built around a wood-fired grill and rotisserie, is literally the room, with a chef's counter facing the embers. The menu runs on sharing plates and leans heavily on beef aged from named farms, cooked over open fire. Sunday lunch draws regulars from the surrounding villages, and Jay Rayner called the deceptively simple menu "a class act." It landed on the Top 50 Gastropubs list for 2026.

1. Top 50 Gastropubs 2026 · #87 · Top 50 Gastropubs

A Victorian pub in Ancoats that Jay Rayner once called "a great place to eat," with chips cooked in dripping and sourdough dragged through the pan drippings. The kitchen has since changed hands, so what lands on the table now is a question mark, but the room itself, a handsomely restored city boozer with an upstairs restaurant, remains. Craft beer, cask ale, and whisky hold the fort while you find out.

1. Top 50 Gastropubs 2026 · #58 · Top 50 Gastropubs

A log fire, a pint of Arkell's, and a menu that treats a Sunday roast with the same seriousness as the à la carte: this Cotswolds village pub pulls off the gastropub balancing act without seeming to try. The team behind it brings serious fine-dining experience to a room that still feels like a local, which is harder than it sounds. British seasonal cooking, sourced close to home, changes often enough to give regulars a reason to keep coming back.

1. Top 50 Gastropubs 2026 · #54 · Top 50 Gastropubs

Oak beams, stripped floorboards, and a vegetable patch that shapes the menu: this South Downs gastropub changes its kitchen list daily based on what's growing, foraged, or sourced from nearby suppliers. The cooking is serious without the pub having forgotten it's a pub. Three en-suite rooms upstairs make it a reasonable excuse to stay the night and pretend you live somewhere quieter than you do.

1. Top 50 Gastropubs 2026 · #80 · Top 50 Gastropubs

A handsome Bath stone gastropub set opposite a medieval church in a quiet Wiltshire village, where the kitchen runs its own smokehouse, bakes its own bread, and churns its own butter and ice cream. You can stop in for a pint and a scotch egg or sit down to a full seasonal menu that swings between dressed scallops and proper sausage and mash without any apparent anxiety about the contradiction.

1. Top 50 Gastropubs 2026 · #63 · Top 50 Gastropubs
2. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

A Victorian pub in Kentish Town that became one of London's more talked-about gastropubs without appearing to try very hard. The stained-glass windows and long bar stay resolutely pub-like, while the open kitchen behind them turns out wood-fired sharing plates drawn from regenerative farms. The team came up through Brat, and the fire-cooking instincts followed. Sunday roasts, good wine by the glass, and locals who drink without ordering food keep it honest.

1. Top 50 Gastropubs 2026 · #61 · Top 50 Gastropubs
2. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

A Victorian pub on All Saints Road that spent most of its life as an ordinary boozer before a refit made it one of Notting Hill's harder tables to land. The kitchen leans into British ingredients from regenerative farms, cooking them with enough confidence to let a turbot or a tomahawk do its own persuading. Bar snacks, proper ales, and a Michelin Bib Gourmand keep expectations well-calibrated. Book ahead; the locals have already figured this one out.

1. Top 50 Gastropubs 2026 · #65 · Top 50 Gastropubs
2. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

A Grade II-listed former coaching inn in a Cotswolds village, The Royal Oak is a gastropub that has kept its creaky, traditional soul while adding a proper dining room, snugs, and a kitchen that takes seasonal cooking seriously. The menu drifts from pub classics into more ambitious territory without making a fuss about it. Mariella Frostrup once called it a blueprint for the low-key bolthole, which about covers it.

1. Top 50 Gastropubs 2026 · #84 · Top 50 Gastropubs

Tom Kitchin's gastropub in Stockbridge leans into the neighbourhood pub format with enough conviction that it actually works as one. The menu runs on Scottish comfort, haggis and neeps, fish pie loaded with seafood, the kind of food that makes you want to book a table rather than just turn up optimistically. The Michelin Guide gave it a Bib Gourmand, which tracks. Come hungry, and leave room for the rice pudding.

1. Top 50 Gastropubs 2026 · #56 · Top 50 Gastropubs
2. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

The art on the walls ranges from tasteful to genuinely startling, which sets the tone for a place that refuses to be one thing. The Suffield Arms is a Mediterranean gastropub spread across sharply different rooms: a Victorian bar with local ales and a pool table, a plush cocktail saloon upstairs, and a bright tapas restaurant at the back serving patatas bravas, pizzas, and larger plates. It landed on the Top 50 Gastropubs list, which tracks.

1. Top 50 Gastropubs 2026 · #95 · Top 50 Gastropubs

A Devon country pub where the kitchen forages, ferments, and smokes most of what ends up on your plate. The menu reads like a walk across the local landscape, duck fat hash browns alongside venison "sausage" and pickled walnut, with real ale treated as seriously as the food. A monthly communal supper packs strangers around the same table for three family-style courses, which is either your idea of heaven or the reason you book early to avoid it.

1. Top 50 Gastropubs 2026 · #100 · Top 50 Gastropubs

A one-acre kitchen garden, a polytunnel, and an edible orchard sit behind this old Lancashire pub in the Ribble Valley, and most of what lands on the table came from within a short walk of it. The chef behind Northcote runs a seasonal menu that swings between classic and contemporary British, with a Friday chippy tea that draws regulars as loyally as anything on the carte. It's a proper pub that takes the farm-to-fork idea about as seriously as it can.

1. Top 50 Gastropubs 2026 · #70 · Top 50 Gastropubs
2. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

From the outside it reads as a classic Lancashire village pub, and inside it still delivers a proper pint and a genuinely jolly atmosphere. The Michelin-starred White Swan at Fence runs a set menu that lets the kitchen focus on refined, classical cooking built from local and seasonal produce, the kind of food that has no business being this good in a room this relaxed. Regulars and pilgrims from further afield share the same unhurried tables.

1. Michelin Guide 1 Star
2. Top 50 Gastropubs 2026 · #51 · Top 50 Gastropubs

Portraits of historical drunkards and ne'er-do-wells line the walls of this downtown cocktail bar, which sets the tone pretty efficiently. Long shared tables give the room a public-hall looseness, and the menu swings wide, pairing gin martinis and oysters with po'boys and tropical painkillers. The occasional burlesque night confirms that nobody here is pretending this is a quiet spot for serious reflection.

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This is an English-style pub on Belmont, low-ceilinged and wood-beamed, with decades of cigarette smoke apparently still living in the walls. The beer comes in proper 20-ounce pints, there are real metal-tipped darts, and the Scotch eggs and fish and chips have outlasted every menu update. Regulars fill it by evening, and the vintage posters, flags, and brass plaques suggest nobody has felt the need to redecorate since the Reagan administration.

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1. Washingtonian 9 Great Pubs for a Full Irish Breakfast Around DC

1. Washingtonian 9 Great Pubs for a Full Irish Breakfast Around DC

Guinness signs and hand-drawn maps of Ireland cover the walls of this Irish pub and restaurant in the far western suburbs of Phoenix. Fish and chips, corned beef and cabbage, and a full Irish breakfast on weekends anchor the menu. Bartenders know regulars by name, and the event calendar stays busy with live music, karaoke, and trivia nights, which is a lot to offer a neighborhood that doesn't always get this kind of attention.

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Kirwan's is an Irish pub on the Wharf, all dark wood that wouldn't look out of place on a 17th-century naval vessel. Downstairs is for sports fans and conference lanyards pouring Guinness, while an upstairs mezzanine has a closed-off snug and a whiskey room tucked below for anyone who'd like their stout with fewer opinions shouted at it. Shepherd's pie and a spice bag are the order, entry-level pub prices apply.

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An Irish gastropub in Shirlington where the full Irish breakfast runs on weekdays too, not just weekends. The owner is from Tipperary, and it shows: rashers, puddings, beans, eggs, and a potato cake with homemade brown bread on the plate. The kind of place where a pint and a proper fry-up at noon on a Tuesday feels entirely reasonable, which is really the whole point of an Irish pub.

1. Washingtonian 9 Great Pubs for a Full Irish Breakfast Around DC

Pint glasses hang from the ceiling and dollar bills plaster the columns at this Irish pub tucked into the back of a downtown Phoenix hotel. The menu runs shepherd's pie, fish and chips, and beef stew, with Guinness on draft doing most of the heavy lifting. A jug of apple pie shots on the bar suggests the night can go a few different directions. Phoenix New Times named it one of the top 100 bars in the city in 2025.

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Dark wood booths and old-world clutter give this Irish pub on Henderson a genuinely lived-in feel, even though it hasn't been around forever. A covered deck out back shifts the mood from cozy to open-air in about twenty steps. The beer menu runs from Hoegaarden and Paulaner to local Deep Ellum pours, and the food leans classic bar with a Tex-Mex detour. Whoever programs the 80s rock soundtrack is the unsung hero of the operation.

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1. Washingtonian 9 Great Pubs for a Full Irish Breakfast Around DC

1. Washingtonian 9 Great Pubs for a Full Irish Breakfast Around DC

1. Phoenix New Times The Top 100 Bars in Phoenix

1. Washingtonian 9 Great Pubs for a Full Irish Breakfast Around DC

1. Washingtonian 9 Great Pubs for a Full Irish Breakfast Around DC

The Georgian bay window at the front does a lot of the work here, pulling Mayfair's more well-heeled regulars in off Charles Street to lean against it with a pint. This is a proper pub, if a rather polished one, with crisp white linen in the dining room at the back and private floors above for when you need to be discreet about something. The footman of the name is long gone, but the postcode still sets the dress code.

1. Difford's Guide 4.5 stars · Difford's Guide

A carved wooden horse's head peers out from the dark panelled walls, which tells you roughly everything about the vibe here. The Running Horse is an old-school Mayfair pub with bare floorboards, a country-house feel, and a weekday crowd of local office workers piling in after hours. The food is better than it needs to be, but this place has no identity crisis: it knows it's a pub, and leans into that completely.

1. Difford's Guide 4.5 stars · Difford's Guide

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The wooden panels dividing the bar were supposedly salvaged from a ship and once kept different classes of drinker from seeing each other, which tells you something about both the pub's age and its Campden Hill postcode. A proper old-school London pub, all low ceilings and snug corners, in one of the city's more conspicuously wealthy neighborhoods. It draws the kind of locals who've stopped noticing how nice everything is.

1. Difford's Guide 4.5 stars · Difford's Guide