The best way to start to inform about pubs and clubs in London is to separate them into three categories. There are traditional Pubs, Bars and Dance Clubs.
Traditional pubs can be found all over London and come in many guises. You have the “spit and sawdust” smoke stained, dingy establishments that seem to cater for the habitual drinkers that start to get tanked up at 11 in the morning and fall out at 4 in the afternoon. Then there is the respectable made over pubs with stained glass windows and polished timber that fills at lunch time and early evening with the blue collar businessman type. Sports fans love these establishments as they generally have several large screened t v sets. Food can be pretty good in these pubs from basic “ Bangers and Mash “ to Nouvelle cuisine. Most pubs have histories as glorious as the city itself.

Bars have sprung up on virtually every street corner throughout the City. Full of chrome, mirrors and trendy interiors, like the people that frequent them. Usually young and impressive they fill to overflowing, but make sure you have a healthy wallet.

Clubs, themselves, can be split into two categories. Big, funky places where hunks in suits stand like gargoyles on either side of the entrances, or dark sweaty dance bars to have fun in rather than pose.
With 1100 pubs and bars and nearly as many clubs in the city area alone, it’s easy to say you’re spoilt for choice. Recommending a few in each category would be difficult. Suffice to say “just walk along the street, go in, if you don’t like it you can be assured there will be another within a few yards”