Public houses, taverns, and bars—places to drink, yes, but also to eat and meet the locals (families are welcome in most pubs outside the big cities)
General: Pub
A classic Oxford pub with outdoor seating and pub grub right in the heart of town
Favorite Southwark pub filled with cozy snugs and literary associations just a block from Shakespeare's Globe
A 17th century pub and National Trust Landmark, set on the ground floor of an old coaching inn
A 16th century pub on Hampstead Heath that inspired Keats, Dickens, and Stoker
Breakfast at London's Fox & Anchor pub comes with a pint of Guinness and the company of the slaughterhouse workers
A quick stop for cheap pub grub right across from the British Museum
Eight elegant, bookish-themed B&B rooms above a gourmet pub in Clerkenwell
Dryden’s old haunt is still called “Bucket of Blood” from its rowdier days—though since bouncers now keep out the football hooligans, its rowdiness is mostly just the noise level
The pub where the Inklings once met (Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and others)
A rambling, 150-year-old Greenwich pub with decent grub, Dickens associations, and a small terrace overlooking the Thames
