{"id":876686,"date":"2026-04-06T22:23:52","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T22:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/876686\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T22:23:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T22:23:52","slug":"the-8-london-pubs-nominated-in-the-2026-national-pub-bar-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/876686\/","title":{"rendered":"The 8 London Pubs Nominated in the 2026 National Pub &#038; Bar Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The annual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalpubandbarawards.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">National Pub &amp; Bar Awards<\/a> nominees have just been announced, and eight <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/london\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">London<\/a> pubs have made the list of 252 pubs and bars across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland vying for pub supremacy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The County and Regional Winners will be announced on June 10 at an event in London, as well as the overall big dog,\u00a0AKA the National Pub &amp; Bar of the Year. The National Pub &amp; Bar Awards are run by Pub &amp; Bar magazine and they\u2019re intended, as you may have guessed from the name, to celebrate the best of Britain\u2019s boozers.<\/p>\n<p>The London offering is a varied bag of boozers and bars, with nominees split into two \u2018regions\u2019, with three drinking establishments in the City of London and five in Greater London making the grade. <\/p>\n<p>In the City of London we have <strong>Liverpool Street Chop House &amp; Tavern<\/strong>, <strong>Roxy Ball Room St Mary Axe<\/strong> and <strong>The Star by Liverpool Street<\/strong>. All of the City shortlisted bars are relatively new, with Liverpool Street Chop House &amp; Tavern and Roxy Ball Room St Mary Axe only opening last year, and The Star by Liverpool Street launching in 2022.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Greater London finalists are revamped Victorian pub <strong>The Lord Northbrook<\/strong> in Lee, JKS Restaurants gastropub <strong>The George<\/strong> in Fitzrovia, <strong>The Orange<\/strong> in Belgravia, and posh Notting Hill gastros <strong>The Pelican<\/strong> and <strong>Walmer Castle<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The ceremony will also include an Industry\u2019s Choice Award, a top 10 of pubs voted for separately by 400 judges from the world of hospitality, as well as a consumer-voted Pub Group of the Year and Bar Group of the Year award.<\/p>\n<p><strong>London pubs nominated in the 2025 National Pub &amp; Bar Awards\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>City of London<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>Liverpool Street Chop House &amp; Tavern<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>Roxy Ball Room St Mary Axe\u00a0<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>The Star by Liverpool Street.<\/li>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Greater London<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>Lord Northbrook, Lee<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>The George, Fitzrovia<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>The Orange, Belgravia\u00a0<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>The Pelican, Notting Hill<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>The Walmer Castle, Notting Hill<\/li>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/london\/news\/the-best-pub-in-london-has-been-crowned-for-2025-062525\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Last year The Red Lion &amp; Sun in Highgate was named London Pub &amp; Bar of the Year<\/a>, while Soho\u2019s The Devonshire scored the Industry\u2019s Choice Award. The overall winner was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/uk\/hotels\/the-bull\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Bull in Charlbury<\/a>, which was named the UK\u2019s best pub.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Get the latest and greatest from the Big Smoke \u2013 from news and reviews to events and trends. Just\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VabxG0jK0IBqoptkHH3i\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">follow our Time Out London WhatsApp channel<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Stay in the loop: sign up to our<a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/london\/newsletter?cid=lon~editorial~acquisition~newsletter~contentlink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0free Time Out London newsletter<\/a>\u00a0for the best of the city, straight to your inbox.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The annual National Pub &amp; Bar Awards nominees have just been announced, and eight London pubs have made&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,13285,393,4884,257,15144,280,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-876686","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-categories-restaurants","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-london","13":"tag-news-drinking","14":"tag-restaurants","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116360109432357938","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=876686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}