alternative pub crawl

Starting point: The Grapes in the docklands / photo by Rachel H

Alternative Pub Crawls: Charles Dickens

We took a trip round six pubs that have a connection to London’s greatest storyteller.

Street party at the William IV

Alternative Pub Crawls: Royal Wedding

Grab a flag and wave it round this pub crawl – or just attempt to obliviate the whole damn spectacle.

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Join Us On A Royal Wedding Pub Crawl Later Today

Londonist is loading up with flags and off to raise a glass or two to William and Kate.

The Lord Clyde, in all its Victorian glory.

Alternative Pub Crawls: 12 Days Of Christmas

12 pubs? In one day? All themed around the presents My True Love gave to me at Christmas? It’ll never work.

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Pub Crawl For Medecins Sans Frontieres

This Saturday, 10th July – pre World Cup play off – how about an afternoon of clues, beers, fun, silliness and a little charity awareness pub crawling treasure hunting around Clapham in aid of Medecins Sans Frontieres? If you can muster up to 3 friends …

Outside the Globe, resolutely closed / photo by Rachel

Alternative Pub Crawls: Shakespeare

Once more unto the bar, dear friends, once more.

One of the commemorative tickets handed out to 10,000 passengers on the first day of the new service.

Alternative Pub Crawls: The East London Line Extension

Sunday, as you’re probably sick of reading by now, saw the opening of the new Overground link through south-east London. We decided to celebrate in the way we know best: with a pub crawl. Not along the WHOLE line, of course. We’re not superhuman. Instead, …

View from the Lords Bar terrace (strictly no entry)

Alternative Pub Crawls: The Houses Of Parliament

Politicians and journalists have a reputation for enjoying a drink from time to time. No surprise, then, to learn that there are more bars around the centre of government than in your typical high street. With a daily population in excess of 10,000 people, many …

The Coach and Horses plus friend. Image by M@.

Alternative Pub Crawls: Tudor Boozers

Thanks to the Great Fire and other calamities, Central London has very few surviving Tudor buildings, and not a single extant Tudor pub. But you can still stitch together a very jolly crawl around some of the finer ‘mock Tudor’ venues of Zone 1. 1. …

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Free This Afternoon?

A group of Londonist contributors and friends will be out creating another Alternative Pub Crawl. With the whiff of Valentine’s Day still lingering behind us and a generally pervy bent of mind, we are creating the fairly phallocentric Rude and Lewd Pub Crawl. Starting at …

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Alternative Pub Crawls: The Blue Posts

Ever noticed the West End preponderance of drinking dens called ‘The Blue Posts’? There are three in Soho alone, plus one in St James and one in Fitzrovia. A sixth on the corner of Tottenham Court Road and Hanway Street closed down about 10 years …