Booze might now be banned on public transport, but that doesn't stop us getting trolleyed in the stations. The Betjeman Arms recently opened at St Pancras, bringing a much-needed touch of class to London's catalogue of terminus taprooms. To celebrate, we decided to go on a campaign for rail ale. Despite objections from our livers and serious renal remonstrance, we spent last Saturday working our way though a laevorotatory pub crawl of the major......

Every month, the folks at Fancyapint? get together to vote for their top ten favourite pubs. These are recently visited pubs that for one reason or another (the ambience, the booze, the company) stuck in their collective memory. Kindly, these booze-savvy Fancyapinters have decided to share their latest picks with Londonist and all our readers. Cheers! Here’s the current list from Fancyapint? in no particular order of merit. They assure us that all ten......

Chris at Cheese and Biscuits, lists the top ten things he hates about London restaurants. We heartily agree with point #10. Stonch’s Beer Blog takes its readers on an 1881 pub crawl in Clerkenwell. The ladies at Cupcakes Take the Cake interview the owner of Kensington’s Buttercup Cake Shop. An American in London has a ocakbasi overdose in Dalston. Photography by Chris Osburn © 2008......

January is a toughie. Torn between new year's virtue and that rebellious streak? Well, here are some things to amuse you that at least wont tug too hard at your purse strings. Monday: Witch hunts to start the week at Gresham College from 6pm. Free knowledge. Tuesday: Are you a tech geek? Are you interested in search engines, the internet and web technology? Do you need to make more friends? Well, pitch up for......

Tube stop pub crawls seem like a great idea, especially when you’ve already had a few and are enthusiastically planning the next lot of drinking high jinx, possibly in fancy dress. However, the reality of getting round even the most popular Circle Line pub crawl (27 pubs, 28 drinks in 12 hours) ceases feeling like fun by about stop 10 when all you want to do is sit down and sleep and never, ever......

How did we miss the fact that it's National Pub Week? Ok, so CAMRA have a bit of way to go before they lose the beard-stroking, 'I've got my own tankard I have' image but with the onslaught of crappy, generic chain drinkeries we need all the proper pub-lovers we can get, plus the fact that they've just brought out a London Pub Walks book doesn't hurt either. The book is billed as a......

TV is going monster mad this week, in the run-up to Halloween. There are vampires (The Real Vampire Chronicles, Tue 10.55pm C4 - about Allan Menzies, the maladjusted Anne Rice fan who took his Vampire: The Masquerade LARPing way, way too seriously), demons (The Curse Of The Omen, Wed 11.05pm C4 - investigating the supposed jinx that has struck the cast and crew of the son-of-Satan-in-suburbia film), mummies (Egypt, Sun 9pm BBC1 - featuring,......

Over the next couple of weeks Londonist will be trying to highlight a few things to do on Halloween night. No, we don't think we should start treating this 'holiday' as seriously as the Americans do, but there has to be a better option than staying in and ignoring trick or treaters or just going down the pub and drinking until it's over. For example: the Crawl of the Dead. The Crawl of the......

Sitting in a pub, swapping stories with a bunch of strangers while sipping a pint is generally agreed to be a pleasant way to spend an evening. Even better if it’s a pub like the George Inn, London’s only surviving galleried coaching inn nestled behind Borough High Street in its own little cobbled courtyard. Park yourself on one of the benches outside with a tankard of foaming ale and you could well believe that......