We're doing an alphabetical pub crawl of London. This month, we're up to part 'V' and have selected the nearby areas of Victoria and Vauxhall, forming a victory sandwich with a Pimlico filling. We asked you to vote for your favourite pubs in the area, and we can now reveal the results...and they're rather one-sided. Venues in Victoria got far more votes than places the other side of the river. We're not sure why. Vauxhall has some fine pubs — perhaps a higher proportion of readers are familiar with Victoria. Dunno. But we follow the readers' votes, so this is effectively going to be a Victoria pub crawl — we'll do a dedicated Vauxhall crawl at some future point.
See further down the article for how to join us on the pub crawl.
The Top 10 Pubs In Victoria, Pimlico and Vauxhall
1. Cask Bar and Kitchen (62 votes)
2. The Phoenix (19 votes)
=3. The Marquis of Westminster (15 votes)
=3. The Queen's Arms (15 votes)
5. The Speaker (12 votes)
6. The Windsor Castle (11 votes)
7. The Fentiman Arms (9 votes)
8. Cask & Glass (8 votes)
=9. The Jugged Hare (7 votes)
=9. St George's Tavern (7 votes)
=9. Morpeth Arms (7 votes)
So Cask bar runs away with it.
Map of Nominated Pubs
Green stars are our top places, which we'll visit on the pub crawl; red pins indicate other nominations. Note: a red pin doesn't mean it's a bad pub — in every case, at least one person nominated it as their favourite.
The Pub Crawl
The pub crawl will take place on Wednesday 29 January. If you'd like to come along, please email [email protected], so we can keep an eye on numbers. Here's the schedule...
From 6pm: meet in The Phoenix
7.30pm: Marquis of Westminster
8.30pm: Queen's Arms
9.30 till late: Cask Bar
The A-Z pub crawl
- A = Angel
- B = Brixton
- C = City of London
- D = Dalston
- E = Euston
- F = Farringdon and Clerkenwell
- G = Greenwich
- H = Hampstead and Highgate
- I = Isle of Dogs
- J = St James’s and Mayfair
- K = Kennington and Oval
- L = Limehouse and Wapping
- M = Marylebone
- N = Notting Hill
- O = Old Street
- P = Peckham and Camberwell
- Q = Queen’s Park and Kilburn
- R = Richmond
- S = Stoke Newington
- T = Thames
- U = Unusual pubs
- V = Victoria, Pimlico and Vauxhall
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