This historic area of town contains perhaps the highest concentration of good pubs in London. Those featured here include the top 10 as voted for by Londonist readers, plus some favourites of our own.
There are others, so please nominate your favourites in the comments below.
The Charles Dickens is good local pub, in Union Street. Boot & Flogger too, in Redcross Way, is a fun and interesting wine pub.
The Wheat sheaf Bought Market is a Great Pub with great real ale the London Gold is always on form
The Old King's Head, King's Head Yard. A working class, no nonsense boozer, away from the traffic and tourists, and a pint of decent lager for less than £3 during extensive happy hours. It's become a bit of a 'Thursday is the new Friday' tradition for me and a few friends. Most people would turn their gastro nose up at it- but that's just the way we like it.
Also Katzenjammers, 24 Southwark Street. German beer hall rather than a pub though?
Rake. Enough said. Best in class. Even if it is tiny.