Simon The Tanner

Walk into Simon The Tanner and you're in proper local territory. This is a pub that knows what it's doing—the kind of place where regulars perch at the bar nursing their pints while others tuck into proper grub in the wood-panelled interior. You're just south of Borough Market in SE1, surrounded by the kind of independent shops and cafes that make this stretch of South London actually worth the trip. The food's straightforward and honest, the sort of thing you want after a long day, and they clearly take their beer seriously without making a song and dance about it.