The Coach & Horses, Soho

You'll find yourself wedged into Greek Street, shoulder-to-shoulder with everyone from media types to artists to people who've been coming here since before you were born. The Coach & Horses is the kind of place where the bartender knows what you drink before you order, where the walls have absorbed decades of London chat, and where the beer is cold and the banter is colder. It's not trying to be anything it isn't—no craft cocktail menu, no Instagram-bait, just proper pub culture doing what it does best. Come for a swift pint after work, stay because you've got caught up in a conversation about whether the new place round the corner is ruining Soho (spoiler: locals will have opinions).