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Nightlife

Practical London guides tagged Nightlife.

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The glass front of BAM Karaoke Box on Victoria Street, with green parasols over a pavement terrace, signs reading Private Karaoke and Cocktail Bars, and a jungle-print mural on the floor above

Things to do

The Best Karaoke in London: Private Rooms, KTV and Pub Nights, Cross-Referenced Across Every Major List

Private karaoke rooms, Korean and Chinese KTV and free pub karaoke nights in London, ranked by how many independent sources name them, with room sizes, prices and closing times from each venue.

  • Karaoke
  • Nightlife
  • Bars
  • Groups
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A long wooden bar with drawer fronts and iron hooks, bentwood stools, bare brick walls and old ceiling joists, with leather armchairs at the back of the room

Food and drink

The Best Speakeasy Bars in London: Fridge Doors, Bookcases and Passwords, Cross-Referenced Across Every Major List

Through a fridge, behind a bookcase, past a detective's desk or down to a door marked 007: London's hidden bars, ranked by how many independent awards, lists, videos and Londoners name them.

  • Speakeasy bars
  • Hidden bars
  • Secret bars
  • Cocktail bars
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A lit Christmas tree hung with gold baubles covering the front of Annabel's at night on Berkeley Square, with a black cab passing in the foreground

Things to do

Private Members' Clubs in London: Fees, Dress Codes and How to Get In

London's private members' clubs, from Soho House and Annabel's to the St James's gentlemen's clubs: what each costs to join in 2026, how to apply, the dress codes and phone rules, and what a visitor can book without a membership.

  • Members' clubs
  • Mayfair
  • Soho
  • Nightlife
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A bottomless brunch table: two people raising cocktails over a full English, eggs royale, pancakes and an espresso martini

Food and drink

Bottomless Brunch in London: Deals Compared by Price and Time

London bottomless brunch prices side by side: the cost, the time limit, what the drinks list covers and the small print that shortens your session.

  • Bottomless brunch
  • Brunch
  • Food and drink
  • Money saving
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Neon-lit alien-themed rides and arcade machines inside Babylon Park in Camden

Things to do

Competitive Socialising in London: Darts, Golf and Immersive Games

An escape room inside a disused Tube station, twenty-one glass cubes from the television show, and a 1990s video rental shop rebuilt in full.

  • Things to do
  • Activities
  • Groups
  • Nightlife
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A comedian on the small stage at Always Be Comedy in Kennington, working a packed room from a few feet away

Things to do

The Best Comedy Clubs in London: 17 Nights, 8 Venues and 4 Festivals

Where alternative comedy started in 1979, a pub running free stand-up seven nights a week, the theatres that book the touring names, and why every London comedy festival lands in the same six weeks.

  • Comedy
  • Nightlife
  • Things to do
  • Cheap eats
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The Jazz Cafe in Camden, its white stucco frontage lettered London's Famous Jazz Venue

Things to do

The Best Live Music Venues in London, Compared

A Victorian railway turning shed, a veterans' club with a gold tinsel curtain, and the sloping floor at Brixton that bands talk about — London's music rooms.

  • Live music
  • Music venues
  • Nightlife
  • Things to do
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Three amber cocktails at A Bar with Shapes for a Name, on coasters cut as a yellow triangle, a red square and a blue circle

Food and drink

The Best Cocktail Bars in London, Compared

Where the Savoy Cocktail Book was written, a martini mixed at your table from a trolley, and a two-drink limit enforced because the martinis are poured neat — London's best bars.

  • Cocktail bars
  • Bars
  • Nightlife
  • Drinks
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The Churchill Arms on Kensington Church Street, its whole frontage covered in hanging flower baskets and Union flags, with a crowd drinking outside

Food and drink

The Most Beautiful Pubs in London, Cross-Referenced Across Every Major List

The most beautiful pubs in London: The Churchill Arms for its flowers, The Blackfriar and The Princess Louise for their interiors, and which close on Sundays.

  • Pubs
  • Architecture
  • History
  • Photography
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The cast of Beetlejuice taking their curtain call at the Prince Edward Theatre, lit in green and blue, with the Maitland house tilting above them and the sandworm reared up at the side of the stage

Things to do

Halloween in London: Events, Parties and Where to Get a Costume

What to do in London for Halloween 2026, from scare attractions and light trails to club nights and ghost tours — plus where you can still hire a proper costume.

  • Halloween
  • Things to do
  • London experiences
  • Nightlife
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The dining room at Duck & Waffle, forty floors up in the Heron Tower, with floor-to-ceiling windows over the City at dusk

Food and drink

Late-Night Eating in London: Where to Eat After Midnight

A 24-hour caff with no front door, Whitechapel lamb chops and a fry-up forty floors up — where London feeds you late.

  • Restaurants
  • Late night
  • Cheap eats
  • Nightlife
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The Market Porter's green Victorian frontage at Borough Market, with a chalkboard advertising its 6am to 9am early morning opening

Food and drink

The Best Craft Beer Pubs in London, Cross-Referenced Across Every Major List

There's no single London-wide CAMRA Pub of the Year — the branches judge separately. Thirty-four sources, 325 pubs, breweries and taprooms, and the CAMRA branch winners nobody puts on one list.

  • Pubs
  • Beer
  • Craft beer
  • Real ale
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