The Fitzroy

A historic Fitzrovia corner pub where Dylan Thomas drank and George Orwell too — the original Victorian curved-glass windows still intact, the cask ale still well-kept. This is a proper pub, not a cocktail bar: order a well-kept cask ale and settle in. Come in the afternoon when it is quiet, when the literary ghosts seem to prefer the daylight, and the room's history has space to breathe. It is a genuine piece of London's literary geography, still functioning exactly as a good pub should — the kind of place where the past sits comfortably alongside the present pint.