The best Sunday sessions in London
Ten London pubs and dining rooms built for a proper Sunday session: roasts, pies, pints and a table you can hold from midday until the lights come on. Every one is picked by us, locals who actually drink in them and pay for their own gravy. Clear the diary, this isn't a quick one.
Sunday here starts with the canal walk and ends with Guinness cake. Roast or full Irish, both deliver, and the cocktail list will keep you in that chair long after the plates have gone.
Not a roast, and that's the point. Roll in late afternoon for the beef ragu toastie, the 'nduja olives and a bottle of something natural. It's spenny, so make it the one big Sunday.
Balcony pints in the sun is most of what a Sunday needs. Just remember it shuts at ten sharp, so line up your last stop before you get too comfortable.
The session in its purest form: 10 cask lines, a toastie, a third-party pie and absolutely nowhere to be. Warm brown ale in a handled glass, thanks.
A Guinness in the walled garden with the Roman Road ticking along outside. Old regulars one side, young ones the other, nobody going anywhere before dark.
Roast first, pool after. Get your £1 coins down on the table before your spuds arrive, because the Sunday queue builds fast in here.
Leafy triangle garden in summer, big warm room in winter, pub plates all year. Turn up before the match crowd and that table is yours until closing.
Pie and mash instead of a roast and nobody's complaining. Hand-made pies, a pint, an afternoon that needs no second act. Still no jellied eels.
Live jazz on a Sunday makes this the staying-put champion. Cash only, so hit the machine on the way, then don't move for three hours.
One of London's biggest beer gardens, which means an actual shot at a table on a Sunday. Book it if the sun's out, otherwise get there early and hold the corner.
Every place on Nuff has been visited and chosen by us. Real people who love London's food, pubs and culture. Tried, tested and argued over. No ads, no algorithms, nothing pay-to-play.
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