As a Scot, I can confirm her bar etiquette is faultless! 👌🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

You forgot the most important rule. The thing that binds all British people regardless of colour,creed,sexuality, gender. Shouting 'WHHHEEEEY' when someone drops a glass and it smashes 😄

Been here for 4 days now, visited about 17 pubs. 😁🍺

I work in a visitor facing role in London and when I speak to world visitors, especially from the US and Australia, they usually ask for pub recommendations. I first tell them to try and go to an area outside of the tourist traps if they can! I’m an ale drinker so I do suggest trying an ale on hand pump, which was not covered here. The beer US drinkers are used to is the colder draft ‘tap’ beers (Craft ales) and there are plenty to choose from in London - most established breweries in London (Young’s, Fuller’s etc) have their own craft ales and smaller independents often do as well. The hand pump ales are the ‘warmer’ beers (Real ales/cask ales) that come in as great a variety as the craft ones. These are the traditional ales of the U.K., brewed without - in the case of craft ales - killing the yeast. Real ales are only ‘warm’ in comparison to the craft ales. In reality, their temperature is designed to be between 11-13 degrees Celsius (55 Fahrenheit), or ‘cellar temperature’. This makes real ales a lot more difficult to keep than craft ales. But if a US drinker wants a really authentic British beer, it’s the real ale they should try even if it’s just the once. Just like craft ales, they come in a huge variety from IPAs, APAs, Golden Ale and Bitters, to Red Ales, Milds, Stouts and Porters. If you find yourself in a pub where you have to choose which real ale to have, I would recommend avoiding the chain real ales like Greene King (Abbot Ale, Greene King IPA) - these are not a good introduction to real ale! Ales like London Pride and Doombar are everywhere and as such the quality is variable. If you can, always find ales from local London independents like Truman’s, Redemption, Southwark and Portobello. Some pub chains like Wetherspoons, Nicholson’s and Greene King do offer ales from these independents so they have an outlet. Also, if you’re visiting London at the start of August, look out for the Great British Beer Festival, held every year at Kensington Olympia - a chance to try Real and Craft ales from around the U.K. Enjoy your visit to our pubs!

I would say it's more common for there not to be a 'queue' as such at a bar - everyone stands at the bar, and etiquette is to defer to those who were there before you when the bar-person asks

Watched a ton of your videos before visiting the past couple of weeks and this was one of the best ones to prepare me before stepping foot in a pub! One thing that might be useful in an updated video is taking note of table numbers since all the pubs I went to asked what table number I was sitting at, particularly when ordering food. Thanks again for your great content!

when my wife and visit london (we have done it twice), we have a beer a day challenge. Basically, we will go to a pub (usually a different one each time) and order a different pint of beer or cider at each pub. By the end of our trip we vote on which one we like. Its a great way to taste different drinks. And like you mention, pubs can have some of th best food as well. Sunday Roast is not to be missed.

Glad you like early evening. Where l live we call it Early Doors. It’s not too busy, people are unwinding from work and it’s a good time to have a nice relaxing chat

Thank your for the wonderful information, Jess. Doing my first trip to London in a couple of weeks and can't wait!

Well done! Watched a lot of your videos and you are spot on with all of them!

Hi Jess, I love watching your videos. So helpful! My daughter moved there 7 weeks ago, we are so looking forward to seeing her in 5 days and exploring that fabulous city

Planning on visiting London with my son (11 years old) and wanted to thank you for your videos. I have learned a lot watching your videos and this has prepared me for better planning my trip to beautiful London. Thanks 🍻

If you are ordering food at the bar, make sure you find a table first and save a seat. Also note the table number as this is the way they know where to bring your food. It is interesting to note that the vast majority of pubs are owned by large chains that have locations across the country. The food and beer offerings are generally the same at all of their locations.

Just leaving London after a couple days here. Thanks for all your helpful tips. The 10 Cases was an excellent stop. We stumbled upon The George Inn near London Bridge for food and drink before the flotilla tribute to the Queen last night. Great atmosphere and historic building.

Churchill Arms is a delightful pub. It's connected to a wonderful Thai restaurant that looks like a fern bar circa 1978 but the food is legit.

Love watching her get more buzzed as the video goes on!

Well done. Covers the basics but there's so much more.

Can't wait to come for my birthday ...loving the content @love and london

Thank you kindly for sharing, Jess!

Really good video. Defo recommend taking this on board if you're coming to the UK in general. Top tip; when ordering a round always order your guiness, if anyone is drinking it, first then ale then lager then shorts. Bar person will thank you for it.

Great job, Jess! You didn't even start slurring your words towards the end - lol!

Visited London last month and a must do was to visit a pub. Went to the Town of Ramsgate at Wapping as it is one of the oldest pubs in London.

Good information about the drinks! Thanks for this video!!

Planning my first two trips to London this July and September ‘23. Much appreciated! ❤

So many wonderful pubs in London, from the Holly Bush to the Dove (and some of the best are Fullers pubs too !). Guess if you made this video in one day you were pretty merry by the end of it ! Thanks for your enlightening videos Jess

Another thing worth learning is what the options are if you are sober or aren't drinking as much. You can get any drink from the taps as a half pint which is exactly half the price. A shandy is half beer half lemonade. There is always soft drinks/mixers on tap - cola, diet cola, lemonade, soda water, tonic, lime cordial and blackcurrant cordial. Lime/Blackcurrant & Soda is a popular cheap soft drink instead of a pint, and it's also common to have Lager & Lime or Cider & Blackcurrant

I just completed a 7-day trip to London, and your videos helped me to prepare. This particular video gave me the confidence to enter a couple of pubs. I ordered fish and chips in one. At the other, I actually got a pint of beer recommended by the bar tender. I confidently went outside to get a table and while I was enjoying my drink (no ice) I thought of ordering bangers and mash, a must do for me. So thanks!

I was at the Kings Head on Moscow Road in Bayswater on July 4th, 2003. While at the bar for a second pint I was approached by a local who, hearing my American "accent", congratulated me on our Revolution. He was pretty loaded. Had bangers and mash for dinner there. Best all around experience was in Thirsk, where after getting a bed an breakfast spot we ended up in The Black Bull, intrigued by the signboard out front featuring a "giant Yorkshire pudding" as the special. We each ordered one. The things were the size of a pie, but really good. Only one other customer in the place sipping on a Strongbow. The waiter and the cook spent idle time playing darts and smoking.

I bought your 3-day itinerary for London and it helped so much! The oyster card was a life saver too! I enjoyed my b-day there and your Itinerary added to it, so thank you!

I love your selection.

Thanks! And I'll be doing just that in a little over a week!

What a great video!

That was a good drink session for the day. Cheers.

“Don’t be on your phone or they’ll pass right over you”. Love it! Good advice and that’s the way it should be 😁

Nothing quite like a good pub crawl,,, and cheers,,, mine is definitely a Rattler Cider.

Even as a Londoner, this video is very informative and practical in all advice given 👍

Loved it. Cheers!

Like the video. I see pubs as a social thing, although my dad used to go in by himself, I think he was adicted to them. I hardly go in to pubs, but do love cold beer and cider.

Really good video.

saw that L&L will launch tours starting november

Hi! I love your videos! I’m going to London end of October so these videos have been helping a lot. You should make videos on fun things to do for each holiday like Halloween and Christmas!

Nice video gal, the spots look airy & trendy

Dropping in from rainham....Had quite a chat about bavarian brews with a chap that, well yknow, knows it all, of course.....I was quite surprised as he very generously treated me to several pints of busch beer....I have to admit i was impressed by its flavour....I had me doubts, always thought it to be a cheap beer....I have changed me mind....Always have had the higher brews, going busch now !!!

These videos are great, particularly since I’ll be staying in Kensington and heading to a Chelsea match. Glad I found your channel👍🏻👍🏻

Love your videos Jess, but a Japanese Import on draft when you've got all those amazing English lagers on cask to chose from! Ha! Just teasing you. Thanks for the vids.

Wow the church hill arms pub looks nice I'll probably go there when I come to London

That’s a great video ! A yank that gets the pub scene in the UK, superb !!! 👌😉

Very helpful. We’ll be there in three days.

What a wonderful video

thank you!!! I was sooo confused when I just got here, I didnt know how it worked! hahaha

One stop from Kings Cross in Central London is Angel tube station. You will find proper pubs here that do proper traditional English food. Not too far off the beaten track but more of a feel of what Londoners do in their spare time. Why did I get the feeling you were in your element in a pub Jess! I am not even a tourist but love your work, promoting London. With the dollar exchange rates your compatriots will find London cheaper right now.

I just loved the UK pub culture whilst I was working for a year in London. The chilled out atmosphere at every pub detaches you from the daily grind and is a nice way to decompress. With inflationary pressures throughout the world, I'm not sure whether it is an affordable affair now or not.

Thank you for another great video. You handle your drink a lot better than me, barely noticed any effects after all those drinks, lol :P

100% of the content of this channel is spot-on. I’m an American who has been blessed with business and leisure travel all over Europe, often with stops in London or Edinburgh. On business travel, I directly interacted with Londoners and they would echo all of what is contained in this video. Don’t be scared. Go to the pub, wait in queue, order your beer, talk to the Brit’s. They will want to know more about you than you can imagine. As an American, Tell them where you’re from and then ask them (just as the host said, about anything that you would like to learn/go to/eat at in London. You’ll have a new friend.

Been to London a couple times now, and this all checks out. The one thing I struggle with--as a solo traveler--is how to order food for my table. Ideally you leave your stuff at a table so no-one sits at it while you're ordering (since you have to tell the bartender where to send the food)--however, if you're traveling solo, you'll see a lot of signs warning you /not/ to leave your stuff unattended. So that can be fun--at least at the pubs that don't have a dedicated restaurant section.

This is awesome, Especially for us that get anxious. I want to go to the UK just to go to a pub lol.

Well done video. Prices don't appear to be insane as I thought it might be (London). Great tips, can't wait to jet over. Cheers...

Pubs are beautiful in London, the atmosphere at tines is great...especially in Central London at 5pm-6pm when the after work crowd shows up and the pubs are packed with atmosphere. However it's true, like many things in the city, they aren't open that late, it's normal for most pubs to close at 11pm...some midnight, if you think your going to do a pub crawl night out starting at 10pm you won't get to far....you'll end up needing to find a club to keep drinking for a later night. I found people go out much earlier for drinks in England then I experience in North America, so if you do a pub crawl, your night out starts a lot earlier then you might be use to in USA for example.

as a bartender in london myself, this is a very well put together and perfect guide! thank you!

Head up here to Stroud Green and visit us in The Stapleton Tavern!

I love cider! Here in the states (Southern California) it’s hard to find on tap.

Great video. We don’t always say cheers tbh, but it is something people can do, especially for the first drink. Queues at a bar are often along the line of the bar. You can join anywhere along the bar where there is space, but you’re expected to know who was there before you and who came after so you don’t jump the queue. I would add to this real ales. I’m not personally a beer drinker, but the best pubs (as in atmosphere, aesthetic etc) do seem to serve the best ales. If you like different types of beers, definitely worth checking out if the pub sells beer from local breweries too.

Because the cider in the UK is phenomenal!

If u haven’t tried it yet, you should go to Giuseppe’s Italian Restaurant in London..Giuseppeis a fantastic person/owner and is a great pub/restaurant. We were there several times on our visit there in 2018

Oh, I didn't know about the cider. Another lesson learned. I also like to drink cider.

I watched this and I'm from England just see if she's right and she isn't wrong cheers bab 🍻

My dream visit to London

I think Jess does an amazing job!! Being a Londoner, I love her content! Not just a pretty!

A very helpful vlog for visitors from the USA though I thought you might have mentioned the legal drinking age is 18.

Actually, I've been in pubs before, just here in Montreal and one in Toronto (and I've been to the Bull & Finch Pub in Boston, which the exterior was the setting for Cheers!). I'm happy that point #9 answered my question for me. My wife and I will be travelling to Paris for two weeks in July and we're going to London for a short, almost 48 hours trip via the Eurostar. We will also have our son who will be turning 15 next month, so I'll push to have dinner at a pub for the first day. Second day we have to be at St. Pancras for 4:30pm for our train back to Paris at 6:01pm to pass security and customs. Cheers!

Damn! The Windsor is still open? My friends and I would go there on a Friday / Saturday night in the early 90’s.. hell this brings back memories!!

You are a fabulous presenter I’m pretty critical, so thank you. Visiting London next summer, so can’t wait. Is July really that bad? 0:01

I find in London, it’s the only place in the UK where they form an orderly line at the bar. Don’t be surprised if you venture outside of London (which you should) and it’s more of a free-for-all. The bars are long for a reason!

Cheers 🍻

The best ones are in the small towns and villages outside London, if you get that opportunity

Fun fact: Historically, pubs were open early and all day, and people would have a beer for breakfast. This was restricted during morning and afternoon times when World War I came around, to not interfere with the war effort. Eventually laws were loosened again in 1988.

Heading over to London from Ireland next May, really looking forward to it. My daughter and I are looking forward to the "tourist trap" Harry Potter experience, after that? I'll watch more of your videos before I decide....

You done well

I had the occasion to sample some British pubs while in the U.S. military service in the mid-late 1970s, deployed there on training exercises, mainly. I generally would order either a 'shandy, or what was then called a 'lager and lime'. Is the latter still commonly served most everywhere?

Wow !

I was in The Churchill Arms September 23 one day after you shot your video... Cozy place, lovely...

This has to be the cutest video ever!! Lol .. for a good pub don’t be afraid to wonder out of the tourist areas! Things to also note: when the footballs on don’t block the screen, or speak over the commentary! You cheeseheads may be passionate, but football is tribal in the uk. If you’re as beautiful as Jess you’ll have no problem chatting to folks, if not don’t worry! The vast majority of folks love some friendly banter and on way to start is to talk about the weather!

Nice vlog.......

There's a fish and chip place in my town here in America that has a pub atmosphere and keeps a ton of classic English beer on tap. I love to go there and pretend I'm in London again. Sadly last time I went to Europe I was 13 so I couldn't enjoy the beer. Did have some excellent pub food though

That part about Cider slightly surprised me. I know Real/Craft Ale pubs also tend to do a Lot of Ciders too, didn't realise that was the split though as most people I know seem to be beer drinkers. Made me happy as a Cider drinker though. :)

Ah, Churchill Arms! Never expected to have the best Thai food at a London Pub!!! Is there an easy way to find out if the Pub is a chain or local? Loved Zetland Arms in S. Kensington.

Don't be afraid to order a half (of a pint) of beer, cider or perry (pear cider). Very acceptable and a great way to try a variety of drinks. And if you are ordering food at the bar, don't forget to check for your table number!

London is very lucky as it still has plenty of pubs to choose from, and I think all the pubs featured in your video are in London. However, the situation in the rest of the country is not so good. Pubs seem to be closing all the time and some towns and villages now have no pubs at all. So please try to use your local pub whenever you can before they are all gone for ever.

we are going to london next week! we are looking to pop into pubs for meals but mainly eat in the bar area (if there is one) no waitstaff or anything. is it recommended to book ahead if we are looking to just have bar service?

Sunday lunchtime pint, best of the week. Better if there’s a band on so we can all have a tipsy sing-song with people we don’t really know.

Need to visit Londons oldest pubs for the history.

It's a tough job, but someone has to do it. 😊😊😊😊🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

Great video. Really enjoyed it. What wasn't mentioned was the cost of drinking in London. I reckon those drinks in those pubs would have totalled close to $40. Not every pub is super expensive in London, but a lot of them are.

Hi. I’ll visit London in June. Any recommendations for Restaurants near St. Pancras ? No fish and chips please 😂

Hi, can you please provide a pub recommendation for watching worldcup games for people that are traveling London during those dates?

Quite an afternoon!

the prospect of Whitby great place

Speaking of selections, I can definitely go for a Guinness right about now.

IN Summer 2023, I have seen an "add tip" option in various central London pubs while paying by card.

This was an excellent video, If the majority of It was filmed in a day then Its also a proper British "Pub crawl" Now you will have to make another video explaining what that is...