If there's a chill in the air, there's only one place to go: London's pubs were made for cold nights and warming pints. What makes a pub cosy? Roughed-up sofas, comfy chairs and a burning open fire help, and these pubs have offered a welcoming home-away-from-home to generations of punters. Whether you want to get warmed-up after a brisk walk through Hampstead Heath or you feel like getting all aglow while in Soho, these are pubs to warm your cockles and lift your spirits. From creakingly old inns with nooks for hiding away from the London fog to modern pubs that know how to turn on the warming charm, find somewhere in the capital to get seriously cosy over autumnal ales and mulled wine.
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Leonie Cooper is Time Out London’s Food and Drink Editor, and likes nothing more than a Guinness by a roaring open fire in a backstreet boozer. For more about how we curate, see our editorial guidelines.