Temple Brew House (CLOSED)

Temple isn’t the kind of area you’d expect to find a basement beer ’n’ ribs joint: this is wine bar territory if there ever was one. But in among the law courts, olde-worlde Pepysian pubs and fancy new plonk purveyors, a set of stairs leads down to craft beer nirvana. At Temple Brew House you can find a wicked selection of keg and bottled beers from all over the shop – even sold in 2/3rds of a pint, which is novel for this part of town – as well as a good selection of own-brewed beers on cask. If you can ignore the endless throng of types who line the bar (par for the course round here), it’s a pretty great place for a central London tipple.