our top ten pubs for stuff
To help you, if you're looking for a pub with a particular strength - it might be a pub that does a fine Sunday roast, or a pub with waterside views, we've compiled a number of lists of pubs that we think are especially good at different things.
The lists appear below and you should note that the pubs don't appear in particular order within them. We've tried to keep the lists short - roughly ten pubs per subject - but if you can think of others that are missing from any list, please let us know.
best pubs for good beer...
Jerusalem Tavern 
(Farringdon, London)
Bridge House 
(Bermondsey, London)
The Market Porter (Borough, London)
Harp 
(Leicester Square, London)
Salisbury (Leicester Square, London)
Wenlock Arms (City Road, London)
The Castle (Fleet Street, London)
Carpenters Arms (Marble Arch, London)
The Royal Oak (Borough, London) 
The Dovetail Bar (Clerkenwell, London)
Priory Arms (Stockwell, London)
Three Compasses (Hornsey, London)
Bricklayers Arms (Putney, London)
The Rake (London Bridge, London)
Lower Red Lion (St Albans, Hertfordshire)
White Lion (St Albans, Hertfordshire)
Prague (Shoreditch, London)
Aikmans (St. Andrews, Fife)
Rising Sun (Sheffield, South Yorkshire)
best pubs for watching TV (especially sport)...
Pakenham Arms (Clerkenwell, London)
ONeills (Shepherd's Bush, London)
The Alexandra (Clapham Common, London)
The Gun (Spitalfields, London)
Carpenters Arms (Marble Arch, London)
Rob Roy 
(Lancaster Gate, London)
F3K (Famous 3 Kings) (Earl's Court, London)
The Elgin (Holland Park, London)
The Beaten Docket 
(Cricklewood, London)
best pubs for good food...
Newman Arms (Fitzrovia, London)
Conduit of Tybourne (ex-OConor Don) (Marylebone, London)
The Narrow (Limehouse, London)
The Grapes (Limehouse, London)
Cock Tavern (Smithfield, London)
The Camel (Bethnal Green, London)
The Charles Cotton (, )
best pubs for quiz night...
Sutton Arms (Barbican, London)
Royal Inn on the Park (Bow, London)
Oxford Arms 
(Camden, London)
Lord Nelson (Docklands, London)
Five Bells (East Finchley, London)
Wenlock Arms (City Road, London)
The Nobody Inn (Dalston, London)
The George (Balham, London)
The Victoria (Lancaster Gate, London)
The Cleveland Arms (Lancaster Gate, London)
The Masons Arms (Bury St Edmunds, )
Prince Albert (Southwark, London)
best pubs for a roast Sunday dinner...
Princess of Wales (Blackheath, London)
Scolt Head (Dalston, London)
The Royal Oak (Borough, London)
Princess of Wales (Primrose Hill, London)
Queens Head (Winchmore Hill, London)
Monkey Chews (Primrose Hill, London)
Nightingale (Wanstead, London)
Lord Nelson (Barnet, London)
pubs with the best outdoor space...
Windsor Castle (Notting Hill, London)
Pub on the Park (Hackney, London)
The Spaniards Inn (Golders Green, London)
The Vanbrugh (Greenwich, London)
The Duke of Edinburgh (Brixton, London)
Edinboro Castle (Camden, London)
Crown and Horseshoes (Enfield, London)
Spurstowe Arms (Hackney, London)
Coat and Badge (Putney, London)
pubs with the best live music...
Golden Eagle (Marylebone, London)
Filthy McNastys Whiskey Cafe (Angel, London)
Hope and Anchor (Highbury, London)
Water Rats (King's Cross, London)
Wenlock Arms (City Road, London)
Aint Nothin But...The Blues Bar (Soho, London)
The Wonder (Enfield, London)
The Old Blue Last (Shoreditch, London)
New Inn (St John's Wood, London)
best pubs for playing pool...
Kings Arms (Holborn, London)
Hope and Anchor (Highbury, London)
The Horseshoe (Clerkenwell, London)
The Banker (Cannon Street, London)
King Harold (Leyton, London)
Good Mixer (Camden, London)
The Water Poet (Spitalfields, London)
The Landor (Stockwell, London)
F3K (Famous 3 Kings) (Earl's Court, London)
Faltering Fullback (Palmers Green, London)
Westbury (ex-Red Lion) (Maida Vale, London)
pubs with the best waterside location...
The Mayflower (Rotherhithe, London)
Prospect of Whitby (Wapping, London)
Founders Arms (Blackfriars, London)
Dove (Hammersmith, London)
The Narrow (Limehouse, London)
Captain Kidd (Wapping, London)
Old Thameside Inn (London Bridge, London)
The Narrowboat (City Road, London)
White Cross (Richmond, London)
Anchor and Hope (Clapton, London)
The Commissary (City Road, London)
The Lobster Smack (Canvey Island, Essex)