Only 5 of 96 London Venues Are Still Serving After 1am

Eight of the 87 trading London venues in this index are still serving after one in the morning. Five of them get past three.

London has a reputation as a late city and its own published hours do not support it. Twenty four of the 87 stop before eleven, and 38 reach midnight or later. Put the other way round: fewer than half the venues in a guide to London eating and drinking are still serving at midnight.

And there is a second problem underneath the first, which is that a closing time is usually two different numbers. The room shuts at one hour and the kitchen stops at an earlier one, and the gap is routinely two hours. Sixteen of the 87 publish the kitchen separately from the room. The rest publish one time and leave you to guess which it is.

What time pubs and bars close in London

Counted across the 87 venues in this index that are still trading. Ten further rows are marked Closed and kept for the record, and are left out of these figures because a closed venue has no closing time. Anyone is welcome to cite them.

Five of the six that go past two in the morning are not restaurants. They are Annabel’s, a private members’ club, Ministry of Sound, which runs to five on a Friday and Saturday, Callooh Callay and The Little Scarlet Door, both bars, and Lucky Voice, which is karaoke. The one exception is Maroush on Beauchamp Place, which serves until three in the morning and until half past four from Thursday to Saturday. If you want dinner after 1am in London, that is the entry to read.

The biggest single group closes around eleven, which is the honest shape of a London evening: a table at eight, last orders somewhere around ten, and out by eleven.

Read the kitchen line wherever it exists. Where a venue publishes both, the gap between the room closing and the kitchen closing runs to two hours, and it is the single most common way a late booking turns into a drink and no dinner.

The index

Filter by when they stop. Every line is what the venue publishes on its own site.

How this was compiled

Each entry is read off the venue’s own published hours, and each links to the page on this site where it is covered in full.

Only times stated in a closing context were counted. A line reading “pianist from 5.30pm” says nothing about when a place shuts, so it is not treated as a closing time. Seventy eight venues in our coverage publish hours that never name a closing time at all, and they are excluded rather than guessed at. That is why this index is 97 rows and not larger.

The bands are deliberately approximate. A venue whose latest published closing is 11.30pm sits in “around 11pm”. Turning prose opening hours into exact minutes would invent a precision the sources do not have, and a wrong closing time is worse than a rough one.

What the set is: the bars, pubs, restaurants and clubs this guide covers that publish a closing time, checked through September 2026 and every row compared against its source venue page on 2 October 2026. It is a picture of London’s notable places rather than of every venue in the city, and it skews towards rooms worth writing about.

Hours change seasonally and without notice. Confirm before a late journey, and assume the kitchen closes before the room.

Where to go next

Late night restaurants is the curated version of this question, and the walk in index covers the other half of getting fed: not what is still open, but what will seat you without a booking.

London at night covers the evening as a whole, and the best bars hold most of the genuinely late rooms.