Best pubs around the UK revealed in top awards – is your local on the list?
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THE best pubs around the UK have been revealed - check if your local is on the list.
The National Pub and Bar Awards has shared its shortlist of boozers and restaurants in with the chance of claiming the prestigious title of Pub and Bar of the Year 2025.
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The Black Bear Inn is one of the pubs nominated for Pub and Bar of the Year
The awards, organised by the Pub and Bar magazine, recognise the best venues in the UK based on a range of criteria including service, style of offer, marketing and customer journey.
Almost 100 county winners will be chosen from the shortlist before a grand final in June where regional winners then the grand title of National Pub and Bar of the Year will be announced.
Among the nominees this year is The George in Castleton, a small pub nestled in the heart of the Peak District National Park.
Another is Beekies Neuk in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, a pub and restaurant serving local produce and large selection of whiskies, rums and gins.
Also on the shortlist is the Black Bear Inn in Gwent, Wales, a rurally-situated inn with a rustic feel.
Bogans, in Tyrone, Northern Ireland, is also nominated this year, known for welcoming punters of all ages.
The Red Lion in Kettering features too - a traditional village pub serving locally-sourced food.
Full list of National Pub and Bar Awards 2025 nominees
Wales
Clwyd
Mold Alehouse
The Griffin
The Lighthouse Inn
Dyfed
The Golden Lion
The Stackpole Inn
White Hart Thatched Inn & Brewery
Gwent
The Black Bear Inn
The Clytha Arms
The Duffryn Arms
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Gwynedd
The Bull's Head Inn
The Fairy Falls Hotel
Yr Eagles
Mid Glamorgan
The Golden Mile
The Old House 1147
The Rock Inn
Powys
The Checkers
The Nags Head Inn
The Sun Hotel
South Glamorgan
Blue Anchor Inn
Bonnie Rogues Pub
Hare & Hounds
West Glamorgan
Bonnie Rogues Pub
Britannia Inn
Pontardawe Inn
England
East Midlands
Derbyshire
The George, Castleton
The Pack Horse Hayfield
The Prince of Wales, Baslow
Leicestershire
Cow and Plough
The Forge Inn
The Griffin Inn
Northamptonshire
The Red Lion, Kettering
The Sheaf Inn
The Tollemache Arms
Nottinghamshire
The Four Bells Inn, Nottingham
The Radcliffe
The Tap & Run
Rutland
The Admiral Hornblower
The Fox, Oakham
The Olive Branch Country Inn
East of England
Essex
Railway Arms, Saffron Walden
Thatchers Arms
The Windmill Chatham Green
Bedfordshire
The Boot Inn
The Crown, Henlow
The Oddfellows Arms
Cambridgeshire
The Burleigh Arms
The Grantchester Green Man
The Three Hills Bartlow
Hertfordshire
The Black Horse, Barnet
The Farmer's Boy
The Highwayman
Norfolk
The Angel at Watlington
The Gunton Arms
The Kings Head, Letheringsett
Suffolk
The Anchor at Walberswick
The Lord Nelson
The Newbourne Fox
London
City of London
Goldwood
Lamb Tavern
The Wren Tavern
Greater London
The Baring
The Devonshire
The French House
The Red Lion & Sun
The Walmer Castle
North East
Durham
The Bay Horse
The Kingslodge Inn
The Seaton Lane Inn
Northumberland
The Black Swan Inn, Seahouses
The Crown Inn Humshaugh
The Lindisfarne Inn
Tyne and Wear
Manahatta
The Broad Chare
The Seaburn Inn
North West
Cheshire
Bunbury Arms
Cholmondeley Arms
The Bull's Head, Mobberley
Cumbria
Boaters Bar Bowness
The Black Bull, Sedbergh
The Temperance Inn
Greater Manchester
Electric Shuffle Manchester
Side Street Manchester
The Edinburgh Castle
Lancashire
Offshore
Parkers Arms
The Black Bull, Blackburn
Merseyside
Flight Club Liverpool
Roscoe Head
St Peters Tavern
South East
Berkshire
The Belgian Arms
The Last Crumb
The Rising Sun, Reading
Buckinghamshire
The Jolly Farmer, Gerrards Cross
The Journeyman
The Rising Sun, Aylesbury
East Sussex
The Argyle Arms
The Geese
The Royal Sovereign
Hampshire
The High Corner Inn
The Ship Inn Langstone
The White Buck Inn
Isle of Wight
The Fighting Cocks
The Old Fort, Seaview
The Taverners
Kent
The Flying Horse, Smarden
The Leicester Arms
The Marquis of Granby
Oxfordshire
Double Red Duke
The Black Horse, Thame
The Bull, Charlbury
The Nags Head on The Thames
The Trout Inn
Surrey
Teller's Arms
The Kings Arms, Egham
The Running Horses, Mickleham
West Sussex
Crown and Anchor, Chichester
The Red Deer, Horsham
The White Horse, Chilgrove
South West
Bristol
Mulligans
The All Inn
The Gloucester Old Spot
Cornwall
Heron Inn
The Pickwick Inn & Oliver's Restaurant
The Ship Inn, Porthleven
Devon
The Cove
The Masons Arms
The Thatched Tavern
Dorset
The Dog House
The King's Arms, Shaftesbury
The Libertine
The Pavilion Arms
Gloucestershire
Dr Foster
The Crown at Ampney Brook
The Bell Inn Langford
The Lion Inn, Winchcombe
Somerset
Ludo Sports Bar & Kitchen
The Swan Inn, Rowberrow
The Talbot Inn
Wiltshire
The Beckford Arms
The King John Inn
The Royal Oak, Easterton
West Midlands
Herefordshire
Prince of Wales, Ledbury
The Oak Inn Staplow
The Riverside at Aymestrey
Shropshire
The Acton At Morville
The Huntsman of Little Wenlock
The Tally Ho Inn
Staffordshire
Fitzherbert Arms
The Duncombe Arms
The Tamworth Tap
Warwickshire
The Aviary Bar
The Drawing Board
The Red Lion, Long Compton
West Midlands
Albert's Schloss
The Queens, Walsall
The Tamworth Arms
Worcestershire
The Pillar Of Salt Droitwich
The Wildmoor Oak
Ye Olde Black Cross
Yorkshire and the Humber
East Riding of Yorkshire
Firepit, Beverley
The Goodmanham Arms
The Old Star
Lincolnshire
The Red Lion Hotel, Spalding
The Royal Oak Inn, Louth
The Strait and Narrow
North Yorkshire
The Black Swan, Helmsley
The Black Swan, Ripon
The Plough, Wombleton
South Yorkshire
Biscuit Billy's
Public
The Woodman
West Yorkshire
Pinnacle Sports & Games
SALT Beer Factory
The Shibden Mill Inn
Scotland
Northern Scotland
Aberdeenshire
Beekies Neuk
The Boat Inn, Aboyne
Angus
The Birkhill Inn
The Picture House
Argyll and Bute
Macgochans
Tigh An Truish
City of Aberdeen
The Spiritualist
The Tippling House
City of Dundee
Bertie Mooney's
The Barrelman
Clackmannanshire
The Bobbing John
The Mansfield Arms
Fife
Dreel Tavern
Montagues
Highland
Sligachan Hotel
The Ben Nevis Bar
Moray
The Mash Tun
The Old Mill Inn
Na h-Eileanan Siar (Western Isles)
The Cross Inn
The Crown, Stornoway
Orkney Islands
Ayre Hotel
St Ola Hotel
Perth and Kinross
The Inn at Loch Tummel
The Old Ship Inn
Shetland Islands
Douglas Arms
The Dowry
Stirling
The Cross Keys
The Rising Sun
Southern Scotland
City of Edinburgh
Cloisters
Tipsy Midgie Whisky Bar
City of Glasgow
Piper Whisky Bar
The French Horn
Dumfries and Galloway
Kenmuir Arms
The Steamboat Inn
East Ayrshire
Hollybush Inn, Hollybush
The Weston
East Dunbartonshire
The Stables
The Station
East Lothian
Broc Bar at The Bonnie Badger
Station Yard
East Renfrewshire
The Cartvale
The White Cart
Falkirk
New Market Bar
The Wheatsheaf
Inverclyde
One Bruce Street Bar & Kitchen
Scotts
Midlothian
Laird and Dog Inn
Stewart Brewing Brewery Bar & Pizza Kitchen
North Ayrshire
The Northern Way
The Red Squirrel
North Lanarkshire
The Electric Bar
The Railway Tavern
Renfrewshire
The Boarding House
The Coach House
Scottish Borders
The Horseshoe Inn
Wheatsheaf Hotel
South Ayrshire
The Kirkmichael Arms
The Smoking Goat
South Lanarkshire
The Applebank Inn
The Rowantree Inn
West Dunbartonshire
Counting House
The Glen Lusset
West Lothian
Livingston Inn
The Four Mary's
Northern Ireland
Antrim
Duke of York, Belfast
Rococo Wine Bar Antrim
Sunflower Public House
Armagh
Courthouse Bar
Keegan's
The Hole in the Wall
Down
Dundrum Inn
The Dirty Duck Alehouse
The Maghera Inn
Fermanagh
Blakes of the Hollow
Charlie's Bar
The Taphouse
Derry/Londonderry
Blackbird
Guildhall Taphouse
Pedar O'Donnell's
Tyrone
Bogans
The Brewer's House and The Lower House Bar & Rooms
Tomneys
OTHER PUBS NEWS
Wetherspons is set to open 15 new pubs after toasting a surge in sales.
The Sun exclusively revealed six locations set to pull up their shutters, and their opening dates.
Boozers are opening on the Isle of Man, London, Warwickshire and Essex before the end of September.
A further nine will open by July 2026.
But it's not all good news for the pub chain, after boss Tim Martin warned it would have to hike the price of pints by 20p.
It comes after the chain told The Sun in January it had raised the price of some of its drinks and meal deals by up to 30p.
Meanwhile, we revealed the 30 best pub beer gardens ideal for sipping on a cold pint.
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