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Time Out
2 days ago
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- Time Out
Angel Highgate
Rare is the pub that opens at 8am and isn't around the corner from an early morning meat market (or a Wetherspoons). The Angel – which is from the same team as Highgate's primo gastropub the Red Lion & Sun – is bucking the trend with a classy breakfast bistro offering, before easing punters into lunchtime wine and evening feasts (though not on Sun-Tue, when it shuts up shop at 6pm - they're not maniacs). Booze begins at 10am, if you're wondering, with a kimchi bloody mary one of the more acceptable pre-lunch libations on offer. Formerly the unremarkable Angel Inn, the Angel relaunched in 2025 on a prominent corner of the quaint Highgate High Street, well aware that it needed to offer something different in an area already packed with exceptional pubs. Despite being super close to the aforementioned Red Lion & Sun, ever-popular Flask, cosy Prince of Wales and Americana-themed Dukes of Highgate, the Angel stands out. Airy and bright, the space feels more like a Parisian brasserie than a north London boozer, with classy touches such as elegant fairground-styled painted logos for your pints rather than ugly branded pump clips. Kippers, full english brekkies and a selection of pastries are available until 5pm, after which the evening menu kicks in, with the likes of bavette steak and chips, confit duck leg, and Wagyu double cheeseburger up for grabs. But this isn't one of the gastropubs where you'll be sneered at for only ordering booze - from what we can see on our visit, drinkers are just as welcome as eaters.
Time Out
25-06-2025
- Business
- Time Out
The ‘best' pub in London has been crowned for 2025
A bunch of London names have scored big at the Pub and Bar Awards 2025. The winners? The Red Lion & Sun in Highgate was named London Pub & Bar of the Year, while Soho's The Devonshire scored the Industry's Choice Award, which was voted for by 100s of pub and bar industry folk. Congrats to both of them, despite the fact that we'd say they're actually gastropubs – complete with sitdown restaurants – rather than proper boozers. If you prefer crisps, pints and a sticky carpet, take a look at our best 50 pubs in London list, with not a gastropub in sight. And if you do like a gastropub, then have a look at Time Out's top 20 gastropubs list. Another London win came for Mr Fogg's, which weas named Bar Group of the Year for its trademark Disney-ification of the Victorian gin palace. Mr Fogg's has venues in Mayfair, Covent Garden, Fitzrovia, Soho and the City. The overall winner was the Bull in Charlbury, which was named the UK's best pub. Which, granted, is very nice, but is another gastropub. Justice for the real pubs, say us! Since 2023, the Bull has been run by the Public House Group, which is behind The Hero in Maida Vale and The Pelican in Notting Hill. Almost 100 county winners were announced at the awards, which took place at Big Penny Social in Walthamstow, as well as 13 regional winners.
