Despite my ever-growing obsession with cocktails there are times when I just feel like going to a pub, playing a game of pool and sinking a few beers – which explains why the Amazonian Croatian …

If you’re after a dive bar par excellence, a place that’s dark and comfortable and where you can sit at an old wooden bar counter and slam back pickle juice paired with whiskey, then look …

Looking like a tavern from The Pirates of Penzance – at least from the outside – Balmain’s Riverview Hotel was built in 1880 and feels like a nautical hangout thanks to the building’s various angles, …

My love affair with The Clare is unrequited: no matter how many times I have a bevvy there the staff usually just look at me with disdain or, at best, a mild tolerance (I have, …