Blue Posts, London

Built in 1900 and Grade II listed. Following a period of closure, the pub was reopened in December 2017 by Layo and Zoë Paskin, founders of the Covent Garden restaurants Palomar and Barbary, on a 15-year lease. The ground floor still houses the main pub area and has three real ale pumps often offering unusual brands, but the beer cellar has been lowered in the renovation to house Evelyn’s Table, a micro-restaurant with an 11-seat marble countertop, with two side tables bringing the seat count up to 15. Unusually for somewhere this small there is not a set meal, but around 10 dishes per day on a regularly changing modern European menu. Half the seats are available for walk-ins. There is also a barfood menu available from 5pm.

The first floor now has the Mulwray wine bar featuring Connemara marble, brass detailing and a wood-burning stove. There are deep upholstered seats and some vintage porn framed on the walls in a nod to Soho's past seedy reputation. The wine bar entrance is in the side alley. The site is on the edge of London's Chinatown, and film buffs will be aware that Evelyn Mulwray was the femme fatale (played by Faye Dunaway) in the famous 1974 film Chinatown.

Beer prices reflect the central location. Note the restricted opening hours.