The Harp in City of London, Westminster

Great beer mat selection at the bar.

Although it was very busy,great service from bar staff.

Busy pub good beer convention located.

Great little pub, good beers and atmosphere.

Loved it, good proper cider, great atmosphere on a Saturday night, great bar staff. Thank you for making my night.

Possibly my favourite pub in London. Amazing selection of real beer, and cider. And don't miss the "back-door" entrance, so you can miss the crowds at the front !

Very disappointing. Used to be a great pub - not anymore. The staff, all young were not well trained and totally unprofessional. 1 female member of staff was wearing running/exercise clothes, the others looked scruffy. No engagement with the public, as more interested in talking to their friends or checking their phones. When we asked for beer recommendations we were just offered random tastes - not a clue about their products. The staff began cleaning up way before closing time so the pub had a smell of disinfectant - not pleasant! When asking people to finish up drinks the staff were incredibly rude, especially the one in the exercise clothes. This they were happy to continue serving their friends who were at the bar. This used to be a great bar, well run and professional and a pleasure to visit, no more. Will not return and wouldn't recommend.

One of my favourite London pubs. The service is always great. A lovely spot for a pint of Guinness in the autumn/winter.

It has a very nice atmosphere and you can enjoy delicious drinks. The less sweet cider is excellent.

Great pub serving very good cask ale, friendly staff.

There is an atmosphere of times gone by. The beers I tasted were good.

Friendly staff and great cask ale. Super atmosphere.

Call me sentimental, but it used to have a different vibe a few years back. Now… was there some ownership/management change? Sadly, but won’t bother go there on the next London visits.

The last authentic pub left in the West End, should be grade 1 listed.

Great traditional pub full of character

Added service charge at the bar. When questioned the barman shrugged his shoulders and said 'well, you could have cancelled it'. The only reason I knew it had been added was that I saw the till behind him. Not a great look ripping off the customer. However the GM dealt with it promptly so hopefully other guests won't have the same thing happen to them.

This used to be one of the best pubs in London. Visited yesterday and it's gone to the dogs. How a pub can run out of Guinness on a Wednesday I honestly do not know. Staff uninterested and happy to send you next door to the Marquis. I won't be visiting again.

The barman added a service charge whilst I was ordering at the bar. When questioned the barman shrugged his shoulders and said 'well, you could have cancelled it'. The only reason I knew it had been added was that I saw the till behind him. Absolutely disgusting.

If coming from the direction of Trafalgar Square, The Harp is located just behind the pavilion entrance to the crypt of St. Martin-in-the-Fields. (Google Maps presents a much more circuitous route.) It describes itself as a “blissfully traditional place”—which prompts this brief review. Perhaps it was the contrast of just having attended a candlelight concert at St. Martin, but there is no more chaotic place to drink in London. It’s all wonderfully congenial, if slightly boozy—and the scrum at the bar is breathtaking, punters spilling out onto the street and across to the other side. Given the shambles, the pint of Guinness seemed quite ordinary.

Real old school English pub! Some good craft beers. Nice atmosphere

Good beer pub. Not a meal place, but great to catch up with friends for a drink

Very fun place, very good service and there are Brazilians working

Could be a great venue but disinterested staff and horrifically inebriated customers at 3pm spoilt the experience

Popped in for a drink as it's listed in the liquid history of London. Typical old London pub with a good selection of beers, a little bit of calm close to Covent Garden Market.

This is a great old bar, in the heart of London, nice selection of beers and such a great atmosphere. Enjoyed the visit, nice!

Dark and dirty environment, beer sticking to the floor and cigarette smoke inside the bar.

The freshest pint of cask I had whilst in London. Great independent pub which are not easy to find in London. The Hophead was superb and when I went next door to the Marquis (another good independent pub) the same pint was nowhere near as well kept. Always worth a visit this pub when in London, unless you drink Madri/Carling etc. Extra seating upstairs or can stand outside front and back.

A must visit when going to the nearby national gallery/ portrait gallery. Nice staff and good Guinness

Great boozer with a great range of ales. Often very busy

Only had drinks, lovely real pub

Nice well priced bar, good selection of ales.

Cool cafe with lots of choice for beers.

Was my top choice pub to go to if I found myself in this area. In relation to its situation it used to be good value. It's surpassed that threshold now. The beers still good , it's a lovely pub, sadly now not good value.

This is somewhere between a 4 and a 5-star pub. The bottom floor is charming and close and it's nice to be outside there. More character than most spots nearby. However, the upstairs room isn't so nice, a little warm, a little standard and characterless.

Just an excellent pub that looks after its cask ales, with two great staples (Hophead and Harveys) and wonderful and extensive guest beers. And the best thing? Seeing their bar staff washing their hands extremely throughly after going to the loo.

Don’t want to hear excuses about central London prices. I live in London. This is the most expensive pub for ale I’ve come across. £7 for an Ale. Awful. Disgusting even. I go to pubs in the area but not this one in a while. Was shocked. Nice pint but that’s not the point!!! You can still get an ale under 6 and even under a fiver. Shop around. Also this place is so small everyone ends up battered at the bar or in the street standing

Smashing pub with a great selection. Popped in before heading to the theatre

Best bar staff in London! Always get served in turn, and I’m a stickler.

Great beer choice, lovely place, reasonable price for the location

Best pub in London if you ask me. If you are a Harry Potter fan, it is this pub and the alleyway at the back, that gave JK Rowling the idea for the Leaky Cauldron. Apparently she used to drink in here before she was famous It's kind of obvious when you look at it all

Good, traditional pub. Pours a nice pint.

This is a very popular pub with real ale drinkers, evidenced by the 10 cask beers and the hundreds of beer mats above the bar. It is a narrow pub with additional seating upstairs. Being near to both Covent Garden and Soho it is ideally located. I was here at 4pm on a Monday afternoon and it was quite busy. There is a designated standing area out back but many drinkers preferred to drink in the street out front. The toilets are upstairs and accessed by a steep, narrow staircase that could prove problematic for the less mobile.

Superb bar, typical, the people working there and those, like us, who come to drink a cold beer are sunny. ++ The choice of beers, to discover what is done in England ++ The neighborhood is dynamic and even more so in the evening after the end of the day

Small but charming place with a wide variety of beers.

Excellent beer selection. Cozy pub with an upstairs. An easy addition to any beer crawl 😎

Friendly stuff. Nice range of beer on tap

This is a fairly famous English pub in London. Well known but still a little off the beaten path. Nice classic feel with an old age style but new beers. A lot of casks for ales. A small area in the main bar with more space on the second story. Nice place to have a pint of ale.

This is a fairly famous English pub in London. Well known but still a little of the beaten path. Nice classic feel with an old age style but new beers. A lot of casks for ales. A small area in the main bar with more space on the second story. Nice place to have a pint of ale.

Still one of the best real ale pubs in town

Great pub in the heart of london, fantastic real ale selection from across a number of small breweries.

Lovely place. VERY small and hot though.

A wonderful social pub that is always friendly and welcoming. I come her each time I am in London. The staff are amazing and nothing is too much

We entered "The Harp" pub but were not even greeted. The venue was so small that we couldn't find a place to sit. Furthermore, there was a strong smell of urine mixed with that of beer, which made the environment uninviting. Due to these conditions, we had to leave without even being able to enjoy a drink.

Great pub a little away from the main tourist crowds

Small, quaint, cozy pub. We went in for two quick beers and the service was nice and quick.

Nice cosy pub near Trafalgar Square. Great meeting place on a Saturday afternoon

Great downtown bar with nice craft beer / cask offering

It has diagonally at the back, what more do you want ? Busy and friendly. Locals and visitors together. Top spot.

Great pub, great beers (especially the Dark Star) and great atmosphere

Always my favourite pub in London! Best pint of Darkstar APA going!

Like any other bar in London , Greg place to drink but not so much to eat out. Go expecting what you think it will be. Nothing more or less:

Great beer staff could enjoy themselves more :)

A feeling of traditional pub history. Very tempting range of ales on tap. Shame I couldn't try all of them. The pub is compact at floor level with some more seats upstairs.

Decent boozer near Trafalgar Square. Good selection of beers, ales and stouts. Quickly served

Good old traditional pub. No thrills, just beer, as it should be.

Very nice pub ! Relax atmosphere and friendly staff :)

Apparently having more than 4 drinks is a problem, however non of the white people around us we're challenged.

Great ale and staff are very helpful and friendly

Small wonder why it's won London POTY

Slow and grumpy service. Beer was mediocre. Used to like this pub but it has now gone downhill badly. Aways busy so I guess they take customers for granted, I wont be back.

Immaculately kept beer and quick service, even at busy times. Prices are pretty good for London, too. A wonderful pub; the only drawback is that they don’t serve food, but there are plenty of good dining options nearby.

Lovely, cosy pub with a nice atmosphere and friendly staff

Lovely pub in the theater district

Very nice pub, recommended by British people coming out of the place and telling us to drink the best beers there. Very British atmosphere.

Quaint and well-attended pub. Serve good beer and other drinks.

Epic pub with awesome selection of ales and amazing staff

The Harp was once excellent. Then the customer service went seriously downhill. I didn't think it could get any worse but someone has made a real effort to appear disinterested and make customers feel taken for granted. The beer selection is good but it does not make up for the indifferent service.

I recently visited this pub and had an amazing time. The atmosphere was cozy and inviting, the staff was friendly and attentive, and the food and drinks were delicious. I highly recommend this pub to anyone looking for a great place to relax and unwind.

Always excellent. Tiny, unfortunately.

Fun pub, good beer, and great atmosphere. Always busy, so be prepared to squeeze into a corner somewhere.

Small busy pub with good service and atmosphere.

Beer is really well kept. I have vivid dreams about the Harvey's Best. Best boozer in centre of town.

Fabulous pub with a marvellous range of well kept cask beer. Had the Marble Stout myself. Busy every time I've been in here regardless of the time of day. A central London institution. No children allowed. Additional seating upstairs if it is rammed downstairs.

No food eaten, a meeting place for a number of friends. Always a great choice of beers. I have been there many times over the past 30 years.

Still enjoy a visit. Well kept beer. But has lost a bit of its charm in recent years. Still, one of the best pubs in the area

Great pub atmosphere with a good selection of beer styles and on cask

Best pint of Hophead in London.

A revisit, yet again a great selection of beers.

Friendly pub, wide range of beers.

Lovely pint of Guinness in a small but well formed boozer. Great bar staff, really pleasurable place to meet old friends for the first time in 22 years. Thank you The Harp

One of the best pubs in London for cask ale

There are many types of beer and the atmosphere is great. There are many people in the afternoon, so you can have a drink when you are tired from shopping!

guys, the security man made a great job tonight!! noticing a feather boa on a lamp that cold become a serious threat....! Great pub for ales and for people. 😊

We went here on Sunday afternoon with family for a quite drink and we found a table downstairs for the six of us. All was well until a group of about 10 men arrived and proceeded to sing and behave badly. The landlord did nothing about this and this compelled us to leave as the noise was unbearable.

Amazing pub, 10 hand pumps, all different breweries and beers, all in good condition. Quite reasonably priced for central London

Consistently one of the best pubs in London... period

Very tradional pub experience I'd say. You got people around just enjoying a good pint of ale while chilling with their mates. I can just stand there enjoy a fresh pint.

When I lived in London I used to love going to The Harp for an afternoon pint when the pub is quiet. In town for a few days i agreed to meet a pal and fellow Harp customer of longstanding there this week. I arrived while the bar manager was having a loud rant about his job to a customer. He studiously avoided serving me, the only customer at the bar, for five minutes. When he did deign to serve me, he was sullen and unfriendly. He then spent much of his time staring at his phone and I observed when another customer tried to engage him in conversation he didn't want to know, and was more interested in his phone. Buying a subsequent round, I again had to wait for service as he stared at his phone. And again, he was sullen and unfriendly when he did serve me and when I paid for my drinks. I know we all have our off days but this was at a very basic level, unprofessional. As always the beer at The Harp is decent and in years past the bar staff were knowledgeable, friendly and approachable. Good customer service as we all know is so important, especially at a time when the hospitality trade has taken such a huge hit post covid and during a cost of living crisis. Clearly from what I hear, my experience this week wasn't a one off in terms of customer service. Sadly I wont be rushing back to The Harp the next time I'm back in London. It's still one of the best central London pubs to pop into for a pint...but my..the owners need to sort out the staffing/service. I strongly suggest the current bar manager finds alternative employment that doesnt involve interacting with the public. Treating paying customers with borderline contempt and on sufferance is not a good look.

I would give zero if I could. Was once a fabulous place to visit but today was met with rudeness by the staff. Walked out without drinking.

Great atmosphere and superb ale, no more need be said!