Camden Bars is the locally-edited channel 247 venues already trust to put their pint, cocktail and late-night menu in front of the people who actually live above the lock. No paywall. No paid placement. Just an editor and a notebook.
Four concrete things, delivered by six neighbours who edit the guide from a 15-minute walk of Camden Town tube. No agency fee. No sponsored slot. No upsell.
Every one of the 247 venues on Camden Bars is independently written and re-visited at least once every 90 days by our 6-person Camden-based editorial team. Your listing reads like a piece of journalism, not a paid advert.
Since launching in 2022, partner-listed venue hires are up 41% year-on-year. Reader enquiries route through our editorial inbox and land in yours as warm leads.
The fastest of any UK nightlife publisher. Pitch a correction, push a last-minute event, or argue your way into a higher ranking — a Camden editor answers inside a day and a half.
The "What to Drink in Camden" newsletter opens at 47% — 3.1x the hospitality-media industry average — and 18,400+ anonymised check-ins per week power the live busyness indicator your regulars already trust.
No contracts. No sales call. A Camden editor reads every submission and replies inside 36 hours — promise.
Tell us the bar's name, the postcode, the best night to visit and one sentence on what makes it different. Five minutes, tops.
A Camden editor replies with a short list of follow-up questions and a date for the re-visit. No blackhole, no auto-responder.
One of the six editors — all living within a 15-minute walk of Camden Town tube — comes in, orders at the bar and writes 200 honest words.
Your listing appears in the searchable directory, gets a slot in the next weekly email, and starts receiving warm reader enquiries through the concierge.
Camden Bars was founded in 2017 by two former landlords of The Hawley Arms, fed up with sites that rank venues by who paid the biggest invoice. So we built the opposite: a directory of 247 drinkable spots, written and re-written every quarter by editors who live above the lock, advised by a board of nine Camden publicans who can pull a listing the moment a venue stops being good enough.
A listing with us is curation, not a paid ad. We won't sell you a "premium" tier. We won't move you up the rankings because you took us for lunch. We will, however, come back inside 90 days, order at the bar like anyone else, and tell 90,000 readers what we found. That's the deal.
— The editorial team, Hartland Road Studios, NW1
Pick whichever channel suits a Tuesday afternoon behind the bar — the form, the inbox, or the phone line. A Camden editor picks it up.
