Pegasus Tap Room
Gin bar and craft beer tap room
Canterbury's gin palace and craft beer tap room on St Dunstan's Street, with more than 100 gins, cocktails and vintage cinema seats.
📍 86 St. Dunstans St, Canterbury CT2 8AD
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The Penny Theatre
Late-night pub and cocktail bar
A Canterbury institution on Northgate for decades, open from lunch into the early hours.
📍 30-31 Northgate, Canterbury CT1 1BL
The Parrot
Historic pub
The oldest pub in Canterbury, from the 14th century and said to stand on Roman foundations, with beamed ceilings, stone-flagged floors, three open fires and a garden.
📍 1 to 9 Church Lane, St Radigunds, Canterbury CT1 2AG
The Thomas Tallis Alehouse
Ale house
A couple of steps down into cosy old rooms on Northgate, a destination for craft beer and cask ale.
📍 48 Northgate, Canterbury CT1 1BE
The Thomas Becket
Traditional pub
A cosy pub with a warm welcome off the cobbled side streets near the King's Mile.
📍 21 Best Lane, Canterbury CT1 2JB
The Foundry Brew Pub
Brewpub
Home of Canterbury Brewers and Distillers: a huge multi-room brewpub in a Victorian metal foundry, with its own beers, spirits and pub food.
📍 77 Stour Street, Canterbury CT1 2NR
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Start with Pegasus Tap Room, The Penny Theatre, The Parrot, The Thomas Tallis Alehouse and The Thomas Becket. Our full list has 6 bars.
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Who wrote this guide
This guide is written by the team at M.AD Agency. We run Cocktail Week, the ten-day cocktail festival held town by town across the UK and Ireland. Since 2022 we have taken it to more than 20 towns and cities and worked with hundreds of bars. We love Canterbury's bars, so we put this guide together from our own research and trusted local guides.
No bar paid to be included and nobody can buy a place. We check the guide regularly as bars open, change and close.
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