St Stephen's Tavern

Named after St Stephen's Chapel, the original meeting place of the House of Commons. There's been a pub here since at least the eighteenth century, but the current building dates from 1875 — French Renaissance architecture, Grade II listed, with ornate ceilings you can inspect from a Victorian-era mezzanine. Baldwin, Churchill, and Macmillan all drank here. The pub closed in the 1980s during Jubilee Line construction and Portcullis House building work, then reopened in 2003 after a full restoration by Hall & Woodhouse. The division bell was restored at the same time. Big Ben is directly across the road.