Trends · data through September 2026

Bars, Pubs & Breweries in the United Kingdom

Iceflower tracks 28,841 stores from 16,710 bars, pubs & breweries in the United Kingdom. Kings Head grew fastest over the last year, ahead of The Butchers Arms and The White House.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked chains
16,710
Tracked stores
28,841
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked bars, pubs & breweries

Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. Kings Head and The Butchers Arms sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 K Kings Head ▲13 +18.5%
2 T The Butchers Arms ▲29 +18.5%
3 T The White House ▲25 +17.8%
4 T The Boundary ▲14 +17.7%
5 H Hare & Hounds ▲26 +17.6%
6 T The Dolphin ▲13 +16.8%
7 T The Black Swan ▲27 +16.4%
8 C Clays logo Clays ▲22 +16.0%
9 S Soho ▲16 +15.7%
10 T The Masons Arms ▲23 +15.5%
11 P Prince of Wales ▲8 +14.9%
12 P Paradise Park ▲23 +14.9%
13 T The Fox ▲12 +13.5%
14 T The Woodman ▲21 +13.4%
15 T The Old Bank ▲17 +12.4%
  • Epworth House
  • Sovereigns
  • The Red Lion
  • Slug and Lettuce
  • The Ivy
  • O'Neill's
  • The Royal Oak
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

25,000 of 28,841 tracked store locations in the United Kingdom. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Epworth House (1)
  • Sovereigns (1)
  • The Red Lion (245)
  • Slug and Lettuce (77)
  • The Ivy (27)
  • O'Neill's (50)
  • The Royal Oak (214)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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