The Argyll Arms is a historic pub just off Oxford Circus, at the corner of Argyll Street and Great Marlborough Street in central London. For fans of *The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy*, it’s more than a pub — it’s a meeting point in the real-world orbit of Douglas Adams and the BBC team who brought the Guide to life.
SEARCH 51.5150400, -0.1414900 The Argyll Arms, 18 Argyl Street, W1F 7TP, Soho, City of Westminster, Greater London, England, United Kingdom
During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Adams and his colleagues from BBC Maida Vale Studios and Broadcasting House often gathered here after recording sessions. The Argyll Arms, with its maze of mirrored booths and Victorian décor, provided the perfect setting for exhausted comedy writers and sound engineers to debate whether doors should sigh, or if the universe really needed another improbability field. The pub’s intricate interior — all brass fittings, mahogany, and stained glass — feels oddly in tune with Adams’ sense of structured chaos: a place both ordinary and ornate, where you could easily imagine Ford Prefect explaining the importance of always knowing where your towel is. For many fans, it’s a quiet pilgrimage stop — a reminder that behind all the galactic absurdity, *Hitchhiker’s* was also fueled by conversation, laughter, and a pint or two in London’s hidden corners.
# See
- the-berkeley.co.uk 
- The Berkeley on Wikipedia