The Green Man (Stamford)
Before I go on to talk about something completely different, which I assure you I do, let me first review this pub. This is a really good pub – loads […]
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The Old Eagle NW1 9LU (Tube: Camden Rd)
There is no pretence with this pub. It is the pub it is. It isn’t perfect and it really doesn’t care. It revels in its honesty. It’s shrugged-shoulder-edness to the […]
The Doric Arch NW1 1DN (Tube: Euston)
Some pubs aren’t good for any particular reason. They just are. There is an indefinable magic to some boozers which has probably always been there and always will be. Maybe […]
The Queens Head WC1X 9NB (Tube: Kings Cross)
This pub starts very well. Looks cracking from the outside – sort of squeezed in like Grimauld Place in Harry Potter. From the outside it all looks quite 1950s with […]
The Snooty Fox N5 2NN (Tube: Canonbury)
Football, so I’m told, is a game of two halves. The Snooty Fox, in my eyes, is a pub of two halves. Directly opposite Canonbury Overground station this pub is […]
Hen and Chickens Theatre Bar N1 2NA (Tube: Highbury & Islington)
As I hurtle with a grim sense of inevitability towards being 30 I occasionally reminisce with my equally doomed peers about the golden days of our teens; those early forays […]
The Crown E3 5SN (Tube: Bethnal Green/Mile End)
In the interests of not coming across like a bit of a git I think it’s prudent for me to remind ourselves that I review pubs. If a venue is […]
100 Pints. 100 Posts. 1 Year of Pub Raiding.
100 pubs. Presumably at least 100 pints and now we’ve passed 100 posts. A little over a year ago my brother and I took our first pub centric adventure around […]
Ye Olde Mitre EC1N 6SJ (Tube; Chancery Lane)
The quality of stubbornness is not always given an easy ride. It’s associated with miserable old curmudgeons, foolhardy military leaders who’ve managed to get loads of people killed to prove […]
Newmans Arms W1T 1NG (Tube: Goodge Street)
On Google maps when you are looking for a particular convenience – supermarket, nearest IKEA, petrol station – you are often faced with a chickenpox map of the area. Hover […]
