The Ship Tavern WC2A 3HP (Tube: Holborn)
‘Two Dirty Tackles please’ As I inflicted the nonplussed bar staff to a snorting chortle at this utterly hilarious double entendre and received in turn a weary and knowingly glare […]
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The Cosy Club PE9 2RB (Stamford)
Already this sounds a bit wrong. Stamford is a quaint, stone market town with hearty, ruddy pubs. The Cosy Club should be the name of some swinging 50’s bar in […]
The Exeter Arms (Stamford/Barrowden)
I find it really hard to review the actual pubs. Part of me assumes everyone knows what a pub is like, that’s why you’re there. “Oh, you sell soft and […]
The Railway Inn (Stamford)
I have only vague memories of pubs in the 1990s given that I was only 14 when they finished. Those memories are dominated by red faux-velvet upholstery tacked down with […]
Royal Inn On the Park E9 7JH (Tube: Bethnal Green/Homerton)
Sadly it’s an undisputable fact that in order to continue the species and maintain our dominance of this watery little space faring rock we need to have offspring. It’s also […]
Melbourn Brothers/All Saint Brewery PE9 2PA (Stamford)
For me it is the mark of a good pub that you don’t know its name. The level of familiarity has gone past the point of names in much the […]
The Approach Tavern E2 9LY (Tube: Bethnal Green)
I’m slightly embarrassed to admit that I hadn’t realised I’d been to this pub before when I rediscovered it on one of my wanders. It’s slap bang in the middle […]
The Parcel Yard N1C 4AH (Tube: Kings Cross St Pancras)
Pubs in train stations are almost universally dreadful. They rank somewhere with A&E waiting areas and traffic jams on the list of places that are dire and depressing. What these […]
The Tobie Norris PE9 2BE (Stamford)
To be found at no.12 St Paul’s Street, the building has a rich history (full of garlands of fresh ‘erbs) traceable back to the 13th century, from whence it has […]
The Antelope SW1W 8EZ (Tube: Sloane Square)
The greatest reality TV series yet to be made is ‘Toffs on the Lash’. Here are some exerts from it that I’ve entirely made up. ‘Oh blahdy hell Tristan old boy […]
