The Lord Burghley PE9 1PG (Stamford)
“Awwwlrigh’ maaate… D… Doo… D-d-d-dooooo. Do yous ‘appen to know? Where the toils…tos… toilets are?” a man stood in the porch of the Lord Burghley asked one evening. “It doesn’t […]
Author Archives: pubraiderjones
The Star Tavern SW1X 8HT (Tube: Knightbridge)
Canyon faced Frankenstein’s monster lookalike kitchen tyrant Gordon Ramsey has bellowed at cowering publicans and restaurateurs for years to ‘$£%@ing simplify’. In his exasperated sweary way Gordon is always trying […]
The Grenadier SW1X 7NR (Tube: Hyde Park Corner)
There are a miscellany of things which contributed to me concluding that The Grenadier is actually fairly terrible. A historic pub which started life as a military mess hall and […]
The House of Trembling Madness (48 Stonegate, York) 01904 640009
In York, there are too many pubs with gunk-nozzled tomato sauce bottles on the tables. Thankfully, this is not one of them. Outside, along Stonegate, the snap-happy hordes are in […]
The Nags Head SW1X 8ED (Tube: Kensington)
Rules are a necessary part of civilisation as we know it. Rules are why when I cross a zebra crossing I don’t get mown down by a maniac in a […]
The Viaduct Tavern EC1A 7AA (Tube: St Pauls)
Are you sitting comfortably? Probably not if you’re at The Viaduct Tavern. This fortuitously located corner pub is undoubtedly rather good but bugger me is it short on places to […]
The Camel E2 0JD (Tube: Bethnal Green)
Picture the scene. It’s starting to get dark, you’ve discovered a new pub, it’s not that expensive, you’re with your two best mates, they have a pie only menu, non […]
The Kings Stores E1 7HP (Tube: Liverpool Street)
In order to avoid boring anyone to death and give me time to do other things with my frankly pointless existence I’ve often fairly conservative with my word count when […]
The Carpenters Arms E2 6EG (Tube: Bethnal Green)
The inexorable onslaught of the Kindle, George Osbournes relentless vendetta against all public services and the rise of dubious fact emporium ‘Wikipedia’ has resulted in a steep decline in visits […]
Lincoln Lounge N1 9AB (Tube: Kings Cross)
Lounge is not a word I associate with pubs. It’s a word which I’d pair with ‘cocktail’, ‘first class’ or potentially ‘suit’ but not with the word pub. Despite my […]
