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 […]
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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 […]
Well and Bucket E2 7DG (Tube: Shoreditch High Street/Bethnal Green)
We’ve all been there. Stood at the bar not quite concentrating and pondering great questions. Cash or card? Do I know that person over there? Could that ache in my […]
The Star of Bethnal Green E2 6LG (Tube: Bethnal Green)
Sometimes you have to accept that some of the things that you love and hold dear will simply repulse other people. Perhaps your partner has a face like a poorly […]
The Princess Victoria W12 9DH (Tube: Shepherds Bush Market)
‘Wine. Cheeseboard. Quiz. Gin. Gin. Pee. Gin. Pee. Gin. Victory. Last orders. Bourbon. Bill. Home.’ I think that fairly accurately describes my experience at the Princess Victoria though I assume […]
The Fellow N1 9AA (Tube: Kings Cross)
‘Food glorious food, hot sausage and mustard.’ If Oliver Twist teaches us anything it’s that over worked Victorian orphans are greedy ungrateful little gits who would pick your pocket quicker […]
The Butchers Hook and Cleaver EC1A 9DY (Tube: Farringdon/Barbican)
Pies are quite rightly synonymous with ale; they go together like Morecambe and Wise, flat pack furniture and Allen keys, North Korea and human rights abuses and there is nothing […]
The Porterhouse WC2E 7NA (Tube: Leicester Square)
There have been more than a few occasions on my trips around pubs where there has been a temptation to succumb to the lure of drinking until an ambulance is […]
Raiders of the Lost Pubs 