What Makes The Perfect Pub?
Occasionally, and most often just after I’ve posted one of my more scathing reviews, I am asked ‘what does actually make the perfect pub?’. Sadly I fear that such a place […]
Category Archives: West London
Monopoly Board Pub Crawl
Pub crawls come in all shapes and sizes. There are those which start off as a swift pint and descend into an impromptu all day session. There are those which […]
The Bull W12 7SL (Tube: Shepherds Bush)
Oft have I sat back and wondered what it’d be like to hear someone sing Soft Cell’s Tainted Love with their head wedged up a badgers arse. Though I’m yet […]
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 […]
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 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 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 Queen Adelaide W12 0NR (Tube: Shepherds Bush Market)
I find it pretty easy to find faults in pubs. A fair bit of the time I find half a dozen things I’d joyfully lampoon before I’ve even walked through […]
The Trafalgar Tavern SE10 9NW (Tube: Cutty Sark)
We arrived at The Trafalgar Tavern ‘one pint minutes’ too soon, having done a whip-lash inducing about turn in The Yacht a few yards down the road. Proper pubs do […]
Raiders of the Lost Pubs 