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 […]
Category Archives: **** Two Pints Plus
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 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 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 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 […]
Raiders of the Lost Pubs 