The Nell Gwynne Tavern WC2R 0NP (Tube: Charing Cross)
Pubs where you can’t tell what time of day or night are dangerous. Much like Las Vegas casino’s they lull you into a false sense of security where you think […]
Category Archives: *** Worth A Shot
The Colonel Fawcett NW1 0SS (Tube: Camden Rd)
The Colonel Fawcett becomes the second pub I’ve reviewed which has achieved a small measure of fame for having had someone get shot to death within its walls (see The […]
The Green Man (Stamford)
Before I go on to talk about something completely different, which I assure you I do, let me first review this pub. This is a really good pub – loads […]
The Doric Arch NW1 1DN (Tube: Euston)
Some pubs aren’t good for any particular reason. They just are. There is an indefinable magic to some boozers which has probably always been there and always will be. Maybe […]
The Queens Head WC1X 9NB (Tube: Kings Cross)
This pub starts very well. Looks cracking from the outside – sort of squeezed in like Grimauld Place in Harry Potter. From the outside it all looks quite 1950s with […]
The Snooty Fox N5 2NN (Tube: Canonbury)
Football, so I’m told, is a game of two halves. The Snooty Fox, in my eyes, is a pub of two halves. Directly opposite Canonbury Overground station this pub is […]
The Crown E3 5SN (Tube: Bethnal Green/Mile End)
In the interests of not coming across like a bit of a git I think it’s prudent for me to remind ourselves that I review pubs. If a venue is […]
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 […]
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 […]
Raiders of the Lost Pubs 