Melbourn Brothers/All Saint Brewery PE9 2PA (Stamford)
For me it is the mark of a good pub that you don’t know its name. The level of familiarity has gone past the point of names in much the […]
Category Archives: *** Worth A Shot
The Parcel Yard N1C 4AH (Tube: Kings Cross St Pancras)
Pubs in train stations are almost universally dreadful. They rank somewhere with A&E waiting areas and traffic jams on the list of places that are dire and depressing. What these […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 Golden Heart E1 6LZ (Tube: Shoreditch High Street/Liverpool Street)
Visited Spitalfields Market? Bought yourself lots of overpriced handmade jewellery and second hand ‘vintage’ clothing? Sick of being walked into, trodden on or glared at? If you’re finding yourself veering […]
The John Snow W1F 9QJ (Tube: Oxford Circus)
Fans of gore soaked soft porn fantasy nonsense Game of Thrones will possibly deludedly assume that this pub is named in honour of one of it’s lead characters. It isn’t. […]
The Blue Posts W1B 5PX (Tube: Oxford Circus)
“Skinny Burger (bun-free, no chips) gherkin, red onion and lettuce” The Skinny Burger. Do you understand you’ve gone too far this time London? Is that where Moss and Brand and […]
The Queens Arms RG21 7JE (Tube: No chance)
There’s something deeply satisfying about lifting up a full pint glass for that first foamy taste. I don’t know if it arcs back to our tree-dwelling ancestors embracing tools for […]
Raiders of the Lost Pubs 