‘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 […]
‘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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
I can’t really explain why but I love a low ceiling. Estate agents, chief harbingers of the underworld as they are better known, would have us believe that high ceilings […]
You’d quite rightly expect somewhere called ‘Old Coffee Shop’ to sell caffeinated beverages as its flagship product wouldn’t you? Well this place doesn’t, so tough shit, it instead joins the […]
Ah the swinging sixties. Beatlemania is at its heady peak, man will soon land on the moon and rubber faced baboon man Mick Jagger is still in the first decade […]
Raiders of the Lost Pubs 