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 […]
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Hen and Chickens Theatre Bar N1 2NA (Tube: Highbury & Islington)
As I hurtle with a grim sense of inevitability towards being 30 I occasionally reminisce with my equally doomed peers about the golden days of our teens; those early forays […]
Ye Olde Mitre EC1N 6SJ (Tube; Chancery Lane)
The quality of stubbornness is not always given an easy ride. It’s associated with miserable old curmudgeons, foolhardy military leaders who’ve managed to get loads of people killed to prove […]
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 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 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 […]
The Railway Inn (Stamford)
I have only vague memories of pubs in the 1990s given that I was only 14 when they finished. Those memories are dominated by red faux-velvet upholstery tacked down with […]
Royal Inn On the Park E9 7JH (Tube: Bethnal Green/Homerton)
Sadly it’s an undisputable fact that in order to continue the species and maintain our dominance of this watery little space faring rock we need to have offspring. It’s also […]
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 […]
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 […]
Raiders of the Lost Pubs 