The Fitzroy Tavern: A Sam Smiths Bastard
In a world of bad hombres, smart cookies and Jeremy Corbyn, opening up a newspaper could leave you in dire need or a strong and stable lager*. One such purveyor […]
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The Palm Tree: The Pub Where Time Stopped Still
Whilst many pubs decide to hang on to original features like a wobbly floor or an elaborate bar, most of the smart ones update themselves with a healthy overhaul once […]
Lord Morpeth: Sourdough and Sanctuary
Occasionally we all have a day that’s shite; resulting in you feeling like you want to get so biblically pissed you can’t remember your own name, or see. Very occasionally […]
The Duke of Sussex: Horror at Waterloo
The hardest bit of reviewing a pub is to know what balance to strike between complements and critique, humour and insight, facts and fancy in order to provide you, the […]
The Lord Tredegar: Mile End
The smell of coal smoke is a rare thing in London these days, and given the strange nostalgia stirring properties of the whiff this is perhaps a shame. Caught on […]
BrewHaus (Lincoln)
Lincoln is a city that can be cut cleanly into two halves. The top half, The Bailgate, is a little cobbled honeytrap. A crooked, meandering street lined with toffee shops, […]
The Crown Hotel (Stamford)
I’m not sure I’m going to write this review. On one hand the subject has a distinct advantage, having been subject to numerous visits in all seasons at all times […]
The Kings Arms E2 6EY (Tube: Bethnal Green)
Refurbishments of pubs happen all the time in East London and the results are not always an improvement. In fact the outcome isn’t even always a pub, however lacklustre, but […]
The Sun Tavern E2 0AN (Tube: Bethnal Green)
I’ve had more than a few pints in caves. In Nottingham there is a pub (one of three in the city which claim to be the oldest, all of which […]
Kingston Arms (Cambridge)
The man at the bar had the most fantastic nose. If noses could tell stories then this nose would probably have some stories to tell, and would proceed to tell […]
Raiders of the Lost Pubs 