What Makes The Perfect Pub?
Occasionally, and most often just after I’ve posted one of my more scathing reviews, I am asked ‘what does actually make the perfect pub?’. Sadly I fear that such a place […]
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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 […]
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 Fellow N1 9AA (Tube: Kings Cross)
‘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 […]
The Green Man W1W 7EP (Tube: Goodge Street)
Not being able to locate the door of a pub due to the massive throng of people outside is a pretty strong indication that it’s going to be rather good. […]
The Calf Clapham SW4 0DR (Tube: Clapham Common)
As loathe as I am to use the phrase; Clapham is ‘up and coming’. Stepping off the tube at any of its three stations and you will almost immediately be […]
The Lamb Tavern EC3V 1LR (Tube: Bank/Liverpool Street)
There are times when wearing a tie is a prerequisite. Job interviews, probably funerals and weddings and graduation ceremonies. Some people have to wear them at work or for meetings […]
The Railway SW4 7UR (Tube: Clapham North/Clapham High Street)
It seems that purple is the hip colour for pubs to be painted at the moment as this tidy little corner boozer follows the trend set by The Crown and […]
The Grapes E14 8BP (Tube: Westferry)
In a part of London called Limehouse there stood a pub. Not a nasty, overcrowded, touristy pub, filled with wheely suitcases and suspicious smells, nor yet a deserted, bare, lonely […]
The Marksman E2 7SJ (Tube: Hoxton/Old Street)
Before I write a review I usually have a brief nose around that there t’internet to see what else has been said about it in the past. Given that my […]
Raiders of the Lost Pubs 