The Colonel Fawcett NW1 0SS (Tube: Camden Rd)
The Colonel Fawcett becomes the second pub I’ve reviewed which has achieved a small measure of fame for having had someone get shot to death within its walls (see The […]
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The Cat and Mutton – Rebooted E8 4QJ (Train: London Fields)
Given that this pub is something of an East London institution it felt worthy of me paying it a visit with an eye to a fresh review after its recent […]
The Windmill SW4 9DE (Tube: Clapham Common)
‘Windmilling’ is the alarming practice by which a young chap exposes his John Thomas to all and sundry and swirls said appendage around by means of a gyrating hip motion. […]
The Assembly House NW5 2TG (Tube: Kentish Town)
It’s the second time we’ve raided this pub and still no review. Read between the lines. Well, try and read between the lines because there aren’t going to be many. […]
The Goat SW11 1EQ (Tube:Clapham Junction)
Some pubs do other pubs a favour. Sports dedicated bars ensure that footbalists are a minimal presence in normal places on match days. Gastro pubs provide a meeting point for […]
The Old Eagle NW1 9LU (Tube: Camden Rd)
There is no pretence with this pub. It is the pub it is. It isn’t perfect and it really doesn’t care. It revels in its honesty. It’s shrugged-shoulder-edness to the […]
The Doric Arch NW1 1DN (Tube: Euston)
Some pubs aren’t good for any particular reason. They just are. There is an indefinable magic to some boozers which has probably always been there and always will be. Maybe […]
The Queens Head WC1X 9NB (Tube: Kings Cross)
This pub starts very well. Looks cracking from the outside – sort of squeezed in like Grimauld Place in Harry Potter. From the outside it all looks quite 1950s with […]
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 […]
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 […]
Raiders of the Lost Pubs 