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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Parcel Yard N1C 4AH (Tube: Kings Cross St Pancras)
Pubs in train stations are almost universally dreadful. They rank somewhere with A&E waiting areas and traffic jams on the list of places that are dire and depressing. What these […]
The Antelope SW1W 8EZ (Tube: Sloane Square)
The greatest reality TV series yet to be made is ‘Toffs on the Lash’. Here are some exerts from it that I’ve entirely made up. ‘Oh blahdy hell Tristan old boy […]
The Star Tavern SW1X 8HT (Tube: Knightbridge)
Canyon faced Frankenstein’s monster lookalike kitchen tyrant Gordon Ramsey has bellowed at cowering publicans and restaurateurs for years to ‘$£%@ing simplify’. In his exasperated sweary way Gordon is always trying […]
The Grenadier SW1X 7NR (Tube: Hyde Park Corner)
There are a miscellany of things which contributed to me concluding that The Grenadier is actually fairly terrible. A historic pub which started life as a military mess hall and […]
The Nags Head SW1X 8ED (Tube: Kensington)
Rules are a necessary part of civilisation as we know it. Rules are why when I cross a zebra crossing I don’t get mown down by a maniac in a […]
Raiders of the Lost Pubs 