The Old George E2 0AN (Tube: Bethnal Green)
The first clue you get that this pub can’t really be bothered is by noting that it doesn’t even open till four. I discovered this after calling to book a […]
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The Bull W12 7SL (Tube: Shepherds Bush)
Oft have I sat back and wondered what it’d be like to hear someone sing Soft Cell’s Tainted Love with their head wedged up a badgers arse. Though I’m yet […]
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 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 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 […]
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 […]
Raiders of the Lost Pubs 