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All Bar One |
Bass |
There are quite a number of All Bar Ones in the city (or is it All Bars One?), and this is typical. Your recce team have some difficulty accepting them as pubs, but understand that they have their attractions... |
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All Bar One |
Bass |
See above. |
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All Bar One Bass |
Bass |
See above. |
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All Bar One |
Bass |
See above. |
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The Angel |
Bass |
Not particularly notable, other than role it played in saving a Monopoly Pub Crawl from an early bath. Looks as if it's been remodelled internally, a little smarter than our recollection. |
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The Arbitrager |
Courage Best |
City name, ordinary pub, famed in the square mile for its Guinness |
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The Banker |
Fullers London Pride |
Cavernous Fuller's pub under the railway bridge across the Thames out of Cannon Street station. In the summer you can sit by the river watching the world and the trains go by, smelling the air extraction from Cannons sports club up the road. In the winter, stay inside and enjoy the ESB... |
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Barley Mow |
Boddingtons |
Wooden floors with some old, old carpets and friendly bar staff in this popular pub. Usually there's a better beer selection than the night we recce'd |
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Baynard Castle |
Fullers London Pride |
Large and uninteresting |
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The Bell |
Courage Best |
The "Oldest small pub in the city selling finest ale", whatever that means. Short of a description of what constitutes a "small pub", we'll just say that this one dates from the Fire of London. |
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Bierrex |
NRA, but see comments |
No cask ale at this modern bar, but a large selection of bottled Belgian bottled beers which are of course a thoroughly acceptable alternative. Worth visiting if you should get beer fatigue from Bass, Pride etc. |
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Bill Bentleys |
NRA |
Wot, a Young's house with NRA? Actually it's really a wine bar with some Young's beers in bottles. There may be a number in the city, we only spotted this one. |
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The Bishops Finger |
Bishops Finger |
Much refurbished Sheps pub. Used to feel like a part of Kent by the Smithfield market, no more of a metropolitan drinking house - all newly varnished woodwork and Sting on the jukebox. There's an upstairs "bar" and restaurant. A bit of a shame really. |
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The Bishop of Norwich |
Yates Old Wallop |
One of many Yates' wine bars whose only claim to beer fame is Yates Old Wallop, reputedly a mixture of Courage Directors and port. |
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The Blackfriar |
Tetley |
Famous old pub at the northern end of Blackfriars Bridge. Etched metal friezes and a marble-surfaced bar distinguish the interior which is usually busy. On summer evenings the outside gets pretty packed too. Always worth a visit. |
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The Blue Anchor |
Courage Best |
Situated under an office block in this legal area, not sure there's a lot to add. |
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The Brittania |
Fullers London Pride |
Not a Fuller's House, but rather a large featureless underground pub. Would have been burnt during the Great Fire of London. |
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The Broadgate Exchange |
Theakstons XB |
As good as could be expected in the middle of the ultramodern Broadgate complex. |
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The Bull |
Ruddles County |
Pretty standard pub, albeit a rare sighting of Ruddles. |
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The Bunch of Grapes |
Fullers London Pride |
One of a number of charming pubs in the lovingly maintained Leadenhall market, almost worth a crawl all on its own. A must see area. |
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The Butlers Head |
Beer |
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The Cannon |
Bass |
Sports bar, not much seating. |
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The Cartoonist |
Courage Best |
Loads of pine and very "themed" with lots of "original" cartoons on the walls. |
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The Castle |
Tetleys |
Popular corner pub, founded in 1541 |
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Cheshire Cheese |
Fullers London Pride |
Well-known pub in the tunnels at the back of Fenchurch street station. Old and traditional but the beer selection was only normal. Games room upstairs with a couple of pool tables, table football, video games etc. |
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The City Darts |
Beer |
Not really in the city, but on the periphery. So well know it needs a mention |
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The City House |
Young's Ordinary |
Really a wine bar/restaurant, but there was a lonely tap with a Youngs label on it. |
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City of London Yeoman |
Tetleys |
Not very inviting, but no worse than average |
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The City Retreat |
Young's Ordinary |
The city retreat, a traditional Youngs pubs in a modern building with historical photographs (we couldn't identify a theme). There's a darts board, slow disco music in the background and short bar staff (not sure why we noticed that). |
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City Tavern |
Beer |
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City Tup |
Brakspears Best |
One of a small themed chain of eight pubs which includes the pub formerly known as Minogue's, now "The Islington Tup". Actually not too bad, albeit a bit busy when we were there, but some attempt had been made. |
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The Clachan |
beer |
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Coach & Horses |
Greene King IPA |
There's a pool room upstairs, but this GK pub wasn't so very different from a number of others in the area. |
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The Cock & Woolpack |
Fullers London Pride |
Gravity-fed barrels behind the bar, and the place is sandwiched next to a LIFFE office. (closed 8:30) |
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The Cock Tavern |
beer |
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The Cockpit |
Courage Best |
A small, cosy old Courage pub |
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The Counting House |
Fullers London Pride |
Another bank conversion from Fullers - see the Old Bank of England for the original - on the same monumental scale with marble walls, wooden floors and a large central bar. There's a huge central glass dome - must look amazing in the daylight - and the chandeliers did look a little familiar. Surely not a job lot? |
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The Crispin |
Beer |
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Crowders Well |
Greene King IPA |
In the concrete heart of the Barbican complex is this surprisingly enterprising pub. All the GK regulars are here plus an array of guests mostly gravity-supplied. There is usually plenty of room and a view of the Barbican lake if you want to pretend to be somewhere other than the city! |
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Dirty Dick's |
Young's Ordinary |
Once a very disreputable place full of stuffed animals, now cleaned up for the health inspectors and tourists visiting Petticoat Lane market. |
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Duke's |
Tetley
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Slightly odd place. Part café, part pub and the signs of the wall suggest it turns into some sort of club when it gets late. Dodgy bar staff, dodgy beer, good pizza. |
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East India Arms |
Bass |
OK-ish if you're about to leave from Fenchurch Street station and you don't fancy The Raven Bar in the station. |
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The Eastern Monk |
Wadworths Tanner's Jack |
Sister pub of The Monk (q.v.) with more of the same only on a much larger scale. Reminiscent of some of JD Wetherspoons more gargantuan premises with hot and cold running food until ten in the evening. |
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The Elephant |
Young's Ordinary |
An older Young's pub sandwiched between the office blocks of Fenchurch street. |
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The First & Last |
Fullers London Pride |
Pretty much All-Bar-One in style, on the end of the faux-traditional parade of shops along the Bishopsgate frontage of the Broadgate development. |
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The Fleetwood |
Fullers Chiswick |
Modern pub in the bottom of a modern office block in the modern Broadgate development behind Liverpool Street station. Usual beers, though. |
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The Forster & Firkin |
Forster Ale |
Rathe smaller than the average Firkin, with plenty of noise and TV screens that are now becoming the hallmark of this chain. |
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The Globe |
Marston's Pedigree |
No notes managed to be made about this one! |
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Golden Fleece |
Greene King IPA |
Large GK pub of some antiquity. Game playing area includes one of the latest Williams pinball machines! |
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The Hamilton Hall |
Theakstons Best |
One of JDW's finest, an enormous main bar fashioned from the ex-ballroom of the Great Eastern Hotel at Liverpool Street Station. Usually pretty busy, but the addition of a champagne and whisky bar has helped ease the space. Makes it very easy to forget your train... |
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The Hand & Shears |
Courage Best |
Three small rooms clustered around a central bar, but the beer wasn't in great shape. |
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The Harrow |
Bass |
Yet another cosy "city pub", which opens late in the latter half of the week |
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The Hatchet |
Beer |
Would you believe another small city pub? |
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Hogshead Ale House |
Gales Winter Brew |
Incongruously situated underneath the garish transatlantic style office blocks in America Square, the inside of this huge pub appear to be a mixture of original railway arch brickwork and recent wooden fittings (they still smell new). |
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Hogshead Ale House |
Cains Traditional Ale |
In a very modern office surrounding right under The Monument, but with stone floors and a large beer selection. Pretty busy. |
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Hogshead Ale House |
Marston Pedigree Boddingtons Brakespears Bitter Wadsworths 6X |
Latest city addition to the chain. In a very modern office surrounding just along from the Lloyd's building, without the usual grim stone floors wood panelling |
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The Hole in the Wall |
Beer |
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Hoop and Grapes |
Fullers London Pride |
Pretty good for the area, and a haunt of folks from the NatWest computer centre. Large dark, woody, surrounds in a pub that stays open later (10:00) than some in the city. Right on the border! |
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Horn Tavern |
Courage Best |
Large below-ground pub with many cosy booths plus a games area with pool and bar billiards tables. On the night we visited there was a large crowd of Japanese bankers present, no doubt drowning their sorrows |
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Hung Drawn and Quartered |
Fullers London Pride |
Another new conversion in the Fuller's Ale and Pie House brand, with a cosy looking interior and walls covered with pictures |
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Jamaica Wine House |
Bass |
Early closing back alley pub near St. Michael's Church |
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John Keats at the Moorgate |
NRA |
Just as well his poetry is better than this pub. |
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Kings Arms |
Beer |
Text |
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The Kings Stores |
Fullers London Pride |
Standard |
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Lamb Tavern |
Young's Special |
Famous old Young's pub in the middle of the historic and restored Leadenhall market. An early closer, so usually seen at it's best around lunch time. |
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Liberty Bounds |
Lees Ruff 'Ed |
Very new addition to the JDW chain in the usual style, but a welcome addition to the area near the Tower. We actually tried the Weston's Country Cider when we were there - delicious |
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London Stone |
Courage John Smiths |
Medieval themed pub. Novelty toilets. Despite all this, not too bad. |
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The Lord Aberconway |
Tetley |
Looked OK, but we were on the way home and it didn't entice us in... |
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Lord Raglan |
Courage Best |
Amazing large multilevel layout pub let down by very loud music and well, it IS a SC pub. There's even a tree apparently growing inside, but the Bose sound system makes sure you won't be having too many conversations. |
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The Magpie |
Tetley |
Cosy pub just opposite Liverpool Street station. Nice haven if you don't fancy the Hamilton Hall! |
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The Magpie & Stump |
NRA |
Hypermodern bar near the old Bailey full of This Life-type extras. |
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The Mailcoach |
Courage Best |
Large, modern underground pub. Unremarkable. |
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The Master Gunner |
Young's Special |
Well, not a spectacular example of a Young's pub, but it did have an Indy 500 pinball machine. Locals friendly! |
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The Melton Mowbray |
Fullers London Pride |
Large Fuller's Ale and Pie house with characteristic darkened wood and floor tiles. Right opposite the Pru building. |
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The Minories |
Courage Directors |
Advertised state of the art sounds. Was closed when we passed by. |
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The Mucky Duck |
Fullers London Pride |
Small GK pub where the Pride tasted suspiciously like Abbott! One member of the recce team remarked that the place smelled of mouldy overcoats and tea. |
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New Moon |
Fullers London Pride |
"Get hip with the hops" was the advertising above the bar at this place. A high-ceilinged bar at the edge of Leadenhall market, with a small more modern "vaults room" downstairs serving Pizza Hut comestibles. Nice range of beers. |
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The Newmarket |
Beer |
Text |
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O'Neill's Irish Bar |
NRA |
O'boy |
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O'Neill's Irish Bar |
NRA |
O'my gosh |
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O'Neill's Irish Bar |
NRA |
O'dear |
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The Old Bank of England |
Fullers London Pride |
One of Fuller's first Ale & Pie house ventures, in a magnificent old banking hall with high ceiling and plenty of people. They still had summer ale on during this recce, bound to be gone by the time of the crawl, but what better than ESB on the winter anyway? A must visit if you're in the area. |
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Old Bell Tavern |
Timothy Taylor Landlord |
A really old pub on Fleet Street with many nooks and crannies and a traditional stone floor. As usual the TT Landlord guest beer hadn't survived the journey down from Yorkshire very well. |
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Ye Old Cheshire Cheese |
Old Brewery Bitter |
Wonderful old pub with many small bars, not all of which are open at any one time. Unfortunately SS's beer shipping policy means that not all of it's beers are available at any one time either, it's OBB or nothing down south. |
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The Old Cobblers |
Theakstons Best |
Terrace brasserie style, lots of new wood, empty |
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Ye Old Dr Butlers Head |
Fullers London Pride |
A medium-size pub down one of the innumerable alleys that seem to penetrate the city streets. |
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The Old King Lud |
Rebellion Blonde Bombshell |
Enormous beer palace with frequent "festivals" featuring a wide range of beers. The list here indicates the sort of range, and subsequent visits show continued variety. Usually half a dozen beers on hand pumps, guests on gravity-fed barrels. Some complain about Whitbread, but this busy pub seems to do the business. Tasters available. |
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The Old Monk |
Courage Directors |
Pretty uninspiring. Unwelcoming in fact. |
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The Old Monk |
Beer |
Text |
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The Old Monk |
Barnsley Bitter |
A full complement of beers from the relatively young Barnsley brewery and a slightly more intimate atmosphere than the sister pub The Eastern Monk. The place was empty after eight o'clock, but was promising food available until ten. Similar in style to the JDW chain. |
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Ye Old Red Cow |
Master Brew |
Quaint little Sheps pub with very small downstairs bar and an upstairs bar reached via a set of twisty stairs. The brewery is 300 years old this year, hence the Celebration Ale |
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The Old Tea Warehouse |
Greene King IPA |
Attractive courtyard setting complete with outside heaters. Well hidden among the backstreets, maybe worth the detour. |
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Ye Olde Cock Tavern |
Courage Directors |
A large pub, "the oldest pub on Fleet Street". Just about to close when we visited. |
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Ye Olde London |
Theakstons Old Peculier |
An old original William Younger's pub (yes BEFORE S&N took them over), but alas the usual Scottish Courage atmosphere now. |
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Ye Olde Watling Bar&Res |
Bass |
Ye Olde Spit and Sawdust sort of pub, with a barmaid who "wanted to get out of the hospitality game". No comment added. |
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Pavilion End |
Bass |
The notes when deciphered said "The sports bar to end all sports bars", which we think meant it was a loud brash sort of place with lots of TVs. |
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The Peacock |
Courage Best |
The beer selection says it all. Some of us are nostalgic for a good pint of Courage, but recent experiences urge caution. |
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Piranha Bar |
NRA |
Very dark, halloweeny-looking bar with not a real ale in sight. Good name, though. |
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Pitcher & Piano |
Pedigree |
Ex-Bar Excellence. Nice if you like this kind of thing.
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Pitcher & Piano |
Marstons Pedigree |
Well, they are run by Marstons.. Plenty of these around, and for the people that like them, great. |
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The Plough |
Beer |
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The Podium |
Fullers London Pride |
A modern pub somewhere in the walkways between Moorgate and the Barbican. We may never find it again, but then, would be care? |
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Poet's Corner |
Breakspears Bitter |
A bit AllBarOne style, books by the yard, city types by the mile.... |
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The Porters Lodge Arthur Street, EC4 |
Bass |
Yet another wooden re-creation unde a modern office block. A classy leather chair provided next to the telephone for people with the need to make long calls... |
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The Printers Devil |
NRA |
Pizza Hut pizzas available all day but no real beer. Might have been a nice pub once, now just a red pool table to interest the punters. |
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The Pumphouse |
Beer |
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Punch Tavern |
Everards Tiger |
Lovely old pub with furbished plaster walls, many pictures of "Mr. Punch", a marble top bar, loads of mirrors etc etc. Air conditioning too. Delightful. |
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Queens Head |
Beer |
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Rack & Tenter |
Breakspears Bitter |
Another pub with a list of beers, but not many recce notes. It's near to Moorgate station which isn't usually a recommendation |
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Railway Tavern |
Fuller's London Pride |
OK, right opposite Liverpool Street station - there's a much better pub inside the station (see The Hamilton Hall) |
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The Red Lion |
Theakstons Best |
On the very edge of the city boundary - with plenty of guests advertised and some available. A bit spit and sawdust and a 10:00 closing time during the week. |
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The Red Lion |
Morland Old Speckled Hen |
An "old" pub rebuilt in the middle of an office complex with a small upstairs and huge downstairs. Really GREAT chips - served until 8:30. Well worth a visit. |
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The Rising Sun |
Old Brewery Bitter |
Lovely old pub in the mediaeval surrounds of Barts Hospital. With two bars and unchanged in years (maybe centuries..) |
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The Rising Sun |
Fullers London Pride |
Not exactly sure of the provenance of this place in the back streets behind Blackfriars. Better bars nearby.. |
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Ryans |
NRA |
Busy O'Irish pub, wall to wall. |
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Scottish Pound |
All off |
As was the pub |
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Scruffy Murphys |
NRA |
But VERY busy |
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The Seahorse |
Courage Best |
Modern corner pub just down the road from the far more interestingly styled Mappin & Webb building |
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Shamus O'Donnell's |
NRA |
Yet another O'Irish bar. Won't they ever learn? |
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Shaws Booksellers/Eating House |
Fullers London Pride |
Rather similar in style to an All-Bar-One (q.v.) |
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Ship & Compass |
Tetleys |
Hardly advantageously place in the courtyard in front of Fenchurch Street station. Rumoured to be the venue of post-Christmas parties thrown by IBM for the system programmers at NatWest. Hardly a recommendation. |
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The Ship |
Pembroke Golden Hill Ale |
Old city courtyard/alleway pub. Great Stuff |
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The Ship |
Theakstons Best |
On the edge of Leadenhall market in an underground 18th century cellar. Do you really need to go underground to drink these beers? |
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The Ship |
Theakstons Best |
Ex-William Youngers pub. Shame |
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The Shooting Star |
Fullers London Pride |
Yet another Ale & Pie House with all the usual fixtures and fittings, plus a downstairs bar for parties. |
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Simpsons Tavern |
Bass |
There was a private party on when we went past, but an interesting looking place none the less. In a wee court just off Cornhill |
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Slug And Lettuce |
Fullers London Pride |
Amazingly David "Firkin" Bruce is a director of Grosvenor Inns who are responsible for this chain. This one is ultra modern, and not in our opinion really a pub. You decide. |
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The Slurping Toad |
Lionheart Gold |
Promised rather more than it delivered. One of the pubs of the Eldridge Pope estate, now divorced from the brewing arm called Thomas Hardy Brewing. Rather noisy, and the beer was perhaps a little on cold side. |
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The Slurping Toad |
Hardy Country Bitter |
Similar to the above, slightly different beer choices. Just up from the Old King Lud in case that place is too busy for you. |
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Smithfields |
Fuller's London Pride |
Large pub just round the corner from the Smithfield meat markets, and the bouncers looked like they had consumed large quantities of the produce from there. Very much a sports bar with table football and pool tables to add to the televisions. |
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St. Bride Tavern |
Courage Best |
Looks Scottish Courage, Sells Scottish Courage, IS Scottish Courage....(or else something else disguised with a beer contract frm Scottish Courage) |
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Still & Star |
Bass |
Small pub next to Aldgate tube station. Not a lot else to be said |
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The Swan |
Fullers London Pride |
Delightful old Fuller's pub, with tiny narrow downstairs bar and the main upstairs bar overhanging adjacent building works. Friendly landlord. |
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Terry Neil's Sports Bar |
Lager? |
All right, so we didn't actually visit but I'm sure a die-hard Arsenal supporter would want to visit this place in an office block off Holborn Viaduct... |
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Three Crowns |
Beer |
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Three Lords |
Young's Special |
Have you seen how busy the road is on the Minories? |
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The Three Tuns |
Bass |
Yet another Bass Taverns hole. |
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The Throgmorton |
Young's Ordinary |
Primarily a restaurant but with a classy upstairs bar. Closes 9:00. |
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The Tiger Tavern |
Couldn't see |
...and we didn't want to go in anyway |
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The Tipperary |
Greene King IPA |
Heavens, a REAL Irish bar, from the time before themes. Standing room only along the bar rail downstairs, seats upstairs. Useful port of call. |
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Toad in the Hole |
Greene King IPA |
Must have had a few too many when writing the notes which say: "`pickled' pub smelling of stale tea. Curious" |
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Underwriter |
Courage Best |
Situated right underneath one of Palumbo's famous office towers. It was quiz night when we visited and two women were on their knees praying to the cigarette machine. Curious. |
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Viaduct Tavern |
Adnams Southwold Bitter |
Old pub opposite the Old Bailey with apparently a mostly non-city clientele. Victorian glass-covered paintings and booths around the curved front wall add to the interest. |
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Vino Veritas Leadenhall Street, EC3A |
Courage Best Courage Directors John Smiths |
A filthy Dive, but pretty cheap. Tended by a nasty mute Italian barman and a chronically depressed barmaid. |
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The Vintry |
Fullers London Pride |
A rarity for the city, an old Fuller's pub. Quite a number of nooks and crannies (and a snug that is bookable for parties), pretty good looking if a little busy most of the time. |
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Walrus & Carpenter |
Beer |
May now be The Brittania (q.v.) |
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The White Hart |
Bass |
Not spectacular - busy and close enough to Liverpool street station to persuade you to visit the Hamilton Hall in preference. |
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The White Hart |
Bass |
The local for Snow Hill nick. The gents were out of use "due to security". Enuf said. |
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White Swan |
Courage Directors |
A lot of TVs and looking eerily similar to the other White Swan, that is, not very good. |
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The White Swan |
Courage Directors |
Pretty ordinary. On the way to Oddbins Fine Wines a hundred or so yards up the road |
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Williams Wine & Ale House |
Rebellion Mutiny |
Nice old cosy pub, a bit off the beaten track. From the same team that brought you the Hogshead chain from Whitbread. |
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Williamsons Tavern |
Greene King IPA |
Comfortable pub in a seculded court off Bow Lane, once run by many generations of Williamsons. Now a decent effort by Nicholsons. |
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The Wine Lodge |
Young's Ordinary |
The upper bar closed early, and the cavernous lower bar contained some arguing underwriters. The WW was some of the worst we've tasted. |
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Witness Box |
Courage Directors |
Underground cellar bar near the Middle Temple - we got rather a frosty reception. "Chambers" Wine Bar upstairs. Originality - nul points. |
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Woodins Shades |
Bass |
Perhaps we were suffering from recce fatigue at this point. We had nothing to say about this place. |
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