matt DC omg you've obv never been to the prince of wales feathers on warren street lately.
― ILX Systern (ken c), Thursday, 2 October 2008 13:28 (fifteen years ago) link
The Jerusalem's great if very small: cloudy own-brew cider!
― Neil S, Thursday, 2 October 2008 13:28 (fifteen years ago) link
You people are making me want a drink. I have to go to the 100 Club tonight so maybe I shall stop in at the Champion and look at the pictures of cricketers' mighty beards.
― Kate of the Pier = MICROPROG (Masonic Boom), Thursday, 2 October 2008 13:29 (fifteen years ago) link
Rocket fuel (xp)
― Tom D says "...get them fuckin' up here, ya fuckin' walloper!" (Tom D.), Thursday, 2 October 2008 13:29 (fifteen years ago) link
the hottest barmaid/waitress in london works at Medcalf formerly at comptoir Gascon.
― Christopher Blix Hammer (Ed), Thursday, 2 October 2008 13:29 (fifteen years ago) link
I like the non-Sam Smiths Blue Post(s?) on Berwick Street. And newish to me is the Green Man in 'noho', if only for the huge cider selection.
― narlus spectre (gnarly sceptre), Thursday, 2 October 2008 13:29 (fifteen years ago) link
you deserve a smack upside the head for calling it noho
― Christopher Blix Hammer (Ed), Thursday, 2 October 2008 13:31 (fifteen years ago) link
It's noho square!
― narlus spectre (gnarly sceptre), Thursday, 2 October 2008 13:31 (fifteen years ago) link
Cunty tho, aye.
Also, the King Charles IV by King's Cross. Small place with a decent Jukebox, good beer, bar billiards, and you can have take-away delivered there.
― narlus spectre (gnarly sceptre), Thursday, 2 October 2008 13:32 (fifteen years ago) link
I've really got into the Carpenter's Arms on Whitfield Street recently, it's far too rammed on thursday or friday nights, but earlier in the week it's a great little pub.
The Carp would be great were it not for the fact that it is ALWAYS rammed with tosspots from the advertising agency across the road. You also have to go up two flights of stairs to take a wee.
Bricklayers thirded.
― ShNick (Upt0eleven), Thursday, 2 October 2008 13:32 (fifteen years ago) link
I want to do a pub crawl around that backstreet bit between St Paul's and Farringdon Road, taking in the Jerusalem Tavern and a few others. There seem to be loads of good boozers there that I have never set foot in. This can't be allowed to continue.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 2 October 2008 13:33 (fifteen years ago) link
This thread is knowledge.
I went to this weird bar in Fitzrovia that's done out like a 40s living room, Bourne & Hollingsworth. It was alright. Mostly cocktails not beer, though, but not snooty. Young people.
I like Two Floors on Kingly Street as well.
― Jamie T Smith, Thursday, 2 October 2008 13:33 (fifteen years ago) link
You also have to go up two flights of stairs to take a wee.
Not if you start on the roof terrace!
― JimD, Thursday, 2 October 2008 13:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh, I've been to gigs at B&H. It's a nice place, I dig the artfully distressed decor but gets way too crowded too quick when they have bands on.
You know, it's a good thing I don't go to pubs or bars based on the cuteness of the barstaff or else I'd have to end up drinking somewhere awful like The Legion!
― Kate of the Pier = MICROPROG (Masonic Boom), Thursday, 2 October 2008 13:35 (fifteen years ago) link
This sounds like a great idea to me.
― JimD, Thursday, 2 October 2008 13:35 (fifteen years ago) link
The Wheatsheaf is my favourite of the boozers round that Charlotte Street ad-agencyland bit. Country pub feel in the middle of London.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 2 October 2008 13:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Now I am lost on a raging sea of confusion!
― Local Garda, Thursday, 2 October 2008 13:36 (fifteen years ago) link
thirded
xpost
― Christopher Blix Hammer (Ed), Thursday, 2 October 2008 13:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Rising Sun by Smithfields is a good Sam Smiths pub round the Farringdon area.
― Neil S, Thursday, 2 October 2008 13:37 (fifteen years ago) link
Oooh this looks like a good one.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 2 October 2008 13:38 (fifteen years ago) link
The Gate is a horrible pub.
― Neil S, Thursday, 2 October 2008 13:39 (fifteen years ago) link
sam smiths pubs = goodsam smiths beer = piss and vinegar
can't believe we have gone over 100 posts without me mentioning this very important fact.
― Christopher Blix Hammer (Ed), Thursday, 2 October 2008 13:39 (fifteen years ago) link
The Intrepid Fox was WAY better when it used to be a grotty but very friendly lesbian bar.
― chap, Thursday, 2 October 2008 13:40 (fifteen years ago) link
Your discerning metallers go to Crobar these days. We almost got The Lex in there once, happy times.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 2 October 2008 13:41 (fifteen years ago) link
Argh, is the Crobar that awful place off Charing Cross Road where all the Terrorizer staff drink? Lex is totally right not to go in there!
― Kate of the Pier = MICROPROG (Masonic Boom), Thursday, 2 October 2008 13:43 (fifteen years ago) link
WORD
Oddly i was just about to revive a pub thread to find a boozer near the Shaftesbury Theatre (Hairspray's on) that serves food and is up-from-Surrey parent-friendly.
But on this showing, I think The Cross Keys might just fit the bill! Any more ideas?
― CharlieNo4, Thursday, 2 October 2008 13:48 (fifteen years ago) link
Agree re. bitter, but the lager and wheatbeer are both very good. Haven't tried the stout.
― Neil S, Thursday, 2 October 2008 13:50 (fifteen years ago) link
Cider not great. But beggars can't be etc.
― Tom D says "...get them fuckin' up here, ya fuckin' walloper!" (Tom D.), Thursday, 2 October 2008 13:52 (fifteen years ago) link
Their stout is not as good as Guinness but compares favourably to Caffrey's and Beamish.
I think you get more than you pay for. Which is pished for less than a tenner.
― ShNick (Upt0eleven), Thursday, 2 October 2008 13:53 (fifteen years ago) link
^ word
― Tom D says "...get them fuckin' up here, ya fuckin' walloper!" (Tom D.), Thursday, 2 October 2008 13:54 (fifteen years ago) link
You don't get a fat jolly German man in a box any more so the shark has been jumped as far as I'm concerned.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 2 October 2008 13:57 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm sure the Fitzroy still has a fat jolly German man in a box
― Tom D says "...get them fuckin' up here, ya fuckin' walloper!" (Tom D.), Thursday, 2 October 2008 13:58 (fifteen years ago) link
the lord hood in soho is best. just down the street from phonica. it's a sammy smiths pub, so drinks are cheap
― rio (r1o natsume), Thursday, 2 October 2008 14:00 (fifteen years ago) link
He's getting increasingly less jolly the longer they keep him there, though.
― chap, Thursday, 2 October 2008 14:01 (fifteen years ago) link
what is the smallest pub (NOT bar) in zone 1?
― Annoying Display Name (blueski), Thursday, 2 October 2008 14:02 (fifteen years ago) link
I'd like to say the mitre but I'm not sure how far it goes.
― Christopher Blix Hammer (Ed), Thursday, 2 October 2008 14:03 (fifteen years ago) link
My vote would be for the Jerusalem, as mentioned upthread. The Mitre has a fairly extensive upstairs area IIRC.
― Neil S, Thursday, 2 October 2008 14:03 (fifteen years ago) link
The Seven Stars is pretty tiny. The Nag's Head is miniscule as well.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 2 October 2008 14:06 (fifteen years ago) link
I have been to too many pubs.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 2 October 2008 14:08 (fifteen years ago) link
Coach & Horses in Mayfair looks fiendishly titchy: http://www.fancyapint.com/pubs/pub401.html
― Annoying Display Name (blueski), Thursday, 2 October 2008 14:08 (fifteen years ago) link
Not humanly possible.
― Tom D says "...get them fuckin' up here, ya fuckin' walloper!" (Tom D.), Thursday, 2 October 2008 14:09 (fifteen years ago) link
the lord hood is only coming up as a pub in greenwich, is it definitely called that? that'd suit as I know my friend knows where Phonica is!
― Local Garda, Thursday, 2 October 2008 14:09 (fifteen years ago) link
the answer may well be somewhere in the bad lands west of regent's street, lots of one room pubs over there.
― Christopher Blix Hammer (Ed), Thursday, 2 October 2008 14:09 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm going to the Shakespeare in Stoke Newington this evening :-) my favourite pub in everyone's favourite wanky middle class Hackney enclave!
― Neil S, Thursday, 2 October 2008 14:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Fucking expensive these days
― Tom D says "...get them fuckin' up here, ya fuckin' walloper!" (Tom D.), Thursday, 2 October 2008 14:11 (fifteen years ago) link
Borne and Hollingsworth is pretty darn small.
Lots of those "small pubs" (e.g. the Mitre) have upstairs areas which are bigger.
― MICROPROG (Masonic Boom), Thursday, 2 October 2008 14:11 (fifteen years ago) link
The Mayfair Coach & Horses isn't actually that small when you get in there.
I have been to the Lord Hood in Greenwich. It's like Phoenix Nights. They have a middle-aged peroxide female DJ called Barbara, and above the decks the word 'Barbara' scrolls across in red lighting with hearts on either side.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 2 October 2008 14:13 (fifteen years ago) link
the one up the road from phonica would be the star and garter or the john snow?
― Christopher Blix Hammer (Ed), Thursday, 2 October 2008 14:16 (fifteen years ago) link
I think Rio means the John Snow, not the Lord Hood. It's as good a place to meet as any. Lots of room, food, cheap beer. No music though.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 2 October 2008 14:17 (fifteen years ago) link
They have a middle-aged peroxide female DJ called Barbara, and above the decks the word 'Barbara' scrolls across in red lighting with hearts on either side.
shit...do you know if she's single?
― Local Garda, Thursday, 2 October 2008 14:17 (fifteen years ago) link