So the ladies tell me
― Tom D says "...get them fuckin' up here, ya fuckin' walloper!" (Tom D.), Thursday, 2 October 2008 15:07 (fifteen years ago) link
apart from the craic
― Annoying Display Name (blueski), Thursday, 2 October 2008 15:08 (fifteen years ago) link
Dublin pwns London for small pubs.
small pubs where beer is twice the fucking price...
― Local Garda, Thursday, 2 October 2008 15:14 (fifteen years ago) link
terrible dear so they are!
― Neil S, Thursday, 2 October 2008 15:15 (fifteen years ago) link
mercy!
― Annoying Display Name (blueski), Thursday, 2 October 2008 15:15 (fifteen years ago) link
Next time I'm in Dublin I must go into their Tesco's and ask for a jar of mussels and some potted herrings in case I get famished before dinner.
― It's 10.00 and I'm Huw Edwards. I don't write this stuff. (Marcello Carlin), Thursday, 2 October 2008 15:16 (fifteen years ago) link
a holy show!
― Local Garda, Thursday, 2 October 2008 15:19 (fifteen years ago) link
will ye be having a mussel now lad
― ILX Systern (ken c), Thursday, 2 October 2008 15:32 (fifteen years ago) link
Didn't The Rake by Borough Market make a load of noise about being the smallest pub in London recently? That's in zone 1.
― Tim, Thursday, 2 October 2008 15:36 (fifteen years ago) link
they did but they are so small we could not hear their noise
― Annoying Display Name (blueski), Thursday, 2 October 2008 15:39 (fifteen years ago) link
Anyone know a pub in the Euston area with a pool table?
Or in Soho?
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 4 June 2009 11:38 (fifteen years ago) link
ken c's yer man for pub pool info
― Dante ... Bruno . Vico .. Passantino (Tom D.), Thursday, 4 June 2009 11:42 (fifteen years ago) link
The Nellie Dean on Dean Street has a pool table. Can't think of anywhere in Euston but the pub options around there are mostly grim anyway.
― Tits Bramble (Matt DC), Thursday, 4 June 2009 11:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah didn't have high hopes for Euston, got friend down from the north who's staying around there so was trying to make it convenient for him but never mind.
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 4 June 2009 11:48 (fifteen years ago) link
Nellie Dean is a possibility though, thanks Matt.
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 4 June 2009 11:52 (fifteen years ago) link
I thought that place across from the British Library has a pool table or two?
― scott seaward (G00blar), Thursday, 4 June 2009 12:53 (fifteen years ago) link
Ah yes, the Rocket, corner of Euston and Charlton Street is pretty awful, but does have two pool tables.
― scott seaward (G00blar), Thursday, 4 June 2009 12:59 (fifteen years ago) link
Pleasant London pubs with pool tables are a rapidly dying breed.
― chap, Thursday, 4 June 2009 13:11 (fifteen years ago) link
DUKE OF YORK on Clerkenwell Road has table football and a pool table.
The Rocket is where the British Library staffers drink, and it's the best bet of a bad bunch. Or at least looks like a pub people would be happy with, albeit in a bad area for them. There is a gastro on Chalton Street too.
― 502 Bad Gateway (suzy), Thursday, 4 June 2009 13:13 (fifteen years ago) link
Any of the pubs in sommerstown or around Drummond st have pool?
― Prince of Persia (Ed), Thursday, 4 June 2009 13:14 (fifteen years ago) link
The Rocket is in that area. I have imbibed there with BL pals and like it. OTOH I imagine every estate pub in Somers Town has pool or darts.
― 502 Bad Gateway (suzy), Thursday, 4 June 2009 13:23 (fifteen years ago) link
If you're going to go over to Clerkenwell then you're better off in the King's Arms than the Duke of York due to it having a jukebox and dartboard in the same games room as the pool table/table football.
And if you're lucky you might see Boris Johnson up there attempting to seduce a woman who is not his wife.
― Tits Bramble (Matt DC), Thursday, 4 June 2009 14:09 (fifteen years ago) link
King's Arms does good Thai food too.
― Achtung Blobby (Neil S), Thursday, 4 June 2009 14:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Looks like we're going for the Soho option, but thanks for suggestions, I will attempt to remember that Euston place for future reference...
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 4 June 2009 15:38 (fifteen years ago) link
good pre-gig drinking establishment in angel / kings cross area...?
― Crackle Box, Thursday, 18 November 2010 15:26 (thirteen years ago) link
lexington (mostly american beers and whiskeys but still a pub vibe)/agricultural (fairly old skool boozer)/angelic (fairly new skool boozer, large but crowded) ...
― xtc ep, etc (xp) (ledge), Thursday, 18 November 2010 15:32 (thirteen years ago) link
ja i'm taking a girl on a date and she just played at the lex last weekend i want to surprise her with somewhere nice / new
looking for good food, good drinks...
or somewhere with a pool table.
― Crackle Box, Thursday, 18 November 2010 15:35 (thirteen years ago) link
ideal would be good pizza + lots of good european lagers type place
― Crackle Box, Thursday, 18 November 2010 15:37 (thirteen years ago) link
try The Regent on Liverpool Rd
― Noel 1 Silence 0 (blueski), Thursday, 18 November 2010 15:41 (thirteen years ago) link
good call, that place does excellent pizza
― Neil S, Thursday, 18 November 2010 15:43 (thirteen years ago) link
oi London ilxorz
anybody know anything aboutTHE FIGHTING COCKSOld London RoadKingston-upon-Thames, London
i.e. what neighborhood/part of London is that?
(I'm speaking at the black metal theory symposium which is being held there in Jan, and I gotta decide if I want to stay at a hotel in the area- but before that, I was wondering if y'all have a bead on where this is at)
― the tune is space, Thursday, 18 November 2010 15:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Kingston is pretty far out south west (barely) London so if you stay out there it might be cheap but probably quite dull with it
― Noel 1 Silence 0 (blueski), Thursday, 18 November 2010 15:47 (thirteen years ago) link
about 30 mins in to town by train, on the river, pretty, posh.
― xtc ep, etc (xp) (ledge), Thursday, 18 November 2010 15:49 (thirteen years ago) link
oh, okay, def. not going to stay there then!thanks for the warning; gimme central anytime
is it like Zone 5 or 6 or summat?
― the tune is space, Thursday, 18 November 2010 15:54 (thirteen years ago) link
zone 6 yeah
― xtc ep, etc (xp) (ledge), Thursday, 18 November 2010 15:55 (thirteen years ago) link
xps
cosign on all the above, except maybe 'posh' - is it not one of those Jekyll/Hyde places that's money & pushchairs by day, rough-as at night?
Zone 6, overland only I think.
― portrait of velleity (woof), Thursday, 18 November 2010 15:57 (thirteen years ago) link
how late do tubes run at night? (sorry dumb tourist here)I'm thinking a cab from zone 6 to the center = ouch
― the tune is space, Thursday, 18 November 2010 16:00 (thirteen years ago) link
overland only, last train 23.49 apparently.
― xtc ep, etc (xp) (ledge), Thursday, 18 November 2010 16:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Last train from Kingston looks to be a bit before midnight (11.49). That's overground: tube carries on a little later centrally, but won't help you much, because the nearest stations (Richmond, Wimbledon?) aren't very near, and since they're at the end of a line, send their last trains into the centre about midnight.
The N77 night bus would get you back.
― portrait of velleity (woof), Thursday, 18 November 2010 16:14 (thirteen years ago) link
(xp)
thanks people for the advice and handholding, next i'll be asking how much it costs to get on the London Eye or something
nightbus it is, because I think this pub-conference-whatever-thing ends with a band playing and it's going to go superlate
― the tune is space, Thursday, 18 November 2010 16:17 (thirteen years ago) link
― Crackle Box, Thursday, 18 November 2010 07:26
http://www.thecharleslambpub.com/
it might possibly be a bit better in summer when you can sit outside but should fit bill
― cherry blossom, Thursday, 18 November 2010 16:18 (thirteen years ago) link
thanks!
― Crackle Box, Thursday, 18 November 2010 16:31 (thirteen years ago) link
so, not the john snow, ever again, then: http://twitter.com/jpw84/status/58302645491859456
― lex pretend, Thursday, 14 April 2011 09:57 (thirteen years ago) link
tf
― kl0ppa kl0ppa down (tpp), Thursday, 14 April 2011 10:10 (thirteen years ago) link
John Snow isn't actually that good anyway so no great loss.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 14 April 2011 10:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Incurring the wrath of gay people is probably not the way to run a pub in Soho, mind.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 14 April 2011 10:27 (thirteen years ago) link
jesus that's weird.
― Will.Have.Known (Local Garda), Thursday, 14 April 2011 11:52 (thirteen years ago) link
WTF.
TBH I hate that place anyway
― a fucking stove just fell on my foot. (Colonel Poo), Thursday, 14 April 2011 12:49 (thirteen years ago) link
full story - http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/14/gay-claim-ejected-pub-kissing
it was pretty cool to see how twitter not only gave the story legs, but actually put those witnesses in touch with the couple, having not known them previously
― lex pretend, Thursday, 14 April 2011 13:03 (thirteen years ago) link