recommend a good pub in central London........

i love the pembury! but it's bloody useless if don't live nearby and you're tied to decent frequent weekend public transport, as are all the people i'm meeting.

...if you you't live nearby...

ARGH

good place to watch a match? thinking soho area would be best as ever...but none of the usual pubs I use there show football

i and friends watched the 2006 world cup final in Rupert Street

(yes, the gay bar)

that's a nice anecdote but unfortunately does not solve my problem

i just bought a tin of anchovies and some potato salad.

oh! you just reminded me of this really neat place, the Anchovy & Potato

can't quite remember where it is tho

the old coffee house on (i think) beak street is good. does get a bit rammed though.

HI DERE.

http://www.fancyapint.com/pubs/pub148.html

It's not Soho but it is very central and has the advantage of loads of screens in visible parts of the pub. Bit concrete and estate pubby but I think that puts off the huge throngs you get in other football pubs.

Failing that:

http://www.fancyapint.com/pubs/pub304.html

One big screen, two smaller screens.

I would avoid the Old Coffee House, a bit too busy in my opinion.

what about The Sun on Long Acre? have only watched a game in there once before tho

Not central but what do people make of the newly opened Job Centre in Deptford?
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/09/job-centre-bar-gentrification-ironically-deptford

is there a general london pub thread lads

scum of the earth tbh, i hope they go under

has the bonneville closed yet?

Apparently its alright because other pubs are named after what they used to house

https://twitter.com/TheJobCentrePub/status/477494336368553985

the blurb on their website is like a self-parody

eclectic, vintage, quirky, vinyl

It's like something from a Harry Enfield sketch a quarter of a century ago.

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revive! Can anyone recommend a decent regular or gastro-pub in the vicinity of the Tower of London? I suppose there will be a load of generic City Friday night boozers around there, but anywhere a bit better than that would be good...

I'd cross back over Tower Bridge, head for something on Tower Bridge Road or Shad Thames - the Dean Swift, maybe? But I don't know that stretch of Bermondsey too well now.

Yeah cross over Tower Bridge and head to Bermondsey Street. The Garrison is good, leaning heavily to the gastro side but good food and a nice atmosphere.

I've never actually been to a pub close to the actual Tower but I'm assuming it's all vertical City drinking and Great British Tourist Traps.

thanks guys, the Garrison looks very good.

dean swift is nice but kinda far away from the tower, even a few minutes after you get over the bridge. there is a draft house immediately over the bridge - functional, good beer, a bit devoid of soul maybe.

is the garrison the one with the kind of green astro turf in the backyard? that's a nice pub if so. i like it a lot around bermondsey street though i find the people who hang out there kind of braying/posh.

Dean Swift is ace and is really not that far from the steps down to Shad Thames from Tower Bridge. Lafone Street is about 5 cobble-streeted minutes' walk from the steps - I lived there in a garden flat during my first summer in London.

is the garrison the one with the kind of green astro turf in the backyard?

I think that's the Woolpack over the road, which can be okay but can also be hellish, especially on busy nights. Garrison is more laid-back, booking recommended especially if you'll be eating.

ah right - is the garrison like extremely gastro, more a restaurant? i may have eaten there recently enough.

anyone got any pub or bar recommendations around the New Cross Overground station area? Nothing fancy just not awful if possible!

Think I'd head for Beer Rebellion at Queens Road Peckham - 15 minutes' walk away or one Overground stop.

cheers! Ended up at the Royal Albert on New Cross Rd, a perfectly serviceable Antic pub.

That would have been my recommendation as well. I have a soft spot for the Marquis of Granby as well but I can see that's not for everyone.

the Marquis looks a bit more rough and ready right? Antic pubs are ten a penny these days but they do have the considerable virtue of serving good beer well

The Albert is probably the best of all of them, mind. Helps that it opens late and was actually a pub before they took it on, so it has the right look and feel.