Argyll Arms - Argyll Street near Oxford Circus, amazing Victorian interior
Ship and Shovell - Craven Passage (Ooh er) near Charing Cross, split between two buildings either side of said passage.
I was in the Freemasons arms in Long Acre at the weekend, another decent pub, where they drew up the first laws of football in 1863. That set of laws didn’t include VAR, so they deserve your support.
As I like a drop of Fullers, I’d throw in the Admiralty on Trafalgar Square, also the much older Lamb and Flag in Rose Street Covent Garden (difficult to find, but worth the effort).
Argyll Arms £25 for 2 white wines (can’t recall if medium or large). Actually it was the night I saw you across the road in The Palladium.
Who was he staring as.
I was just Pretending, but there were four better ones on the stage......
Argyll Arms - Argyll Street near Oxford Circus, amazing Victorian interior
Ship and Shovell - Craven Passage (Ooh er) near Charing Cross, split between two buildings either side of said passage.
I was in the Freemasons arms in Long Acre at the weekend, another decent pub, where they drew up the first laws of football in 1863. That set of laws didn’t include VAR, so they deserve your support.
As I like a drop of Fullers, I’d throw in the Admiralty on Trafalgar Square, also the much older Lamb and Flag in Rose Street Covent Garden (difficult to find, but worth the effort).
Argyll Arms £25 for 2 white wines (can’t recall if medium or large). Actually it was the night I saw you across the road in The Palladium.
Not sure it's been mentioned but does anyone know what that pub in central area which has a bar in a circle with several private drinking areas separated by marble glass and small wooden doors that you have to duck through.
The Princess Louise, mentioned above, when it was refurbed it had a circular bar split by glass partitions not sure about the wooden doors though, not been there in quite a few years.
Here's a photo not sure how old it is and whether the pub is still like it.
Yeah must be that. They had small doors linking the bars together. Why did they change it?
Has to be 'Dirty Dicks' opposite Liverpool St station. Loads of history, (look it up) and still the same. Also serves Winter Warmer from November to end of March.
The Harp opposite Charing Cross nick was my favourite. Tiny but serves some cracking beer and when you sit upstairs it’s like being at your Granny’s (well it used to be…..it’s over 10yrs since I was there 😞).
You'll be pleased to know it's the same as it ever was, 'littlesis. The Harp is my first port of call when I'm at Charing Cross, and one of the two of my favourite pubs up West. Fullers bought the pub from the lovely old Irish landlady who had run it for decades, and they had the good sense to change nothing, save the the Gents which was in dire need of a refit. Superbly kept beer, and barstaff who know how to pour two rounds at once; it can be three deep at the bar and you'll never wait more than five minutes to be served.
I've been going to The French House for over 40 years and it rarely disappoints, although I now find lunchtime a better experience than evenings when it's invariably crushingly busy. They also do fabulous calves' brains upstairs in the small restaurant.
I would highly recommend him looking up Paul Talling of "Derelict London" and seeing if he is doing one of his walks whilst your mate is over. Music Venues and Pubs are a big speciality of his, amongst other things. Not London but I sadly had to admit to Paul that even though I have spent much of my life in Beckenham I was not aware of the Mistrale Club and the quality of performers that had played there.
The blackfriar is one people get fizzy in the gusset about but it falls into the same category a lot of London pubs do (and none of this is a negative) cramped, small toilets down flights of stairs, most people move outdoors to get some space and air. The blind beggar if thats your thing. The Wheatsheaf in Borough Market and the Mudlark just underneath there are two I like.
I work next door to the Cheshire Cheese so the Blackfriar is close. Not sure why people like it so much, it’s fine, but that’s about all.
The Anchor Bankside. Our hockey mates used to meet there for birthdays. A beer I remember was Youngers No 1. Lethal.
The Prospect of Whitby rings a bell Bob. I seem to remember that was the pub where the landlady existed solely on Guinness, maybe a ploy for punters to buy her as many drinks as she could handle. This is a memory from the late fifties early sixties. Long before your time.
Tell you what Prague, after the nonsense of you being provided with 128 different public transport routes from Eltham to Charlton only for you to get a bleeding parking permit, your man better visit these bloody pubs.
Having nightmares already of him just texting you back post-trip ‘Wetherspoons’
Dirty Dicks opposite Liverpool St station. Lots of old fashioned charm imho.
Old Dr Butlers Head, just off Colman street, Moorgate. Had a decent upstairs dining room a while back.
I always thought that place was a total dive and hadn’t been in for ages. Went in for a pint on the way back from Southend the other week and it was actually pretty decent with good beer.
Tell you what Prague, after the nonsense of you being provided with 128 different public transport routes from Eltham to Charlton only for you to get a bleeding parking permit, your man better visit these bloody pubs.
Having nightmares already of him just texting you back post-trip ‘Wetherspoons’
If it's Spoons he wants, I can recommend The Liberty Bounds and The Crosse Keys. The Sir John Oldcastle is OK, though it doesn't have the classic architecture. Can't remember much about Pendrels Oak other than it was crowded and I came out battered. The Sir John Hawkshaw, might be convenient if he's staying in SE London, though it does have an atmosphere borrowed directly from Cannon Street Station. I used to really like The Knights Templar but it's been taken over by another company and rebranded The Last Judgement. I can't pass judgement as I've not been in the new version. I was thinking of The Old Bank of England too, but apparently that never was a Spoons; it just looks like it should be.
I've worked near The Blackfriar for the last 8-10 years and find it one of the dullest, darkest, most uninspiring pubs I can remember going in.
Sure, the interior is different, if you're into pictures of monks doing fuck knows what. It can be impossible to get served and the staff are generally incompetent. On the plus side, there's space to stand outside because they never rebuilt the building on the corner after it got flattened in the Blitz. The only positive.
On the plus side - lots of great pubs named here. I would add in my vote for the Lamb (Lambs Conduit Street) the Dove (Hammersmith) The Harp (Charing X) and also chuck in the Lord Clyde (Borough) , which I can't see has been mentioned yet.
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Serious beers in there!
You'll be pleased to know it's the same as it ever was, 'littlesis. The Harp is my first port of call when I'm at Charing Cross, and one of the two of my favourite pubs up West.
Fullers bought the pub from the lovely old Irish landlady who had run it for decades, and they had the good sense to change nothing, save the the Gents which was in dire need of a refit.
Superbly kept beer, and barstaff who know how to pour two rounds at once; it can be three deep at the bar and you'll never wait more than five minutes to be served.
I've been going to The French House for over 40 years and it rarely disappoints, although I now find lunchtime a better experience than evenings when it's invariably crushingly busy.
They also do fabulous calves' brains upstairs in the small restaurant.
The Lamb in Lambs Conduit Street. Not only a unique interior but was frequented by Dickens and the Dickens Museum is close by.
George Orwell was a regular in the Dog and Duck in Soho and there are pictures and memorabilia inside.
The Wheatsheaf was one of a number of pubs in Fitzrovia frequented by Dylan Thomas.
All goood pubs with decent beer.
The Cheshire Cheese and the George have already been mentioned.
Not London but I sadly had to admit to Paul that even though I have spent much of my life in Beckenham I was not aware of the Mistrale Club and the quality of performers that had played there.
Is where Dylan played his first gig outside of the US (in December 62). There were more people there than the 7 6 game.
It does have a stunning interior.
The Prospect of Whitby rings a bell Bob. I seem to remember that was the pub where the landlady existed solely on Guinness, maybe a ploy for punters to buy her as many drinks as she could handle. This is a memory from the late fifties early sixties. Long before your time.
The Harp. Charing Cross
The Marquis. Charing Cross
Ship and Shovel. Charing Cross
All good beer.
I've worked near The Blackfriar for the last 8-10 years and find it one of the dullest, darkest, most uninspiring pubs I can remember going in.
Sure, the interior is different, if you're into pictures of monks doing fuck knows what. It can be impossible to get served and the staff are generally incompetent. On the plus side, there's space to stand outside because they never rebuilt the building on the corner after it got flattened in the Blitz. The only positive.
On the plus side - lots of great pubs named here. I would add in my vote for the Lamb (Lambs Conduit Street) the Dove (Hammersmith) The Harp (Charing X) and also chuck in the Lord Clyde (Borough) , which I can't see has been mentioned yet.