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Iconic London pubs- your recommendations please
PragueAddick
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A quite well-known Czech - German cultural figure (writer, musician, all round good bloke) called Jaroslav Rudiš is coming to London in March. He’s preparing his own personal Beer guide ( i am not sure of the format but it may well be, iconic pubs you must visit if you are visiting the city). He has asked us ( his UK publisher, who lives in Lee but regretably supports the Hamsters, and I) for recommendations. The brief would be that the pub has a history generally but he is especially interested in those with a strong link to literature, music (modern music very much included) or…the railway😉. Mike already mentioned the Ship and Shovel near Charing X as an example. Actually good beer would be nice too.
I’m sure one or two people will have some suggestions… Thanks!
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The Blind Beggar, Whitechapel?
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The Cheshire Cheese in Fleet St7
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The Chandos on St Martins Lane.
The Beehive in Brixton.0 -
The Marquis Charing Cross.4
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A small but lovely pub/venue = The Slaughtered Lamb, 34-35 Great Sutton St - great musical history (just saw Tommy Scott of Space there)1
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The Prospect of Whitby, WappingThe Spaniard's Inn Hampstead has a lot of literature links2
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The Dublin Castle, so many bands Madness, Blur, Billy Bragg, Arctics, Amy Winehouse
The Old George Inn
Ye Olde Mitre, Holborn
The Blackfriar
The Grapes, Ian McKellen’s pub in Limehouse
The Jamaica Inn, first coffee house in London.
Ye Olde Watling, Bow Lane. Built by Christopher Wren3 -
The Seven Stars, Carey Street WC2A
The Ship Tavern, Gate Street, WC2A
Ye Olde Mitre, Ely Court, EC1N
The Viaduct Tavern, Newgate Street, EC1A
The Old Thameside Inn, Pickfords Wharf, SE1
Market Porter, Stoney Street, SE12 -
Ye Old Mitre in an alley way just off Ely Place in Holborn0
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So, good few mentions for Ye Olde Mitre so far 😉👍🏻2
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The Mayflower, Rotherhithe4
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The Tipperary in Fleet Street, the oldest Irish pub outside Ireland.
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The Millers16
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For railway history
The Metropolitan spoons by Baker Street has a lovely interior, and a strong railway connection as a former restaurant for the Metropolitan Railway.
The Euston Tap, located in one of the original gatehouses outside Euston station.0 -
The Cockpit EC4V0
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The Griffin plays music while the bird gets her growler out.8
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Fantastic, everyone, thanks so much.0
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The Blue Anchor, Hammersmith
18th century riverside Inn
used for many filming locations.0 -
The Dove……also in Hammersmith.0
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Didn’t know C Wren built the Watling!TelMc32 said:The Dublin Castle, so many bands Madness, Blur, Billy Bragg, Arctics, Amy Winehouse
The Old George Inn
Ye Olde Mitre, Holborn
The Blackfriar
The Grapes, Ian McKellen’s pub in Limehouse
The Jamaica Inn, first coffee house in London.
Ye Olde Watling, Bow Lane. Built by Christopher Wren0 - Sponsored links:
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The Ring, Southwark4
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CAMRA's National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors is probably worth a look. Also, I can recommend Tweedy Pubs on YouTube. He is very knowledgeable about the history, architecture (and beer) of London pubs. He is also interesting to listen to.0
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The Amersham arms and New Cross Inn both in New Cross (New Cross station end rather than New Cross Gate), and both live music venues.1
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The Metropolitan has a great Art Deco interior. Even the men's toilets are worth a look for great Art Deco features (assuming you are male)!killerandflash said:For railway history
The Metropolitan spoons by Baker Street has a lovely interior, and a strong railway connection as a former restaurant for the Metropolitan Railway.
The Euston Tap, located in one of the original gatehouses outside Euston station.1 -
It may have changed, but the last time I was in there (in fact, every time I've been in there) it was an absolute shit hole - then again, perhaps that's part of the appeal.JohnBoyUK said:The Blind Beggar, Whitechapel?
The biggest disappointment for me, is that you can't get a bottle of Mann's Brown in there. Given that it was developed on the same site, it shows the sort of disregard for the history and culture of brewing that would deservedly rule them out of any Beer Guide. As far as I can see, it trades solely now on the Cornell story, which is just about as good a reason to give it a swerve as I can think of.5 -
The good mixer, Camden(lots of musical connections)
Hawley arms (music and real life location of baby reindeer ‘story’).1 -
The Churchill Arms Kensington1
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That’s the story. Built in 1668 after the great fire and built by Wren to house workers on a little cathedral he was doing, just up the road.Boom said:
Didn’t know C Wren built the Watling!TelMc32 said:The Dublin Castle, so many bands Madness, Blur, Billy Bragg, Arctics, Amy Winehouse
The Old George Inn
Ye Olde Mitre, Holborn
The Blackfriar
The Grapes, Ian McKellen’s pub in Limehouse
The Jamaica Inn, first coffee house in London.
Ye Olde Watling, Bow Lane. Built by Christopher Wren2 -
Same owner has Mc & Sons just along the road towards London Bridge. Great music nights, if you like good Irish trad.Radostanradical said:The Ring, Southwark1 -
The Kings Arms in the perfectly preserved Roupell Street SE1. Adjacent to Waterloo East Station downside.7
