The Printer’s Devil

Mar 2008 - The Printers Devil has now closed down

If pubs could easily be segregated into types in the way that maovies are classed by genre then the Printers Devil sits in the “Black Comedy” section. Downstairs a dark and gothic feel with the mannerisms of a typical pub. The barman, friendlier than […]

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Sir John Oldcastle

This wetherspoons is a large floorspace with a pub on top, its windows peering onto all sides of the street, ebing perched on a corner and it plays host to a bustling but not overcrowded community foundation for the area. The bar service is fast but after finding a bottle cap at the […]

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The Duke of York

A loud, male dominated pub with enough atmosphere and lively intent as to bowl over anyone that comes through its doors. This pub, situated on a relatively quiet corner of Clerkenwell road opens with a hall-like room with a letterbox-style bar (you have to stoop down to get served, although there is […]

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The Jerusalem Tavern

A fundamentally quaint and powerful ancient pub is this. The Jerusalem tavern presents very very old inn furnishings, interior and bar, even the drinks are from a local brewery and bottle beers are presented in containers you would expect to see in an 18th century apothecary. The bar staff, though unfriendly are firm […]

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The Tipperary

The Tipperary, like most pubs in Fleet street is long and thin but don’t be deterred because the shape of a coffin, despite the fact that the bar (full length of the pub) fully takes up 50% of the width of it, this basically means that anyone sporting a large belly will have problems with navigation […]

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The Griffin Strip Club

From the road this looks like any other pub, except of course that the windows are blacked out and it looks rather ghostly and rather than an open door there is a heavy closed one which serves to repel any curious individuals. Once inside the door there are no heavy bouncers but […]

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Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese

With a name like this you do stop and wonder what on earth could be the attraction to a name which sounds more like a 1940’s North Western Cheddar Factory than one of the oldest surviving taverns in the City of London. This pub is a very ancient network of old medieval […]

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The Hope

A very small pub beside Fabric nightclub with a traditional fell but with almost as few people inside as there are tables. So that’s about six small locations to place your pint and I’ve ever much been a fan of laying my drink at the nose of another punter. Immediately on the left of […]

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Smiths of Smithfield

A warehouse-style bar next to Fabric in Farringdon by one of the more eccentric names on the Bar circuit. Smiths of Smithfield is a very large old disused manufactoring warehouse which throws elements of dining, raving and drinking into an infused evening not bettered by many establishments around. The music on the ground […]

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The Punch Tavern

The hundredth time I walked past this pub I realised it was even there. A well hidden tavern situated in one of the busiest areas of London yet inside it houses oldy-worldy illusions of times past when children would watch the Punch and Judy puppet show. And this seems to be the theme […]

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