Potemkin Bar

Potemkin sits perfectly in Farringdon surrounded by ex-warehouses, manufacturing units and blocks that have not been updated since the 1930’s. Approaching the bar it has a mirrored exterior and looks in a little disrepair, in fact I wasn’t even sure if it was open. Heading inside, things aren’t much better, its 8pm on a [...]

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Ye Olde Mitre Pub

I raise my hand and admit I had to be led to this pub. It is sandwiched between a church and high rise modern buildings, claiming to be a five hundred year old tavern and every sense of the place supports this claim. The Ye Olde Mitre has a collection of black [...]

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The Three Compasses Pub

Just a hop skip and a jump from Farringdon tube station is the strangely named Three compasses pub. One would wonder why on earth such a new age pub has such an old style name with no obvious reference inside as to its orgins but I guess the name is lost on me. Inside [...]

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The Priory Bar

When modern gastro meets industrial pipework in the back streets of trendy-as-you-like Farringdon. It becomes obvious why the venue is filled with beautiful and wealthy people. The building is quite well hidden off of a couple of more prestigious factory style offices near clerkenwell road and yet in its own courtyard set back [...]

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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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