The Bloomsbury Tavern

Standing quite lonely on the corner of Shaftesbury avenue this pub looks like it has really seen the times. Both interior and exterior have been well maintained in an effect that comes off as old, historic and listed. There are one or two tables outside which do make for some nice alfresco drinking (few pubs in the area offer the same thing) and within you can find a small selection of well mannered older male drinkers sitting among the wooden support beams, finely varnished and kept. The drinks are of average price and the place is pretty small, it doesn’t even seem to get over crowded during rush hour or at the weekends so its a pretty good place to go for a nice relaxing after work beverage without the hammer thundering of crowds of suited executives waving umbrellas and sharing jokes about over-sized accounts.

Overall quite, civilised and a little too easy to walk past, quite a good example of an old London pub left quite in the corner of the modern era - 5/10