The Porcupine

Looking for any special except a local pub we stumbled upon this one next to Leicester square station. Its not strictly Soho or Covent Garden but squeezed in the middle. You enter into a fairly small pub with a bar at the end and tables and bar stools scattered about to find a staircase to the left of the bar leading up to the “Theatre Bar” whatever that is? Still we headed up the stairs to find a table and came across a smaller bar still but not overcrowded and therefore with available seats at 10pm on a Friday night. The bar was not expensive however, served by some foreign woman that couldn’t speak a world of English we received two pints and a glass of OJ for a cool fiver, and although the steps back downstairs were impossibly tight and the clientele were all over the age of 35 it wasn’t a half bad break from the bustling bars down the road.

Overall a 5/10, the oasis of an empty bench at a rock festival.

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