The Speaker

More like a lunchtime sandwich shop than a pub. This place is very small -simply a long bar accompanied by a couple of tables. There appears to be a deli counter built into the bar itself giving you a sad view of some rather grim cheeses while you tuck in your £2.90 stout. At least [...]

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Sherlock Holmes

Slightly set back from the strand this humble little pub drags tourists in like a magnet from the hit series ‘Lost’ and then tears the cash from their wallets like post-it-notes. This place, as humble looking as it is, is in fact overrun with elderly tourists en-route to goodness knows where. Outside there are [...]

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Bag O Nails Bar

Standing outside it looks rather like a plastic conservatory stuck up to hold only against the slightest wind and to just serve as a shelter for those youth that would rather drown there sorrows and pocket change than save it up for a decent night out closer to the middle of town. [...]

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The White Horse and Bower

This venue looks small from the outside and within is just that- okay a bit longer than it looks from outside but that’s about all. It has a silly bottleneck up the front of the pub making it difficult to squeeze past the bar to reach the seating at the back. [...]

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The Two Chairmen

Just out of sight of old nelsons column is a corner pub just set back enough from the busy high street of pall mall to be as quiet as hell.. It is a very small pub on entry with additional seating upstairs but this is dead. The only clientele look to be a [...]

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The Crown

A squalor of a shadow of the most alternative pub in Holborn and probably also the smallest. This tiny corner pub boasts beer at £3 a pint and no room whatsoever to sit or stand. With about three tables and fifty people this place gets crowded quickly. Sure the music is great, very rocky [...]

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Garibaldi

Or should that be “Going-Baldy”, at this place you get the balding men with the piercing eyes as you enter and collect you overly expensive pint. You sniffle in the corner under the watchful eyes and they hurt you with there gaze at every sip, that’s before you notice that the pile of dog-hair on [...]

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The Iron Duke

Does what it says on the tin, a no frills pub for the crowds of travellers that pour through its doors, its all attitude and no character. They have tried to polish off the style of a classic pub but fail, instead producing an ornate lounge of alcoholics and businessmen tongue-locked with their [...]

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The Wetherspoons

Overcrowded and smokey this jam packed bar is situated elevated above Victoria Station and draws in travellers like a magnet. Inside you find no seats but backpackers majestically propped on suitcases and seventy people screaming at the bar staff to get them drinks. The place winds to the right as you go in to [...]

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La Chandelle
Keeping a keen eye out for Pubs and Bars in the early evening of one single Friday in Leicester square in London, my colleague and I happened to see the glaze of bottles at a bar in what appeared to be a Cafe. Assured by what we had seen through the clear windows we [...]

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