The Dublin Castle

Dublin Castle is  clearly a well established rock venue for underground noises, leather dressed individuals and persons interested in the curious art of tie-dying. The venue is a small but airy room with a bar at the front end served by a busy bar woman with little taste for a smile. The drinks [...]

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The Earl of Camden

Apparently this pub was a Hogs Head at one point and you can tell that the interior is that of a chain pub despite the fact that it may have broken away from that chain more recently. The pub is based on a large lower level with a platform up to the [...]

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The Back of Beyond(Wetherspoons)
This large Wetherspoons provides an array of doors as a front entrance to open out onto the less-than-clean streets of reading at night but in the winter provides safe shelter and warm couches by the window with a hearty ale. The layout of the venue is set into 3 basic columns of [...]

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O Neil’s

This pub is tucked beside all the other reading establishments in a row of brand-name bars and drunken louts scouring the streets for innocent females as prey. This particular place is at the end of that row and eager to attract the young yet only pulling the old. Its overcrowded on one floor with [...]

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The Torch

The Torch in Wembley park is in an excellent location to receive swamp-loads of persons from the neighbouring Wembley stadium in all of its glory and within arms reach of the tube. The pub is situated on a busy corner of the central roads in Wembley and attracts people in fair numbers. The [...]

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The Blue Anchor

Summarising this pub is not hard: Very quiet outside, colourful inside, okay so maybe I can say a bit more about this veritable icon of history in the plume of London’s darkest alleyways. The pub is on two floors, it has a warm friendly atmosphere, its not overcrowded at lunchtime and theres light [...]

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The Magpie
With excellent promixity to the giant of train stations liverpool street, the Magpie sits out on a lonly branch of the high street, difficult to spot from the bustle and once inside it feels somewhat small and somewhat disappointing. The lower floor is simply bar, stools, bar persons. Along the left of the bar [...]

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The Horseshoe

The Horseshoe is a pub situated in a very quiet part of Farringdon. From outside you have you really squint from afar to see there is indeed a pub tucked away here. Inside it is larger than it looks in this hidden cove of a place. The bar serves up a good ale on [...]

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The George

A tudor style- average sized pub with the usual amentities - fruit machines, blackboards details drinks details and the food that is available and several TV’s broadcasting sport when popular fixtures are on. Coming inside, the customer faces the bar directly where the queue relatively short but serving times are a little slow. The [...]

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Ye Olde Greene Manne
A small, quaint country pub in Hertfordshire equipped with an old-style stone driveway and a large well primed garden. The place is difficult to get to without a car, in fact close to impossible with buses running infrequently and no other transport links for miles. This is the appeal of the place, [...]

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