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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Balls Brothers

A traditional pub sign above a doorway and downward steps into a basement wine bar - the name “Balls Brothers” tells you nothing about what’s inside. Instead of some comedy-toilet-humour-gay venue we find a very traditional wine bar, with well stocked bar, expensive drinks and a maze of interconnecting rooms and low-ceiling hallways [...]

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Gantons Wine Bar

Seeing what looks like a red version of a small Yates bar I head in this direction with my mate Alex and undeterred by the “wine bar” sign, I make my way into want can only be described and a “trendy, up-beat, party bar”. It was a friendly venue with bright lights in [...]

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The Hope and Anchor
Situated on the rounded stump that is the corner of Mornington Crescent, this traditional pub sits relatively unsupervised by other venues as most of the fame is stolen by the infamous KOKO or delightful Purple Turtle but this pub stands to merit in a bath of its own character and charm. With [...]

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The Seven Stars

A small fragile wooden abode set on a high street parallell to high holborn sports is otherwise known as the Seven Stars. the first impression is its age and tiny features such as narrow staircase, lift for the bar and compact 17th century stove. The place offers a wide room the length of [...]

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Shakespeare’s Head

An olde Inn cast into the relative spotlight of Carnaby street - top end nearest the Palladium theatre. This pub has a ground floor of a few small sly tables with two small entrances and a bar to the right should you enter of the high street. The place has a welcome vigour but [...]

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Underbelly

Adjoining the Zigfrid bar above ground, this door and a set of stairs leads you into the pit of dance that is the underbelly. The place costs £2 on the door on a Saturday and actually proves to be a very quiet venue once inside- its essentially a large staircase landing on a dance area [...]

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Bar Polski

This has not been the best decorated bar by a long shot and gets very busy very early in the evening. It is a bar hidden behind Holborn station in an alley opposite the ship tavern and is a picture of wide glass front with shallow interior, high bar stools at even higher tables [...]

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The Devonshire Arms

A vampiric abode indeed!! This is claimed to be THE Goth pub of London attracting the most outrageous characters from all over the world to indulge in an atmosphere of Gothic delight. The place is infamous for its strict dress code but I entered without issue- Barry was probably to thank for that [...]

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