The Prince Arthur

Euston Station hides this pub in its shadow. Relatively busy inside with nice leather sofas and small but with a thick-set central bar. There are flowers on all of the tables and the bar persons are a token above friendly making the experience fully enjoyable. There is also a good variety of drinks [...]

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Bleeding Heart Tavern

With a shed-load of heritage this is one of clerkenwell’s favoured taverns. Probably still in its original design its a wooden style drinking area parked to the right of a walkway which takes you down to a plush restaurant downstairs. The pub itself is small but with heaps of character. The bar persons [...]

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Elvino Wine Merchants

El Vino, I am told, is an institution in London wines. The venue looks like a very old bakery from the front but inside it becomes a deep set bar and cafe behind the shop front with a very thorough stock of interesting wines. In the summer an area to the right [...]

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Ochre Bar

Precisely halfway between St Pauls and Blackfriars, Ochre is a cosmopolitan bar set into the quiet backstreets of the city, truely few know it is even there which makes this place one to to head to if you are fond of a little more space. Into the evning there is available seating in this [...]

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Crown and Anchor

I enter this place with Michael Jackson playing- inside I find a corner bar stretching form the centre of the pub down into the rest of it. There are a few scattered tables and some leather wall-set benches. The venue remains rather bright in the middle of the day and of an afternoon [...]

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The Ivy House

The Ivy conjures up images of celebrity and fame but of course this is not “The Ivy”. This particular venue is a rich, middle market pub and restaurant serving up Thai food and continental beers. The pub itself is divided by two entrances. The one coming from Holborn station on the right delivers [...]

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Sports Bar

The Sports bar in the South Terminal of Gatwick Airport displays various signs of indication that its location is in some point in elevation above the rest of the departure lounge and indeed it is positioned in the crows nest of the airport. One must climb a sharp set of metal stairs in order [...]

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Bok South African Bar
There is a small den in Covent Garden for Saffas they may have wandered this way and it come int he form of a bar named “Bok”. It truly is a South African dream bar with flags, cricket stumps, foreign currency on the walls and zebra print stools around a few small [...]

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The Atlas

The Atlas is a Big wooden pub just down the road from the Earls court 2 Exhibition centre. It is quite hard to see from the centre so you wouldn’t actually think it was there unless you veered off of the usual paths. The pub is a flat red wooden front in full bloom [...]

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Rose and Crown

A medium to small wooden bar occupies this quiet spot in the village of Highgate. It is a simplicity of pub - like front, wood panelling interior with tiny bar and a small beer garden at the back. At night there is a half glow of candles and the striking red walls and [...]

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