The Red Lion and Sun

No longer the smokey dungeon of its dubious past, but a gastro-pub restored to some level of glory - a proud feel about the place with well dressed clientele in a mess of twenty-somethings and OAPs. The barmen are a huddle of gents in their thirties serving the growing crowd with some haste [...]

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Woodies Ale House

Woodies has enough of a claim to fame to be perfectly well standing on its own with the merit of being the start of the otley run. Probably the most famous pub crawl north of the equator. And Woodies is a very busy place to be at midday on a Saturday. Entering from [...]

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The Kings Arms

Along the trail of the Monopoly pub crawl and in the back streets of Mayfair is the Kings Arm’s. Quite a tidy looking pub set in a pedestrianised quiet square. There are a few characters and obviously regulars planted outside the pub welcoming in new faces with smiles. Within the place is quite small [...]

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The Phoenix Pub

A busy place to be after work, the phoenix seems to be yet another pub in this shady corner of Oxford Cirus with more character than every other pub in soho. The places is rammed with middle-aged persons and students, none too posh or common, some in kilts and trendsetters in what is [...]

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The Clachan Pub

A more traditional pub located in a strip of town which pulls the suited and the fashionable. The clachan is a lounge which has been moulded into two rooms with soft old 18th century lanturns, a glass front and an interior stocked with thin wood tables and chairs. The bar is a low and an [...]

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The Albion Pub

Olympia isn’t exactly crammed with vibrant pubs but this little number a little down the road from the conference centre suits most tastes. It is a dark woody long pub with lots of light coming in from its small windows and packed full of suits eating their lunch and drinking. The bar staff [...]

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The Falcon Pub

The Falcon takes center stage in clapham junction. Just a few steps from the station it is the nearest watering hole and i notice inside the light tingle of background showtunes as punters sip ale. The Falcon has a relaxed atmosphere in the day of middle aged drinkers conversing under the high ceiling [...]

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Tabernacle Bar

The Tabernacle is set back behind central Old Street and the station but it is one of the more trendy places to inhabit among the vast variety of bars in the area. This venue is a bar with a restaurant in the back, the decor is very notably art deco style with a long bar running though the [...]

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El Porata Bar

Sitting in the shadow of Tossa Castle and just over looking the secret beach at its rear is this al fresco bar. Quite communal, traditional and popular with a handful of locals, El Porata Bar dishes up good little jugs of sangria alongside popular brands of beer. The venue has seating around each of its [...]

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Bertorelli Restaurant

This popular chain of restaurant/bar combinations is dotted all over the west end of London but I think this is the original of that chain. The bar area is downstairs in this two floor venue – it is brightly lit up with an average selection of beers and wines and caters to the couples [...]

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