The Black Bull

The local watering hole in this quiet village appears to fondly be the Black Bull for a handful of residents and in a couple of visits over the course of one weekend I notice a stark contrast in the hospitality on offer. At Friday afternoon we sit in the clttered beer garden with [...]

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The Parish Pub

Within walking distance of the glorious Wembley stadium sits this timid looking Irish pub. There are frequent signs about the toilets for customer use and just inside the door is a small number of the tables with a compact bar to the right. The bar is serviced by a stern looking middle aged [...]

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The Old Fountain

The old fountain is a charismatic place, it exits onto two different roads but it still rather well cloaked in the Old Street darkness. Its full of men who are either sitting grumpily in the corners complaining or lads out for a bit of a ruckus by the main bar. The old fountain [...]

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The Park Pub

A really weird local pub with an old school late 90s juke box. We enter with a few glances from the locals,the vampire eyebrows on the stipey barlady raise as we request drinks. We sit at the rounded bar on stools and i make note of the many taps and rather impressive selection of [...]

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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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Dublin’s Fair City Pub

This pub looks like it took off from somewhere in the UK and landed slap-bang in the middle of Calella. The interior inside is exactly what would be expected from a traditional British pub including good quality Guinness, beer served in pints and a big screen showing sports for its punters. The [...]

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The Blue Posts

This perky corner pub is larger inside that you would first imagine upon approach. Inside it offers some interesting points such as attractive bar staff, food, darts(probably the closest darts offering to Oxford Street), a bar upstairs and best of all the independent air of yet another Samuel Smith’s bar. Like the others in the chain, even [...]

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Cask and Stillage

When a team of loud, beer-bellied louted locals literally shout at you when you enter a pub in between singing the worst hits off of an knock-off jukebox, you feel unwelcome and slightly scared. This venue certainly has atmosphere, but I wouldn’t call it comfortable. From the outside the place doesn’t look very [...]

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The Boston Arms
The Boston arms is a large pub opposite Tufnell park station and it is overflowing with over 40’s irish punters slapping thighs and banging glasses to the tunes of a seedy band playing classical songs that I am sure I have never heard before. To say the least I felt out of placebut [...]

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The Black Horse

A friendly pub on the corner of many roads- in fact on a roundabout in Barnet. Its a bit out of the way from the high street so you have to go looking for it. The seating is lounge worthy and comfortable and the place is rarely packed. They have a large summer [...]

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