The Buckingham Arms

A very old fashioned pub hidden away in the back of Victoria (somehow i managed to miss this pub after years of searching for it, thank you for the invention of the Sat Nav and to work colleague Rob for leading the charge to the venue). The front of the Buckingham Armas is [...]

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The Temple Bar

Probably the most famous bar in Dublin, temple bar is referenced as a collective of streets but the true temple bar is a very well established community pub. Inside the walls and corridors of the venue is a traditional pub layout of multiple rooms leading in to a glass roofed smoking area with [...]

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The Cooperage Pub

A strange and ancient looking pub sits beside the London dungeons and beside shunt club in the old tunnels if London bridge station. The interior is a hard cobbled Stone floor with barrels, hay, heavy wooden benches and small tables. On the wall on the left a sign indicating the heritage of the [...]

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The White Hart Pub

A self proclaimed pub on ancient grounds with a lurid doorway into a woody floored venue. Down this corridor there are tables either side and a bar on the right. The bar is littered with social friend pictures, youthful faces of the clientele, clearly a community pub. At the back the surprise of a more grand living room, [...]

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Ye Olde Mitre Pub

I raise my hand and admit I had to be led to this pub. It is sandwiched between a church and high rise modern buildings, claiming to be a five hundred year old tavern and every sense of the place supports this claim. The Ye Olde Mitre has a collection of black [...]

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The Jerusalem Tavern

A fundamentally quaint and powerful ancient pub is this. The Jerusalem tavern presents very very old inn furnishings, interior and bar, even the drinks are from a local brewery and bottle beers are presented in containers you would expect to see in an 18th century apothecary. The bar staff, though unfriendly are firm [...]

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Anchor Tap

An independent pub, quite fitting for this backstreet backdrop. £2.50 a pint even the barman is on the booze. out the back is an beer garden fitted snugly inside the concrete jungle around the pub. The place has several odd rooms dotted about leading one around in a complex labyrinth of lounges, seated areas [...]

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Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese

With a name like this you do stop and wonder what on earth could be the attraction to a name which sounds more like a 1940’s North Western Cheddar Factory than one of the oldest surviving taverns in the City of London. This pub is a very ancient network of old medieval [...]

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The Cittie of Yorke

This super old time pub is utterly amazing. From the front it looks like the entrance to an old court building and looks like another nook in the meaty shoulders of high holborn. In fact the Cittie of York is revealed as you walk down the open passageway of the entrance through [...]

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The Coal Hole

A traditional coal outpost-turned pub by the savoy hotel with 1900 decor, traditional sprinklings of authentic dust, friendly female bar staff and a very well established character. Never really over crowded this bar is infamous for its serving of good old hearty pies which are excellent for the kind of lunch everyone dreams [...]

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