The Grand Union

A rather plush bar set into one of the most unlikely locations just a stone’s throw from the Forum. This place is very expensive for its location at around £5 for a glass of wine and around £4 for a beer. The decor is alluring however, with not quite a romantic feel but [...]

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The Winchester Pub & Hotel

Out of the blue this totally done up venture in Highgate really works to pull the best of small crowds in the area. A spray of tables outside allow you to sit with pint in hand only a breath away from the busy road and the place is lit up [...]

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The Evangelist

Well hidden on the back cobbled streets of Blackfriar’s you seriously wouldn’t even know it was there, the very long very slender effect of this large gastro style bar with open kitchen, Chic booths and a scattering of outdoor tables. The interior is set on different levels and the impression changes around each corner. In [...]

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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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The Angelic

This bar sits behind angel in a clown-suit. It has been dressed up to look like a hip and modern Gastro/industrial style scarecrow with a juice bar, stairs so big that the customer needs hiking boots and enormous, clumsy plates with clumps of food upon them. The decor consists of large unread library volumes [...]

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The Catcher in the Rye

This pub is a short stretch up the high street from Finchley Central Station and then suddenly it appears right at the side of the road. Apparently this pub has recently had a refit from a more traditional a shady image and now presents a couple of small tables outside with [...]

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The Square Pig

This bar is tucked beside one of the smaller squares in the back of Holborn yet enjoys the polluted air of passing traffic and the bustle of the workers int he surrounding blocks at lunchtime. Outside there is some seating on some of the most rickety chairs you can imagine but within the [...]

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Old Bull and Bush

An impressive building a more quiet part of Hampstead- a large old style townhouse with a good atmosphere and very popular with the local late 20-somethings. Mostly a Jewish crowd. There is a large courtyard out the front for drinking in which a good location in the summer and inside are [...]

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The Abbey

So called because of its close promixity to Westminster abbey, this large gastro pub is in the basement of the offices above. Although new in December of 2006, it replaces another bar that stood in its place and it is a welcome surprise from what appears from the outside to be just another basement [...]

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The Phoenix

The phoenix I am told was the most run down of the deadest pub in the back of buckinghma you had ever heard of until the recent revamp to a spruced up wine bar. It is indeed popular at all times of day and drinks retail at about £3 a pint. Naturally anywhere else [...]

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