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Good, cheap old man pubs in central London

22 votes
? by RockNRollMassacre

ones you can sit, drink ale and talk ALL DAY in without being bothered by cunts, but without getting funny looks if you're not a regular

plz!

RockNRollMassacre | 01 Jul '08, 20:12 | Send note | Report this | Reply

^

Fitzroy Tavern
Bricklayers Arms
Cittie of York

and some others i can't remember

silentlyamused | 1 Jul '08, 20:16 | Send note | Report this | Reply

yeah that's it, sam adams is a nice new england ale

what's the one called kind of near soho square, where you have to practically crawl into separate chambers?

Axis | 1 Jul '08, 20:18 | Send note | Report this | Reply

i know what you mean its really long and thin

and is called something like the cat in the pond or the horse in the moon?

aldo | 1 Jul '08, 20:20 | Send note | Report this | Reply

^ is often really cramped though

Ye olde cheshire cheese on Fleet street has tons of quiet seats and is also a bit mental and weird in an old manish sort of way.

EustaceHPlimsoll | 1 Jul '08, 22:41 | Send note | Report this | Reply

its called

THE JOHN SNOW and its great

Smee | 2 Jul '08, 11:22 | Send note | Report this | Reply

^^

fitzroy Tavern for the win

HolmenatorNo2 | 2 Jul '08, 00:12 | Send note | Report this | Reply

^ These

One of my lecturers likes to have the odd lecture at the Sam Smiths pub on the Strand (The Lyceum). They have a tendency to get messy.

twicetwoequalsfour | 1 Jul '08, 20:17 | Send note | Report this | Reply

i do comparative lit

but the history lot seem to have seminars in there all the time. i really offended one girl by saying that she reminded me of daisy from spaced. i thought it was a compliment :o(

twicetwoequalsfour | 1 Jul '08, 22:59 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Sam Smiths pubs are cheap

and pleasingly old mannish. The Red Lion on Kingly Street is such a pub, and spread over two floors.

Or there's the Blue Posts (either on Berwick Street or Rupert Street). Bit more expensive but still good.

Or there's the Coffee House on Beak Street, which is festooned with bizarre trinkets on the walls. And often bamos at a table.

colonol_k | 1 Jul '08, 20:15 | Send note | Report this | Reply

been waiting for someone

to repost this... bookmarked :D

crumbs | 1 Jul '08, 20:38 | Send note | Report this | Reply

snap

Axis | 1 Jul '08, 20:39 | Send note | Report this | Reply

wetherspoons on old street

but only until 5pm.

guntrip | 1 Jul '08, 22:37 | Send note | Report this | Reply

A Sam Smith's

Either The Cock off Gt Portland Street or The Chandos near Trafalgar Square, innit.

JoeDiddly | 1 Jul '08, 22:57 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Definitely not cheap

and not paticularly great, apart from the waitresses.

Stick with the Sammy Smiths. I'd throw in a vote for the Princess Louise in Holborn.

Grevaldinho | 2 Jul '08, 11:15 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Another vote for Sam Smith's

The White Horse, Rupert St
The Angel in the Fields, by Centrepoint
The John Snow, Broadwick St

Also the Glasshouse Stores on Brewer St

brandet | 2 Jul '08, 11:19 | Send note | Report this | Reply


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