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N:The Blue Eyed Maid
FN:The Blue Eyed Maid
TEL;WORK;VOICE:020 7378 8259
ADR;WORK:;;173 Borough High St;SE1 1HR
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NOTE:Pub owners, when they get the Vision Thing, are only marginally less scary than politicians. In this particular instance, whatever cabal of madmen run the Blue Eyed Maid decided that it could be turned into a one-stop-shop for the traditional night on the town. Need a pub that you can drowse away an afternoon in while reading the paper? Need an Indian restaurant to fill you to your neck with no-nonsense curry? Need a pre-club boozer where you can stand around eying up the birds to inane booming music? Need a nightclub venue with a big screen, a dancefloor and a licence until 4 in the morning so you can stagger round getting lary with lots of firemen and nurses? No problem – welcome to the Blue Eyed Maid, a pub that has sacrificed everything to bring you everything, a curious mess of an experience that’s not quite one thing or another, and mostly an atmospheric void until 10 at night, when the high heels and suits start arriving. A swift note of caution – the toilets reminded me rather too forcefully of Samuel Pepys’ complaint in his diary about his neighbour’s gong-pit, which one day exploded and overflowed into Pepys’ basement. You can smell them before you reach them: always a bad sign.
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