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N:The Spread Eagle
FN:The Spread Eagle
TEL;WORK;VOICE:020 7267 1410
ADR;WORK:;;141 Albert St;NW1 7NB
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NOTE:Shortly before the Youngs brewery performed its Vulcan mind meld with Charles Wells, it had the bright idea of transforming many of its pubs in trendy areas from traditional-looking boozers to sub-Slug wooden hangouts for the hip and groovy things. In the case of the Spread Eagle, the process looks like it was started, and then stopped again, leaving a funny kind of pub-bar hybrid that might be interesting if it didn’t also come across as so half-arsed. The semi-conservatory area is still a nice enough place to while away the hours in, watching the flotsam of Camden’s daily life groan and gurn outside, and some of the old-timers still prop up the bar, staring at the racing on the TV day in and day out, maintaining some sort of continuity with times gone past. It’s far enough away from the shiny baubles of the market to not attract too many of the Camden fashionistas, who anyway tend to sit on the benches outside smoking with all the gusto of a Beijing factory, and can be an enjoyable stopover on the way to somewhere else, but like so much else in the sorrowful recent history of Youngs, it really should have been so much better. What once was great, and could again have been, has instead become Just Another London Pub.
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