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Our most popular pub reviews
1. Ye Grapes, 16 Shepherd Market, W1J 7QQ
2. The Marquis of Granby, 2 Rathbone Street, W1T 1NT
3. The Fitzroy Tavern, 16 Charlotte Street, W1P 1HJ
4. The Rising Sun, 38 Cloth Fair, Smithfield, EC1A 7JQ
5. Butchers Hook and Cleaver, 61 West Smithfield, EC1A 9DY
6. The Duke of York, 47 Rathbone Street, W1T 1NQ
7. The Hope, 94 Cowcross Street, EC1M 6BH
8. The Smithfield Tavern, 105 Charterhouse Street, EC1M 6HW
9. Albert Arms, 57 Kingston Hill, Kingston Upon Thames, KT2 7PX
10. Bishops Finger, 9-10 West Smithfield, EC1A 9JU
Most popular pub reviews in the last week
1. Gunmakers, 33 Aybrook Street, W1U 4AP
2. The Bricklayers Arms, 53 Hawks Road, Kingston, KT1 3DS
3. Bar Nakoda, 199 Whitechapel Road, E1 1DE
4. The Crooked Billet, 14 Crooked Billet, Wimbledon Village, SW19 4RQ
5. The Fairfield Tavern, 46 Fairfield South, Kingston, KT1 2UW
6. The Rising Sun, 38 Cloth Fair, Smithfield, EC1A 7JQ
7. The Beehive, 7 Homer Street, Marylebone, W1H 4NX
8. The Duke of York, 47 Rathbone Street, W1T 1NQ
9. The Fox And Anchor, 115 Charterhouse Street, EC1M 6AW
10. Bishops Finger, 9-10 West Smithfield, EC1A 9JU
Top 10 worst pubs
Top 5 weird pub experiences
"Entertainment" is provided by a woman in a low-cut top singing hideous, out-of-tune dirges as she shakes her bits at the men. It doesn't help that she sounds like a transvestite and ill-advisedly massacres Bohemian Rhapsody at the end of the night. Barstaff include a man in a very tight leotard (and nothing else), Sergeant Pepper and Asian Elvis. Old men hug the bar to stop themselves falling over, and free food is destroyed with the gusto of a squadron of B52s dropping bombs over Tora Bora. Interracial harmony is spread through the extreme drunkenness of the punters as the madness dial is turned up way above 11.
East European disco a go-go, as Polish couples perform the polka and single men do the chicken dance to banging euro-techno from the 90s. Incredibly heavy drinking followed by vomiting in the toilets seems to be obligatory, and by the end of the night (3am) it's amazing that anyone can stand upright enough to get themselves home.
Rubber Love in a big metal shed close to the Caledonian Road.
1970s time capsule. Feel hairy and expect to meet the Sweeney as last century's most smelly decade explodes over you. Free boiled potatoes, if you're lucky.
Watch London's secretaries gyrate in a dreadful approximation of belly dancing, surrounded by mock Arabian décor and strange men in macs. Alternatively, head up to the beer patio and remind yourself that yes, this is still King's Cross.
Top 5 traditional pubs
It's been around for 500 years and knows how to do things properly. Once
a coaching inn, it has a welcoming aura of conviviality and hospitality
that is impossible to beat.
Under a railway, and standing next door to Borough Market in a gloomily
magnificent Victorian street, this opens at 6am for first orders. A pub
that has the lot, including a consistently varied range of real ales and
a fabulous restaurant upstairs.
There are some great Wapping pubs, but this Scandanavian award winner is
by far the best. Bag a terrace seat and spend an afternoon watching the
river.
With cellars beneath its cellars, wood panelled rooms and several floors
of restaurants, Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese is the jewel in the Sam Smith's
brewery crown. Samuel Johnson used to drink here, and there's no excuse
for you not to as well.
Quintessential British Boozer, with several bars and a cracking food
menu to boot. Fantastic location too, on The Street Where Time Stood
Still.
Top 5 pubs with beer gardens
Plenty of outside seating and stunning views over the river
Crap pub, but with the whole of Ally Pally as your beer garden, and the towers of Central London shimmering photogenically in the background, who cares?
Hemmed in from the world by a wall of giant foliage, you can drink to your heart’s delight while listening to a jazz band playing up on the patio.
Nab an outside table, goggle at St Paul’s Cathedral and watch the world go by.
There’s nothing better than sipping beer on a jetty, watching the waves beneath you through the cracks in the wooden slats.
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