Acceptable or even GOOD pubs in London city centre?

If you can be bothered to go to Holborn, the Lamb is my favourite pub round there:
http://www.fancyapint.com/pubs/pub77.html
Modesty screens!

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Snob screens, my friend.

Hark at you!

would rather be in a pubbage :(

Yeah the Lamb is a belter of a pub. That area is very good for pubs generally.

One day I will organise a Fancy A Gastropint here. Everything about this place is amazing.

also had fun times at lord john russell. nothing remarkable though (apart from that dark budvar craziness)

ha ha, it is called The Peasant! I need to take my brother there.

also further out east jerusalem tavern in farringdon

the peasant is indeed good, haven't been there in a while.

nothing remarkable though

Cutest barmaid ever. Like, in the whole world.

I've really got into the Carpenter's Arms on Whitfield Street recently, it's far too rammed on thursday or friday nights, but earlier in the week it's a great little pub.

matt DC omg you've obv never been to the prince of wales feathers on warren street lately.

The Jerusalem's great if very small: cloudy own-brew cider!

You people are making me want a drink. I have to go to the 100 Club tonight so maybe I shall stop in at the Champion and look at the pictures of cricketers' mighty beards.

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the hottest barmaid/waitress in london works at Medcalf formerly at comptoir Gascon.

I like the non-Sam Smiths Blue Post(s?) on Berwick Street. And newish to me is the Green Man in 'noho', if only for the huge cider selection.

you deserve a smack upside the head for calling it noho

It's noho square!

Cunty tho, aye.

Also, the King Charles IV by King's Cross. Small place with a decent Jukebox, good beer, bar billiards, and you can have take-away delivered there.

I've really got into the Carpenter's Arms on Whitfield Street recently, it's far too rammed on thursday or friday nights, but earlier in the week it's a great little pub.

The Carp would be great were it not for the fact that it is ALWAYS rammed with tosspots from the advertising agency across the road. You also have to go up two flights of stairs to take a wee.

Bricklayers thirded.

I want to do a pub crawl around that backstreet bit between St Paul's and Farringdon Road, taking in the Jerusalem Tavern and a few others. There seem to be loads of good boozers there that I have never set foot in. This can't be allowed to continue.

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I went to this weird bar in Fitzrovia that's done out like a 40s living room, Bourne & Hollingsworth. It was alright. Mostly cocktails not beer, though, but not snooty. Young people.

I like Two Floors on Kingly Street as well.

You also have to go up two flights of stairs to take a wee.

Not if you start on the roof terrace!

Oh, I've been to gigs at B&H. It's a nice place, I dig the artfully distressed decor but gets way too crowded too quick when they have bands on.

You know, it's a good thing I don't go to pubs or bars based on the cuteness of the barstaff or else I'd have to end up drinking somewhere awful like The Legion!

I want to do a pub crawl around that backstreet bit between St Paul's and Farringdon Road, taking in the Jerusalem Tavern and a few others. There seem to be loads of good boozers there that I have never set foot in. This can't be allowed to continue.

This sounds like a great idea to me.

The Wheatsheaf is my favourite of the boozers round that Charlotte Street ad-agencyland bit. Country pub feel in the middle of London.

Now I am lost on a raging sea of confusion!

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Rising Sun by Smithfields is a good Sam Smiths pub round the Farringdon area.

Oooh this looks like a good one.

The Gate is a horrible pub.

sam smiths pubs = good
sam smiths beer = piss and vinegar

can't believe we have gone over 100 posts without me mentioning this very important fact.

The Intrepid Fox was WAY better when it used to be a grotty but very friendly lesbian bar.

Your discerning metallers go to Crobar these days. We almost got The Lex in there once, happy times.

Argh, is the Crobar that awful place off Charing Cross Road where all the Terrorizer staff drink? Lex is totally right not to go in there!

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Oddly i was just about to revive a pub thread to find a boozer near the Shaftesbury Theatre (Hairspray's on) that serves food and is up-from-Surrey parent-friendly.

But on this showing, I think The Cross Keys might just fit the bill! Any more ideas?

sam smiths pubs = good
sam smiths beer = piss and vinegar

Agree re. bitter, but the lager and wheatbeer are both very good. Haven't tried the stout.

Cider not great. But beggars can't be etc.

Their stout is not as good as Guinness but compares favourably to Caffrey's and Beamish.

I think you get more than you pay for. Which is pished for less than a tenner.

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You don't get a fat jolly German man in a box any more so the shark has been jumped as far as I'm concerned.

I'm sure the Fitzroy still has a fat jolly German man in a box

the lord hood in soho is best. just down the street from phonica. it's a sammy smiths pub, so drinks are cheap

He's getting increasingly less jolly the longer they keep him there, though.

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what is the smallest pub (NOT bar) in zone 1?

I'd like to say the mitre but I'm not sure how far it goes.

My vote would be for the Jerusalem, as mentioned upthread. The Mitre has a fairly extensive upstairs area IIRC.

The Seven Stars is pretty tiny. The Nag's Head is miniscule as well.