Acceptable or even GOOD pubs in London city centre?

So the ladies tell me

apart from the craic

Dublin pwns London for small pubs.

small pubs where beer is twice the fucking price...

terrible dear so they are!

mercy!

Next time I'm in Dublin I must go into their Tesco's and ask for a jar of mussels and some potted herrings in case I get famished before dinner.

a holy show!

will ye be having a mussel now lad

Didn't The Rake by Borough Market make a load of noise about being the smallest pub in London recently? That's in zone 1.

they did but they are so small we could not hear their noise

Anyone know a pub in the Euston area with a pool table?

Or in Soho?

ken c's yer man for pub pool info

The Nellie Dean on Dean Street has a pool table. Can't think of anywhere in Euston but the pub options around there are mostly grim anyway.

Yeah didn't have high hopes for Euston, got friend down from the north who's staying around there so was trying to make it convenient for him but never mind.

Nellie Dean is a possibility though, thanks Matt.

I thought that place across from the British Library has a pool table or two?

Ah yes, the Rocket, corner of Euston and Charlton Street is pretty awful, but does have two pool tables.

Pleasant London pubs with pool tables are a rapidly dying breed.

DUKE OF YORK on Clerkenwell Road has table football and a pool table.

The Rocket is where the British Library staffers drink, and it's the best bet of a bad bunch. Or at least looks like a pub people would be happy with, albeit in a bad area for them. There is a gastro on Chalton Street too.

Any of the pubs in sommerstown or around Drummond st have pool?

The Rocket is in that area. I have imbibed there with BL pals and like it. OTOH I imagine every estate pub in Somers Town has pool or darts.

If you're going to go over to Clerkenwell then you're better off in the King's Arms than the Duke of York due to it having a jukebox and dartboard in the same games room as the pool table/table football.

And if you're lucky you might see Boris Johnson up there attempting to seduce a woman who is not his wife.

King's Arms does good Thai food too.

Looks like we're going for the Soho option, but thanks for suggestions, I will attempt to remember that Euston place for future reference...

good pre-gig drinking establishment in angel / kings cross area...?

lexington (mostly american beers and whiskeys but still a pub vibe)/agricultural (fairly old skool boozer)/angelic (fairly new skool boozer, large but crowded) ...

ja i'm taking a girl on a date and she just played at the lex last weekend i want to surprise her with somewhere nice / new

looking for good food, good drinks...

or somewhere with a pool table.

ideal would be good pizza + lots of good european lagers type place

try The Regent on Liverpool Rd

good call, that place does excellent pizza

oi London ilxorz

anybody know anything about
THE FIGHTING COCKS
Old London Road
Kingston-upon-Thames, London

i.e. what neighborhood/part of London is that?

(I'm speaking at the black metal theory symposium which is being held there in Jan, and I gotta decide if I want to stay at a hotel in the area- but before that, I was wondering if y'all have a bead on where this is at)

Kingston is pretty far out south west (barely) London so if you stay out there it might be cheap but probably quite dull with it

about 30 mins in to town by train, on the river, pretty, posh.

oh, okay, def. not going to stay there then!
thanks for the warning; gimme central anytime

is it like Zone 5 or 6 or summat?

zone 6 yeah

xps

cosign on all the above, except maybe 'posh' - is it not one of those Jekyll/Hyde places that's money & pushchairs by day, rough-as at night?

Zone 6, overland only I think.

how late do tubes run at night? (sorry dumb tourist here)
I'm thinking a cab from zone 6 to the center = ouch

overland only, last train 23.49 apparently.

Last train from Kingston looks to be a bit before midnight (11.49). That's overground: tube carries on a little later centrally, but won't help you much, because the nearest stations (Richmond, Wimbledon?) aren't very near, and since they're at the end of a line, send their last trains into the centre about midnight.

The N77 night bus would get you back.

(xp)

thanks people for the advice and handholding, next i'll be asking how much it costs to get on the London Eye or something

nightbus it is, because I think this pub-conference-whatever-thing ends with a band playing and it's going to go superlate

good pre-gig drinking establishment in angel / kings cross area...?

― Crackle Box, Thursday, 18 November 2010 07:26

http://www.thecharleslambpub.com/

it might possibly be a bit better in summer when you can sit outside but should fit bill

thanks!

so, not the john snow, ever again, then: http://twitter.com/jpw84/status/58302645491859456

tf

John Snow isn't actually that good anyway so no great loss.

Incurring the wrath of gay people is probably not the way to run a pub in Soho, mind.

jesus that's weird.

WTF.

TBH I hate that place anyway

full story - http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/14/gay-claim-ejected-pub-kissing

it was pretty cool to see how twitter not only gave the story legs, but actually put those witnesses in touch with the couple, having not known them previously