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LONDON PUBS
THE FACT SHEET
PUB VERDICT ADDRESS PINT FROM
RATING
The Harwood
Arms
The Sir
Charles Napier
The Jerusalem
Tavern
The Hope
The Churchill
Arms
The Eagle
What the pint
glasses mean:
Unbelievable food but you
can still just stop in for a pint.
Idyllic on a sunny day, but
don’t expect a proper pub.
Character, charm, history, and
great beer – what more could
you want?
Hopeless
(despite the excellent fry-up).
Victorian pub meets Thai
restaurant: an unexpectedly
good combination
The place that changed
pub grub forever.
two of them have their hair dyed in quite surprising
shades – and they call everyone ‘Dear,’ irrespective
of age or sex.” He then revealed that The
Moon Under Water is imaginary, a dream of how
a pub should be. My own must-have list would
include a sense of history, small-batch beer, no
music, and an atmosphere that makes it easy to
engage other customers in friendly conversation.
The Churchill Arms comes close. Orwell would
have loved the architecture of this Victorian boozer
on the border of Kensington High Street and
Notting Hill as he preferred pubs with “the solid,
comfortable ugliness of the 19th century.” From
the outside it’s an astonishing sight, covered with
a riot of hanging baskets and blooming window
boxes so that the entire building looks like a huge,
over-decorated birthday cake.
Inside, copper tankards hang from the beams
and pictures of the Queen Mother, Winston
Churchill and other great Britons smother the
walls, alongside a clutter of mirrors, street signs
and assorted memorabilia. It has heavy darkwood
furniture and the same boldly patterned
burgundy carpet you always fi nd in Victorian
pubs. A lively mix of punters fi lls the bar: loud
Australians in rugby shirts, a bickering husband
and wife with a dog, an elderly dandy wearing a
Walham Grove,
Fulham, London.
www.harwoodarms.com
Sprigs Holly,
Chinnor, Oxfordshire.
www.sircharlesnapier.co.uk
55 Britton Street,
Clerkenwell, London.
www.stpetersbrewery.co.uk
94 Cowcross Street,
Smithfi eld, London.
119 Kensington Church
Street, London. www.
churchillarmskensington.co.uk
159 Farringdon Road,
Clerkenwell, London.
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$6.50
$6.50
$5
$6 (with
$3 specials)
$5.50
Local hero Halfway house Bottom of the barrel
$5
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