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. 64 DECEMBER 2012/JANUARY 2013 SCANORAMA $6.50 $6.50 $5 $6 (with $3 specials) $5.50 Local hero Halfway house Bottom of the barrel $5 �
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