London pubs

[luka]

the pelt trader under cannon st has good beer but is full of people who work in recruitment and its in a railway arch so its dingy.

 

[luka]

fairly sure the only good pub in stratford is the wetherspoons. the prince edward whould be good, loads of potential, but it never has been. they have never been able to make it feel cosy.

 

[wild greens]

Mate of mine moved to Woodford recently and I know there is a debate as to whether it is actually London or not (IG postcode) but the Rose & Crown was really really good

 

[luka]

the essex fringe often has men in shorts, polo shirt, no socks, suede moccasins. that's all i can say about that area really. probably dress differently for winter mind. lots of lager. plume of feathers is another good greenwich one think greens told me about that one maybe. smells of liver and onions.

 

[wild greens]

rather you than me.

It's good because the project is finished now so I can look at the area with a kind of perverse nostalgia, perhaps in the way Yanks of a certain age love to write about 'Nam

 

[luka]

dont go to the irish one on trafalgar rd tho, depressing.

 

[wild greens]

plume of feathers is another good greenwich one think greens told me about that one maybe. smells of liver and onions.

That is a great pub. Terrible carpets

 

[luka]

i havent had a drink since christmas eve. pretty boring.

 

[wild greens]

Do you want to get pissed next week Luke. I can't do Thursday or Friday daytime though

 

[wild greens]

Sorry if you've gone sober or something I'm not around enough anymore to know what's going on

 

[luka]

is that in febuary? i can do it if its in febuary

 

[wild greens]

Oh you've gone dry. We can do week after

 

[Mr. Tea]

we took @mvuent to the stockton in deptford which is a bar with good cocktails. same people own the watergate, which is a nicer space, and the one under the railway arch. i dont like drinking in railway arches. all really good cocktails though, and natural wine if you like that.

Hang on though, a cocktail bar is a wholly different animal from a pub.

At least, I wouldn't trust a pub to serve a good cocktail, and if I was in a bar that did good cocktails, it would no doubt be disqualified from being a 'pub' for other reasons.

 

[luka]

yeah you cant order a cocktail in a pub i was straying from the remit please forgive me

 

[Mr. Tea]

the dog and bell nearby is one of the most beautiful pubs in London

How does it compare to the Princes Louise on Holborn?

 

[Mr. Tea]

yeah you cant order a cocktail in a pub i was straying from the remit please forgive me

Say three Hail Mary's and we're good.

 

[luka]

way better drinks. its more a classic pub interior and clinentele. they put the racing on. pool table. loads of middle class drinkers too and students. pretty mixed crowd. like the hope and anchor (i think its called? which was my dads favourite pub) on the canal in clapton in that respect, but without the huge cloud of skunk smoke and the pitbulls.

 

[luka]

theyve got a very large selection of bottled belgiums, some good scotch, kernel on tap if you like that, cask options.

 

[luka]

also dog and bell is all white while the one in clapton isnt, if you're giving marks for that.

 

[Mr. Tea]

way better drinks. its more a classic pub interior and clinentele. they put the racing on. pool table. loads of middle class drinkers too and students. pretty mixed crowd. like the hope and anchor (i think its called? which was my dads favourite pub) on the canal in clapton in that respect, but without the huge cloud of skunk smoke and the pitbulls.

I just meant in terms of how it looks.