pubs

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Station Pubs: Are Any Of Them Worth Visiting?

Booze might now be banned on public transport, but that doesn’t stop us getting trolleyed in the stations. The Betjeman Arms recently opened at St Pancras, bringing a much-needed touch of class to London’s catalogue of terminus taprooms. To celebrate, we decided to go on …

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Football: A Euro 2008 Odyssey

Over the last few years it has become popular to enjoy football matches in the pub, rather than at the stadiums themselves. This is even more true of the often far-flung international summer tournaments and increasingly people want to watch each match alongside supporters who …

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New Barnet With Your Babycham, Madam?

A Tufnell Park boozer has come up with a neat way of drawing in the punters during this time of heightened wallet worrying: they’re offering customers a haircut along with their Heineken. The Dartmouth Arms has hired stylist Arlene Stainthorpe to visit every Thursday night, …

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More Woes For Winehouse

Amy Winehouse’s mid-song patter has leaned rather heavily on her ‘incarcerated Blake’ since he was locked up awaiting trial last November. And it doesn’t look like she’ll be needing a new autocue anytime soon, as her hubby has just pleaded guilty to the assault that …

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Sunday Lunch: The Flask

Let Londonist help you celebrate one of Britain’s most cherished traditions, the Sunday Lunch. The Flask 77 Highgate West Hill, N6 6BU Nearest Tube: Highgate 020 8348 7346 11am-11pm (Monday-Saturday); 12pm-10.30pm (Sunday) Expect to Pay: Typically, £8-10 for a main course Rating: 7.5 out of …

Fancy a Pint? Try One of These Top 10 Pubs

Every month, the folks at Fancyapint? get together to vote for their top ten favourite pubs. These are recently visited pubs that for one reason or another (the ambience, the booze, the company) stuck in their collective memory. Kindly, these booze-savvy Fancyapinters have decided to …

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Fancy a Pint? Try One of These Top 10 Pubs

Every month, the folks at Fancyapint? get together to vote for their top ten favourite pubs. These are recently visited pubs that for one reason or another (the ambience, the booze, the company) stuck in their collective memory. Kindly, these booze-savvy Fancyapinters have decided to …

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Fancy a Pint? Try One of These Top 10 Pubs

Every month, the folks at Fancyapint? get together to vote for their top ten favourite pubs. These are recently visited pubs that for one reason or another (the ambience, the booze, the company) stuck in their collective memory. Kindly, these booze-savvy Fancyapinters have decided to …

Accessing Wheelchair Accessible London?

A man rolls into a bar. Sounds like the start of a dumb joke? It’s not. Wheelchair-enabled people like going out in the evening as much as anybody. What does appear to be a joke is how difficult it can be to find info about …

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Why Don’t Creationists Just Shut Up?

That’s one of the relaxing conversation pieces to be found at a ‘Skeptics in the pub’ meetup. Tonight’s guest speaker is Dr Matthew Smith from Liverpool Hope University, who will talk about fate, the meaning of life and mid-life crises. We caught up with co-organiser …

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Fancy a Pint? Try One of These Top 10 Pubs

Every month, the folks at Fancyapint? get together to vote for their top ten favourite pubs. These are recently visited pubs that for one reason or another (the ambience, the booze, the company) stuck in their collective memory. Kindly, these booze-savvy Fancyapinters have decided to …