Recommendations please ? Reasonably close to Waterloo station, not eating so only require good ales. Will be meeting up around 17:30 on a weekday so nothing *too* rammed would be ideal but a hard ask no doubt.

Not the Hole in the Wall 🙂

http://thekingsarmslondon.co.uk/ although it does get busy.

There used to be a great boozer in Lower Marsh. I believe it has now changed it’s name to “Camel and Artichoke”. Sounds dead poncey.

http://www.camelandartichoke.com/

Waterloo tap

The Kings Arms is the one and has good beers. But it is busy after work. Very busy. There are good pubs a bit further from Waterloo (the Royal Oak near London Bridge is a favourite) but they’re more of a walk.

Yeah kings arms is great or the White Hart round the corner. Wellington always a favourite rendezvous.

I definitely second the Royal oak in borough, it’s one of my favourite pubs… a proper no nonsense boozer that serves Harvey’s best bitter. Much less busy than the pubs nearer waterloo too