Got a meeting in London (Tower 42, between Bank and Liverpool Street tubes) on Friday, meeting finishes at 1pm, train leaves just after 3pm from Euston.

Any suggestions for a decent pint and bite to eat around those areas? I’ve already got the Euston Tap in mind for a last stop. The more ales on tap the better please.

Cheers STW folks!

The more ales on tap the better please.

With that in mind, these are your best!

Cask, Pimlico (Crawling distance to the Victoria Line back up to Euston!) sister pubs in Clerkenwell and Islington under the Craft name are also very much worth a visit.

Harp, Covent Garden

However, keeping it more local….
For Euston – The Bree Louise is meant to be pretty good for pie and a pint. May be a bit CAMRA, though…! 😉

Liverpool St area is a bit of a vacuum for good beer, sadly!

Cheers, don’t mind it being a bit CAMRA, so long as the beer’s good, and pie would suit my northern tendencies!

Cask sounds spot on, but the tight time frame would rule that one out. Been to The Harp… spot on!

Cask, Pimlico (Crawling distance to the Victoria Line back up to Euston!) sister pubs in Clerkenwell and Islington under the Craft name are also very much worth a visit.

They are just about to open another in Covent Garden; it will be all downhill from there.

northern tendencies

Brace yourself, it’s going to be pricey!

If it was me, I would get on the metropolitan/circle line at Liverpool st and get off three stops later at Farringdon and walk to either Ye Olde Mitre (see here) or the Jerusalem Tavern (see here). These are both old school London pubs, but in my view probably the best in London. Once suitably refreshed return to Farringdon and get the same line to Euston Square and get your train home. Food in Mitre is cheap and basic toasted sandwiches and pork pies. Food in Jerusalem Tavern is a bit more upmarket – difficult not to be! Plenty of reviews of both on web.

Mossimus, I know the owners well, and I’m pretty sure they won’t let it go downhill.

Quick beer in the Jam Pot then pie or steak with egg on top, sausage on the side with some bubble in Simpson’s…. 10 min stroll from t24, on Cornhill… Proper old school city

Good beer is pretty easy to come by now. Bree Louise is OK, Euston tap selection is great but it’s very small and usually very crowded.

http://www.beerintheevening.com/
and
http://www.fancyapint.com/

are good for reference.

Pelt Trader near Cannon St, had Lagunitas IPA on tap the last time I was there. Euston Tap?

http://pelttrader.co.uk/

Pelt Trader near Cannon St, had Lagunitas IPA on tap the last time I was there.

Yes, but it’s a soul destroyingly dull place apart from that!

Is there any decent beer in Laaandon? Whenever I’ve gone there it’s been warm, stale, sticky and extremely expensive. Last week I drank a delightful fresh pint of Holts Bitter in Manchester, at the perfect temperature, for around £2.35 if I recall.

Crikey, did it really take that long for a blinkered chippy Northerner to pop up in the thread?

😐

Not sure if trolling or just stupid…

A few to get you started – Meantime, Anspach & Hobday, Brew by numbers, Kernel, Partizan, Beavertown, etc. Hell, even Fullers churn out a few damned good beers!

Yes, but it’s a soul destroyingly dull place apart from that!

Agreed, especially on a sunny day, like sitting in warehouse lock up, great beer though. The Old Red Cow and The Rake are my regulars.

A few more to get you started… Pressure Drop Bosko, Beavertown Gamma Ray – my current favs.

The pelt is under my office, l’ve been in there once… never again

Euston Tap is busy because the beer is actually good, as opposed to the Bree Louise, some of the hand pump is bearable, but the gravity beer is just dreadful.

Live with busy spill onto the street and enjoy great beer!

s there any decent beer in Laaandon? Whenever I’ve gone there it’s been warm, stale, sticky and extremely expensive. Last week I drank a delightful fresh pint of Holts Bitter in Manchester, at the perfect temperature, for around £2.35 if I recall.

As with anywhere, some pubs keep their beer better than others and unsurprisingly beer is more expensive in the place with the highest land prices in the UK. If you want a cheap pint of bitter, your best bet is one of the Sam Smiths’ pubs and they have some lovely pubs in London. I am very happy with a good pint of London Pride, which is pretty common as the Fullers’ estate is well managed. I am too cheap to bother with these new craft breweries and happy to stick with mainstream operators who have been in the business for years.

http://queensheadlondon.com

I would start here for a pint and one of their home made pork pies with piccalilli then head over to the euston tap.

Must admit I hadnt’ been to the Bree Louise til relatively recently and the beer was pretty decent – and a good choice.

A few craft beer alternatives to the Euston Tap – Holborn Whippet, just around the corner from Holborn tube, Craft Beer company, about 5 mins north of Chancery Lane tube (tho’ rather IPA-heavy on the handpulls last time I was there).

Princess Louise is a nice Sam Smiths boozer with lots of tilework and reinstated wood/glass petitions – again, near Holborn tube.

Market Porter opposite Borough Market always has a good choice of beer, tho’ a bit further from Euston.

Re Harp – great pub, tends to get particularly busy just before/after theatre show times, so worth trying to time yerself accordingly.

Nicholsons pubs are pretty decent – sausage/mash/pie kinda stuff tho’ is seems to vary between pubs
http://www.nicholsonspubs.co.uk/
– probably had the best pub pie I’ve ever had in their Dog&Duck in Soho a year or two ago (but they could have changed the menu)
http://www.nicholsonspubs.co.uk/thedogandducksoholondon/

The Royal Oak, nearish Borough Tube is a bit further still, is Harveys, and certainly used to do outstanding grub (inc proper steak+kidney puddings) – I haven’t been there for a few years tho’
http://www.harveys.org.uk/pubs-tenancies/find-our-beer/the-royal-oak-london
http://www.timeout.com/london/bars-and-pubs/royal-oak

Oh, and the Clachan nr Liberty, and nearby Youngs’ Windmill, just off Regents St are pretty decent – latter certainly does food:
http://www.windmillmayfair.co.uk/

Second Nicholsons – not bad at all and sometimes have Jaipur on. There’s the Magpie which is just east of Liverpool St Station

There’s the Drafthouse which is a bit out of your way, over near Tower Hill. Prob not worth the stroll, but worth knowing about for next time. Great range of beers, good variety of stodgy brown food (scotch eggs, ribs, wings, chips, sausage rolls, burgers etc). Not cheap though, specially if you get started on the interesting beers..

Nicholson’s always have a good selection – have some kind of beer festival on at the moment with even more beers rolling through. Was at the Clachan the other night. Don’t think their food’s up to much though.

Sam Smiths don’t seem to be nearly as cheap as they used to but they have some great pubs. Princess Louise has wonderful old urinals from what i remember. The Old Cheshire Cheese is another of theirs that’s worth a visit.