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Re. Coach and Horses, from a TimeOut review...


'The West End's most famous pub' now features 'Norman's Coach & Horses pub piano singalong' twice a week and the Private Eye dining room upstairs, named after the satirical stalwart whose editorial team met here.


Nuff said...

The Golden Heart pub on Commercial St used to be trad and unspoilt, complete with cat asleep on the bar under a lampshade, then quickly became uber hip wankdom when the YBA's turned up, but if you go on a quiet afternoon, still worth a visit... http://www.timeout.com/london/bars/venue/2%3A20279/the-golden-heart

Annette Curtain Wrote:

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> The Troy Bar

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> Is that anything like The Troy Sauna ?



It's (was?) on Hanway Street, behind Oxford Street, near TCR. Above that very shabby record shop. Before the licensing laws were changed in 2005 it was the only place you could get a late drink round there I think. Just a room with a bar.

Mandeer - an Indian veggie wholefood place that served some of the best samosas in London in a basement on Hanway Street

The Photographer's Gallery tearooms

Liberty, before its make-over, with its gloriously shabby chic, when it sold things that were actually affordable


All gone and greatly missed

Michael Palaeologus Wrote:

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> Coffee House, Beak Street

> The French House, Dean Street

> Red Lion, Kingly Street



i can report that the Coffee House is exactly the same S*ithole as it has always been, Barry, Dennis and the boys are as welcoming as Burmese border guards and the bogs are appalling.


I spend way to much time there.

civilservant Wrote:

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> Mandeer - an Indian veggie wholefood place that

> served some of the best samosas in London in a

> basement on Hanway Street


And fantastic shrikhand for pud. I also miss the Hare Krishna Curry House at the end of Hanway St. Wonderful patra and a little waterfall in the corner lit up with fairy lights...

Juke box? Sounds a little bit gentrified to me.


Are there any unspoilt places where men in top hats sip mint juleps at the bar and you can still catch cholera in the toilets?


Or pick any other time in history and claim that's the 'unspoilt' time ;-)


Anywhere that stinks of piss and poverty must be better after all! Poor people are more 'real'.

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