Please tell me these places are still there, unspoilt, ungentrified....

[????]

Polos

The Nell Gwyne

The Troy Bar

Coach & Horses

...never gonna find out myself.

[katie1997]

Er...where are they?

Recognise 2 of the place names but not sure if they're exactly the same ones you're reminiscing about...

[jctg]

I think the Troy's still there. I remember it very well...

[red devil]

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...

[woodrot]

whitstable

[civilservant]

The Indian YMCA canteen

[BrandNewGuy]

The Nell Gwynne's still fairly unspoilt but busier than before. The Troy Club (Hanway St) shut a couple of years ago when the lovely lady who ran it (whose name escapes me) passed away.

[red devil]

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]

The Troy Bar

Is that anything like The Troy Sauna ?

[Salsaboy]

Nah, more like Chariots Roman Spa.

[jctg]

Annette Curtain Wrote:

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> The Troy Bar

>

> 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.

[BrandNewGuy]

Yeah, you had to become a member, which entailed giving them a quid and they'd give you a card and ask you to sign it. Very louche, but brilliant for a late-night tipple.

[Asset]

Pollo bar closed years ago, coach and horses still there but landlord dead

[Michael Palaeologus]

Coffee House, Beak Street

The French House, Dean Street

Red Lion, Kingly Street

[southmark]

Used to go to the Troy bar for afternoon drinkies before the pubs opened all day. Ah, memories, I'd forgotten all about that place, thanks.

[civilservant]

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

[ratty]

Used to drink in the coach when Norman had it and the three greyhounds when Roxy had it. She gave me the pub for NYE 99 - 2000 and we watched the fireworks from the roof!

['bout now]

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.

[BrandNewGuy]

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...

[tfwsoll]

The Photographer's Gallery moved to refurbished premises on Ramillies Street ages ago CivilServant...were you referring to their place on Great Newport Street?

[Atticus]

Bradley's Bar on Hanway Street, reassuringly scruffy with great juke box.

[Huguenot]

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'.

[KidKruger]

I miss Dive Bar.

[Chillaxed]

I'm with Huguenot on this one.

[BrandNewGuy]

The India Club on the Strand next to King's College is unspoilt. Table, chair, jug of water, plate of food. Sorted.