SW1 - possibility of a drought

[benjaminty]

Hi All,

I'm leaving my client this week and trying to work out where to have leaving drinks around Victoria / St James Park area.

I'm NOT happy going to Adam n Eve, Slag n Cabbage or Ha Ha's and would like a decent lively pub or bar.

Anyone work in the vicinity and have any ideas?

A selection of decent ales/lagers in bottle and on tap would be a bonus.

Where do the Channel 4'ers hang out other than the Camel? (not sure if that's a good or bad measure)

Please help...

[PeckhamRose]

There is a lovely big pub on the Broadway opp the tube station. Can't remember it's name.

Big pub with lots of architctural features and tellies if I remember.

Have fuN!

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

There's certainly a dearth of good spelling benjaminty!

I often pass a pub on Vauxhall Br Rd that looks interesting, - nr St Vincent's Sq, haven't been but I'm shallow enough to judge on appearances.

[EDOldie]

Try this http://www.pubnetwork.com/London_sw1.htm but my recommendations would be the Duke of Wellington (locally known as the duke of boot) if you can stand the hooray henrys. The Coach & Horses was very nice years ago and worth a try. The Plumbers (opposite my old office) was where famously Lady Lucan ran in screaming 'the nanny's been murdered' and they have some interesting stuff on the wall about the case. The Lucans lived a few doors from the pub.

[Brendan]

I work around there.

There are a few decent boozers in the area. If you fancy a Sam Smiths pub there is the Cardinal(one of my favourites) behind Westminster Cathedral. If you want a ?new style? gastro type place try the Phoenixor perhaps the Old Monk on Strutton Ground. Otherwise for traditional pubs the Buckingham and the 2 Chairmen (my other favourite) are good as is Speaker?s Corner (but it can be difficult to get a seat in here). Down towards channel 4 there is the White Horse and Bower which is good. Next door are the Barley Mowand the Marquis of Granby, both are ok and way better and the Adam and Eve or the Feathers (which is the one on Broadway which has been mentioned and is dire but amusing in a drunken office workers trying to be cool and losing their dignity kind of way)

Otherwise do what we do and head to Belgravia for the evening. It has a much better selection of pubs and is wonderfully free of pissed up civil servants.

[benjaminty]

That's a serious bit of info there from all of you! I've asked around and seems the White Horse and Power is the one to plumb for.

So drought no longer a possibility!

Thanks one and all.... much appreciated!