lovely little pub venue - does delicious comfort food like pies and chips and has an adjoining small room with candlelit tables which is perfect for small comedy and live music gigs

If you can navigate your way through the students counting out their pennies on the bar, this pub offers a great range of traditional ales and fantastic pies to snaffle away while you wait for that evening’s entertainment to begin. Located near Bloomsbury, the student capital of London, it’s no surprise that a lot of these acts have pretensions of intellectual bohemia. However, that is not to say that they’re not also often highly entertaining and can attract some surprisingly big names. Past visitors to their stage include hipsters’ darling Ladyhawke, The Guillemots and next-big-things Golden Silvers. With events on almost every night, it’s often worth a gander.