On a bench in The Mayflower, Rotherhithe, is a quotation from Charles Dickens to the effect that poverty and oysters always go together. At the Cow in Westbourne Park, which styles itself a ‘saloon bar and dining rooms’, this is demonstrably untrue. Admittedly, they maintain the old custom of serving oysters with Guinness, but the [...]
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One might suspect that the landlord of The Churchill Arms is a little bit potty, since there are no fewer than 101 chamber pots hanging on the ceiling. This is certainly one of London’s more oddball pubs, and yet in its eccentricity it is truly endearing. The dominant theme is Sir Winston Churchill — portraits [...]
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