Spent the weekend in London with the Fam and while the girls were off shopping on Saturday afternoon the boys decided to visit a few pubs (obvs) First up was what I'd call a "trophy pub" called "The Blackfriar" next to Blackfriar train station. It's a "trophy pub" because it's very quaint and ornate and full of people (like us!) who are just visiting to tick it off some kind of list of London pubs that should be visited. I can perhaps claim that I'm a little more of a local since back in the 80s I used to work in the Farringdon road and walked past said establishment every day, often dropping in on the way back to Waterloo after work. The inside of the pub is very ornate, lots of tiles and scenes of monks doing various Monkish things (see pic below)
The big "but" for me is that the beer hadn't really progressed much beyond the 80s, still the same fairly limp selection of cask beers from macro-producers, not massively interesting if you're interested in the modern beer scene! But anyway, still a nice gaff to visit on a sunny Saturday afternoon with your Son to while away a half an hour nursing a Timothy Taylor's Landlord or a decent pint of London Pride etc..
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