Comments on: THE FT TOP 25 PUBS OF THE 00s No 25: The Kings Arms, Borough https://freakytrigger.co.uk/pumpkin/2009/11/the-ft-top-25-pubs-of-the-00s-25-the-kings-arms-borough Lollards in the high church of low culture Wed, 16 Dec 2015 11:22:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Pete https://freakytrigger.co.uk/pumpkin/2009/11/the-ft-top-25-pubs-of-the-00s-25-the-kings-arms-borough/comment-page-1#comment-661933 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:28:35 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=16103#comment-661933 I meant oiky. Though my oik in this case is just loud lager swilling city boys completely filling up tables and leaving bags in the way.

Cross Channel Ferry pubs, thin and long, with multiple rooms. Its impossible to get any depth at the bar and you end up drinking in a completely different room to the one the bar is in, making it just like drinking on a cross channel ferry.

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By: Tom https://freakytrigger.co.uk/pumpkin/2009/11/the-ft-top-25-pubs-of-the-00s-25-the-kings-arms-borough/comment-page-1#comment-661869 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:02:28 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=16103#comment-661869 One of the problems with the George is that it has a good reputation that has spread far and wide. The times I’ve been out drinking in that area with people who are not regular London pubgoers (with no disrespect – I’m hardly one myself nowadays) they have invariably mentioned The George. In itself this isn’t a sign of anything bad – and it’s a good pub, no worse than many others in that stretch – but multiply the effect and it makes the G very busy indeed.

I also think – and this may just be the basest prejudice – that the pub enjoys its good reputation a little too much. There is a particular feeling you get from a boozer which fancies itself a bit, and I get it from the George. A few years ago I didn’t, mind.

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By: Andrew F https://freakytrigger.co.uk/pumpkin/2009/11/the-ft-top-25-pubs-of-the-00s-25-the-kings-arms-borough/comment-page-1#comment-661842 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:39:17 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=16103#comment-661842 Haha I can’t think of a word more likely to endear me to anything that ‘oiky’ – was it really the one you meant, Pete? I do really like the tables, when you can get them: inside has generally been warm in any weather, care to expand on the ‘cross-channel ferry’?

Of course my weakness in these debates is that I have a tin tongue for beers – I only drink cider, and will drink any cider (that isn’t that one you only find in the Foundry).

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By: CarsmileSteve https://freakytrigger.co.uk/pumpkin/2009/11/the-ft-top-25-pubs-of-the-00s-25-the-kings-arms-borough/comment-page-1#comment-660994 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:10:21 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=16103#comment-660994 I think it was when they painted the walls magnolia throughout that i went off the george. this was pretty much the same time as GK took over i think…

the KP is much nicer and proper cosy.

also, there was the night, after the radio that we watched the brits ceremony on the telly in there, much to the disgust of most of the locals…

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By: marna https://freakytrigger.co.uk/pumpkin/2009/11/the-ft-top-25-pubs-of-the-00s-25-the-kings-arms-borough/comment-page-1#comment-660770 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:48:09 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=16103#comment-660770 Patches of it had a lovely aged stale beer smell that always made me happy. (Patches of it probably still do have that smell, but eugh eugh Greene King beers mean I’ve not been there in *ages*.)

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By: Pete https://freakytrigger.co.uk/pumpkin/2009/11/the-ft-top-25-pubs-of-the-00s-25-the-kings-arms-borough/comment-page-1#comment-660768 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:37:14 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=16103#comment-660768 The George has always been either too busy in the summer with its rows of oiky tables outside, or oddly poky and cold in the winter, and often akin to drinking on a cross channel ferry.

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By: marna https://freakytrigger.co.uk/pumpkin/2009/11/the-ft-top-25-pubs-of-the-00s-25-the-kings-arms-borough/comment-page-1#comment-660767 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:34:23 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=16103#comment-660767 The George is managed by Greene King these days. I preferred it when it was the National Trust – tastier beers, for one thing.

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By: sarah logged out https://freakytrigger.co.uk/pumpkin/2009/11/the-ft-top-25-pubs-of-the-00s-25-the-kings-arms-borough/comment-page-1#comment-660686 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:04:18 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=16103#comment-660686 I dreamt once that I had a pint of Deuchars Dark in the Kings Arms – I am not sure if such a drink exists, but it should…

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By: Andrew F https://freakytrigger.co.uk/pumpkin/2009/11/the-ft-top-25-pubs-of-the-00s-25-the-kings-arms-borough/comment-page-1#comment-660587 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:49:34 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=16103#comment-660587 I think I’ve been with Matt when he wasn’t in this one – One of the pub crawls nearly foundered on its rocks!

I admit that I don’t understand the things that make a great pub, but for a place to sit and have a pint, The George is very good.

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By: Pete https://freakytrigger.co.uk/pumpkin/2009/11/the-ft-top-25-pubs-of-the-00s-25-the-kings-arms-borough/comment-page-1#comment-660262 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:07:00 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=16103#comment-660262 Always, its remains a lovely pub I believe. The weekend closure thing makes it a bit annoying, it would certainly be higher if we would have been able to use it earlier this year to meet in.

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By: Matt DC https://freakytrigger.co.uk/pumpkin/2009/11/the-ft-top-25-pubs-of-the-00s-25-the-kings-arms-borough/comment-page-1#comment-660253 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:36:36 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=16103#comment-660253 I have never actually been in this one. FAP sometime?

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By: Pete https://freakytrigger.co.uk/pumpkin/2009/11/the-ft-top-25-pubs-of-the-00s-25-the-kings-arms-borough/comment-page-1#comment-660138 Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:17:54 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=16103#comment-660138 Ah yes, I forgot this particular part of the legend. When arranging to meet at this pub there was often much debate over whether this was the Kings Arms or the Kings Head and as such, the pub got referred to as the Kings Part as it covered both bases.

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By: Not logged in carsmile https://freakytrigger.co.uk/pumpkin/2009/11/the-ft-top-25-pubs-of-the-00s-25-the-kings-arms-borough/comment-page-1#comment-660109 Sun, 15 Nov 2009 18:59:38 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=16103#comment-660109 Kings Part, call it by its name!

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