Looking down Tim’s list I am in a pretty similar position to him with regards to visiting this selection of pubs (and certainly a publog outing should be on the cards). However I can add knowledge of The Bedford in Balham. It was the last pub o[…]

The Seven Stars is lovely – so lovely that I’m off there tomorrow to start a little Fleet Street crawl. Tim wrote a little review of it last year . Since that time some restructuring work has been done to it. The loo with the shower is no[…]

(A fairly desperate attempt to restore some reviews of actual current and forthcoming singles to NYLPM begins…)
CORNERSHOP – “Lessons Learned From Rocky I to Rocky III”
A sub-circle of pop hell is surely reserved for songwrite[…]

In the Library Pubs are ideal locations for a solitary read. As I had reached a very interesting bit in the book I’m currently reading while coming in on the tube today, it seemed reasonable that I go to a pub to continue perusing at lunchtime[…]

STRIPEOUT!!!! If you love old school style computer games and the White Stripes (imagine that Venn diagram if you will) then you can play Stripeout, a new online game from the White Stripes. The two-piece have thought of this absurd gimmick to get a […]

The finalists for the Evening Standard’s pub and bar of the year have been published.
I don’t have much to say about the bars on the list, because I haven’t been to any of them. Baltic is two doors down from the Ring, and I know wh[…]

Cider Armadillos were a new one on me. Having been at a football related event all day, with football fans from many clubs, much beer had already flowed, and arriving in Euston at 9.30 in the evening, the Head of Steam it was.
Some of these fellow f[…]

The Ring is, I suppose, a theme pub of a sort. Situated on Blackfriars Road near the long-demolished first home of English boxing, the Blackfriars Ring, the place is a one-room shrine to old boxers, and one gets the impression that a good portion of […]

Amusing to see (17th January) a confirmed Northern toper of confirmed Northern beer dismiss anything as ‘froth’, given how much one hears from our friends in the North about the merits of having a quarter of your pint taken up by just tha[…]

RANDY NEWMAN – Short People
Is it just me but is Randy Newman’s baiting of short people not dissimilar to the kind of Nazi propaganda which was spread in the 1930’s against the Jews? Utterly foundless, logically flawed and just hate[…]