This is the only pub on our list to have changed hands, its name and still retained a degree of quality. We came into the new millennium with this odd station pub being called the Head Of Steam, and left with the much grander name of the Doric Arch. […]
YES BUT, the Head of Steam on request will do you POUTINE! I.e; they will do you chips with CHEESE AND GRAVY! The barstaff seemed somewhat perplexed by our Canadian themed request on Friday night (whot, didn’t they KNOW it was Canada day that w[…]
Scrabble Tournament: The Head of Steam, London, 9 May Hello you! The T.M.F.D current Scrabble Champion here, reporting back. Yes, I won the tournament, but I’m not boasting, am I? Me? As if! Either way, I drew three games, each against some ver[…]
Bah, despite going to the old Head of Steam (see publog, passim), the night after it re-opened, we have still be beaten to the first write-up by fancyapint. As Jack says, it’s a very benign make over, but i think it works well. They’ve t[…]
Some proper real actual PUB SEXISM on show last night in the Head Of Steam, Euston. I go to the bar and order a pint of Holt, 3 assorted halves, a glass of white wine, a bottle of Leffe Blond and…an pint of LIME AND SODA. Cue gales of laughter […]
The Head of Steam is a strange old place. Part of the concrete Euston complex built controversially in the 60s (John Betjeman famously campaigned against the demolition of the previous, Victorian, Euston station, and particularly its large Doric arch[…]
Spotted in the Head Of Steam last night (pub one of three for me) – a new style of hi-rise charity box. In a wooden frame there were five perspex boxes all labelled with their respective charities. The HoS said they would double any money given[…]
Finally, and apologies for lateness which was caused by a fire at my workplace. (I did not start the fire. It was always burning since the world was turning.)
FT TOP 100 FILMS 1: SPY KIDS Martin Skidmore says: This list was put together in the last […]
Tonight was the first practice for the Falcons, my daughter’s U-10 soccer/football/whatever team. Ten players of varying ability and personality type. We have our talented but mercurial striker, great scavenger of other team’s mistakes, l[…]
The Euston Hexagon. This was a post Christmas, pre-New Year pub crawl which dragged a good fifteen people to some lesser known pubs in the Euston Area. That was the plan. As it happened the timing meant a couple of the pubs were shut. The original pl[…]