The Limey There were some seriously drunk people in the Lime Bar by eight o’clock. So drunk, in fact, that they were dancing at the bar to The Best Big Beat Anthems In The World…Ever! which was being played on a loop. It was enough to m[…]

FIVE… Only bottled beer served. Fine if you like the Polish beer “EB” (unlikely).
4… Club Nite Tonite and every night. Fine if you like jazz/funk.
3… Buy a drink and get your change back on a plate. Do they really thi[…]

Sloshed in Sosho Here’s the much-delayed report of last Thursday’s boozathon. Not much in the way of pub action here – it’s all bar-related, I’m afraid. Time to find out how the other half drinks.[…]

The Best Barmaid In London? Possibly. Now everyone knows that Pumpkin Pubs has a strange predilictation for The Rising Sun on Tottenham Court Road – usually known as The Riser. Strange because these days there really is little special about the[…]

Oxford Calling, Oxford Calling….this is just to say that the Pumpkin Publog is back to its former Blogspot glory, now the whole server problem seems to be under control. We would have contributed, of course, but we had no guarantee that any mon[…]

Well here’s another live publog from “Sosho”. John, Magnus and Kate are on the tiles, mopping up a few wannabe haunts. And so we find ourselves strangely drawn to the prospect of revealing our innermost drinking thoughts in a sty[…]

For what it’s worth, here’s my thoughts on the world of drinking in said region. As I am not very good with maps I am hoping all pubs mentioned fall into the catchment area but this is a very tricky part of the world to navigate as whenev[…]

thirteen days in sosho
I leave my job on the 26th Jan, and this marks the end of my weekday presence in what many would have you believe to be London’s finest bar zone. Hmmm. “Where are you going tonight?” “Well I thought I[…]

The Institute of Contemporary Arts: aka ICA. Its not a pub is it? Well, I guess not – but it has a bar which fulfils most of the pub pre-requisites in my book. It was salubrious, comfy and a good place for long ranting chats about arcane movies[…]

The Pub Seven Deadly Sins: 3: Fake Doors
There is a joke about this. “When is a door not a door? When it is the left hand door of the Lord John Russell.”
It is cold, dark and relatively late. You are scurrying to meet friends in a local p[…]