CHEEKY CURRY
My favourite Tooting curry house varies according to mood, but this month Amma, on the Mitcham Road, has a pretty strong claim. It serves rich (but rarely unsubtle), tasty South Indian food which is just right for chilly evenings –[…]

Pub Science Experiment #1
The Railway Bell, Mitcham Road
Category: nearly-Railway
In the shiny darkness of a rainy late autumn evening in London’s South Western suburbs, the Railway Bell looks rather promising. From the front it’s wide b[…]

Beyond Zone 7: Beer in space – of course it has been tried. It would be stronger than earth beer according to drink scientists but you would need to drink it out of a plastic bag. This suggests to me that space beer is in fact Tennents Super.[…]

Pub Science
This is the first in a (possible) series of experiments in thepubology. It has become clear that greater rigour may be necessary in our understanding of the pub.
Experiment #1: The Railway
The proposition which we will set out to test is[…]

Bonfire night food: I went to a bonfire night party Saturday (frankly mentioning Guy Fawkes seems pointless). All the usual food suspects rocked up from our extremely generous hosts including the baked potato and sausages. There was however a grand a[…]

WE KILLED THE QUIZ
So a couple of weeks ago I remarked on our success finally at a pub quiz, at The Old Dairy. It had been a little bit unsatisfactory though (as Ben outlines here) so we wanted to go back and win again to make it official. So we turn[…]

Not a pub post. Barely a food post. But certainly a Pumpkin post.
Flatmate returned from a trip to France at the weekend with a pumpkin carved into a Jack’O’Lantern. It was after all Halloween (and therefore along with fifty percent of th[…]

I railed a wee bit about originality being a quality that fades over time last week, especially after you have been mercilessly copied by all and sundry. The issue occurred to me again when we popped into The Eagle on Farringdon Road on Saturday. The[…]

freaky trigans w.better publogistical memories than mine will recall the name of the pub where we were canvassed by ‘kippers (= they shyly passed across to our table some rubbish leaflets, quickly leaving the pub before we cd begin our gleeful […]

Top of my Christmas list this year: Cat Poo Coffee. It’s a snip at ’31 for 250g from www.hasbean.co.uk. Santa, are you reading this?[…]