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RateBeer Brew Tour Guide's Comments
The only surviving coaching inn in London. Full of atmosphere and history - there’s been a George Inn on this site since at least 1598, though this building dates from 1677. The house ale is actually Adnams Bitter. Decent food. This is the place to eat in Southwark, but it’s usually very busy. Come here for the history and the experience rather than picking up any scoops.
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 martinboer |
Nice to visit this pub, to be sure. But the beer selection was very poor. Nothing they don’t serve in every other pub in town.
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| ogivlado |
Nice wooden historic London house with few rooms. Beer selection is so so, ambient cheerful, just it’s a bit to tight and smothery, though there’s no smoking inside.
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| downender |
Very ordinary beer range, but worth visiting once to see a rare example of an historic galleried pub.
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| KnutAlbert |
Good food in an unique atmosphere, though it’s not cheap. It’s more of a place to stop on a tour of thea area, as the beer selection is nothing to boast of.
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| bhensonb |
It’s like an old sawdust pub, sans sawdust. Watch the feet and head - beams are in places you don’t find them these days. The real ale selection in March 2007 wasn’t what it used to be. I think Greene King may have it now.
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| TheGrandMaster |
Great building, shame the beer inside is a little wanting. Better in summer when you can sit outside int he sun trap. But still a must on any list of pubs-to-see in London.
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| Glouglouburp |
Great location and setting. Many rooms but the one you really want to check out is appropriately called the “old room”. This room will transport you to the 17th century. Very rustic and authentic. I went during the day and it was very quiet but other reviewers seem to complain that it is too crowdy and touristy. The beer selection is nothing to brag about, 4 cask and about 6 draft. Cask selection (the only thing that really matters in England) was so-so and draft selection was boring. Food looked like good typical pub meals but I didn’t eat there. Worth stopping by on your way to the Market Porter to check out the place and maybe eat something. Not a place for beer hunters.
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| ALLOVATE |
Visited this much famed coaching Inn and now trendy haunt around 10 at night, just as the sun went down, with my ever-energetic tour guide SilkTork. Quite dark as you enter the complex, with the main entrance giving you that touch of old feel. Long bar has been spruced up, as you’d expect and only three handpumps were lined up at the end of it. Simple choice between bog bitter and, err, bog bitter. Sat ourself down in the brighter, stairwell, come dispatching area and enjoyed a tipple or two. It’s a nice bar, quite crowded and unfortunately reminiscent of pre-club drinking bars here in Oz, only set in a 16th Century Coaching Inn. Still, it does have that feel about it, you just got to know where to look.
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| mowerbyte |
Even if it is sometimes overrun by tourists, one of those places you simply have to check out.
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| bitter |
Very cool atomsphere with some awesome history. good pub grub, weak beer selection. crowded at lunch time.
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