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6.00pm - 6.20pm |
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The Hill
94 Haverstock Hill
London NW3
- This recently reopened pub is aptly named. Here's a review
from the CAMRA website:
"Its hard to tell what this place once looked like, all
you can say now is what you get is oddly amazing. There's a small
drinking room covered by a vast array of mirrors. The main room
has about half set out for table service in gastro pub style(lunch
12-3 dinner 7-10) and the rest is filled with chaise longues,
lovers stools and other (for a pub) unusual furniture. There's
a fantastic decked garden and some interesting older features
remain, such as the curved main entrance."
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#2
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6.25pm - 6.45pm
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Sir Richard Steele
97 Haverstock Hill
London NW3
- Has a beer garden of sorts. The inside has a curiosity value
also, as this CAMRA review points out:
"The upper reaches of this marvellous looking pub together
with the huge corner sign (advertising the defunct Wests Brewery)
still proclaim the pub name we use here although the gloss bowled
lights advertise Steeles. Inside is a veritable Aladin's cave
of memorabilia, bric a brac and oddments, including a huge painting
in the back bar virtually covering a wall. There is a fine bowed
stained glass window, candlelit tables, a large beer garden,
and the back room operates a no smoking policy when food is on
sale."
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#3
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7.00pm - 7.40pm
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The Stag
67 Fleet Road
London NW3
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The exterior of Zamoyski's: a Polish vodka bar/restaurant.
Gold flecked vodka!
A couple of the fruit flavoured vodkas, looking to all intents
and purposes like some strange lagers.
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#4
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7.45pm - 8.45pm
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Zamoyski (upstairs
bar)
85 Fleet Road
London NW3
- A vodka bar! Serves a variety of flavoured vodkas (chocolate,
banana, plum, gold (sic)). We had exclusive use of the upstairs
bar. The food is excellent as well.
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#5
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8.45pm - 9.25pm
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The Garden Gate
14 South End Road
London NW3
- Has Belgian beers on tap. Also had a splendid beer garden.
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#6
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9.25pm - 10.10pm
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The Magdala
2a South Hill Park
London NW3
- Has infamous associations with yesteryear and it seems as
if the pub is being preserved as a 1950s museum piece. In 1955
Ruth Ellis was hanged for fatally shooting her lover, David Blakely,
outside this pub. (It was claimed that the damage to some of the pub's tiles were caused by stray bullets but this is very unlikely.) The outcry concerning the case
was partially responsible for the eventual abolition of the death
penalty - Ruth Ellis remains the last woman hanged for a crime in England.
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#7
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10.15pm - closing
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The Roebuck
15 Pond Street
London NW3
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Some none too sober people on the tube home.
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