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King of Diamonds, Farringdon  fancyapint.com rated pub, rated2 pints - click for an explanation of our ratingsCask Marque pub - click for an explanation of the Cask Marque scheme

location:

Farringdon

address:

1 Greville Street, EC1N 8PQ

phone:

0871 258 6305*
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nearest stations:

Chancery Lane London Underground station
(170m) - zone 1

Farringdon railway stationLondon Underground station
(290m) - zone 1

City Thameslink railway station
(470m)

Barbican railway stationLondon Underground station
(770m) - zone 1

Holborn London Underground station
(780m) - zone 1

how to find it:

From Chancery Lane: Take the Leather Lane exit and carry on until you reach Leather Lane and turn left. The pub is about 150 meters ahead on the right. From Farringdon: turn right out of the station and cross Farringdon Road into Greville Street. Head up the hill and across Hatton Garden. The pub is just ahead on the left corner.

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nearby attraction(s):

Sir John Soane's Museum (640m)

St. Paul's Cathedral (940m)

Aldwych Theatre (950m)

picture of King of Diamonds
This used to be a traditional (if grotty) boozer, but it's been refurbed within an inch of its life. It's become a weird mixture of stripped floors, dance music on the box, decent beers including Hoegaarden, Leffe, Staropramen and a selection of Belgian beers in bottles. A recent addition is a Friday afternoon barbecue - as good a reason for not going back to work as any!

reviewed:
18/5/2007
reviewed by septic

pub features:(click on an icon to see an explanation)

beer garden or outdoor seating available - click for explanationterrace and tables on pavement
pool table(s) available- click for explanationtwo pool tables
separate restaurant - click for explanationbarbecue

second opinion:

posted by NotEasilyRiled - Monday 13th October, 2008, 3:59pm
Had a weird experience in this pub. I quite rightly got busted trying to eat my own sandwich, which was fair enough (hey, there's a credit crunch y'know)... the guy was a bit short with me when he told me to put it away but hey ho. Then the jumped-up women behind the counter zipped round to give me her own telling off. I said fine, OK, understood. She kept going on & on. Point is.. I got busted, I accepted that... but the woman laboured it & tried to turn it into some kind of stern telling off. I felt like I was at school! The funny thing is, I think I was one of 2 customers in the whole pub. Is it good business to overeact that way to a paying customer? Hey ho... I will never go there again & neither will my large group of Friday lunchtime drinking buddies.
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