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location:
address:
95 Fleet Street, EC4Y 1DH
phone:
0871 984 2729*
* calls cost 10p/minute, click here for more about 0871 numbers.
nearest stations:
City Thameslink 
(270m)
Blackfriars 
(280m) - zone 1
Blackfriars Millennium Pier 
(380m)
St Paul's
(560m) - zone 1
Chancery Lane
(630m) - zone 1
how to find it:
Leave the tube and head up Blackfriars road (away from the river) towards Ludgate circus. Turn left into Fleet Street and the pub is a little way up on your left.
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nearby attraction(s):
St. Paul's Cathedral (490m)
Museum of London (730m)
Globe Theatre (890m)
A bona fide classic - this pub could be literally anywhere. Busy Fleet Street evaporates the moment you step through the front door, the back door opens onto the courtyard of the gorgeous St. Brides church. The pub in between is a dark little warren of snug homely places to sip a pint and relax (Timothy Taylor's Landlord on draught - apparently Madonna's favourite tipple now she's a flat cap wearing cor blimey Londoner) - our favourite spot is under the stairs. If you narrow your eyes you can almost detect the layout of the Georgian house this used to be - plonking a bar, a fag machine and a golf video game in the middle of the old back room seems to be about all they've done to update it since. And the atmosphere is excellent owing to the fact the people you're in there with also deliberately chose not to go to a wine bar.
24/01/2008
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