Sekforde Arms, Clerkenwell

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location:

Clerkenwell

address:

34 Sekforde Street, EC1R 0HA

phone:

0871 258 7298*
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nearest stations:

Farringdon railway station London Underground station
(410m) - zone 1

Barbican railway station London Underground station
(610m) - zone 1

Chancery Lane London Underground station
(780m) - zone 1

City Thameslink railway station
(870m)

Angel London Underground station
(920m) - zone 1

how to find it:

Leave Farringdon station and turn left and left again and head up Turnmill Street. Go up to Clerkenwell Road, cross it and head into Clerkenwell Green, just in front of you. Turn right, walk through the green and then turn left into Sekforde Street, keeping the church on your left. The pub is just up the road, on the corner on your right at the junction with Woodbridge Street.

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nearby attraction(s):

Sadler's Wells Theatre (590m)

Host Gallery (600m)

Museum of London (890m)

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Sekforde Arms is a very pleasant Young's pub in an old residential area just off Clerkenwell Road. Of course, it's all residential round here nowadays, with all the warehouse conversions and new apartment blocks going up, but the Sekforde Arms is no mere arriviste - we'd hazard a guess that it's been like this round here from very early in the 19th century. The service is friendly, the beer very well-kept and the food unpretentious (and with an unpretentious price tag too). This pub fits very comfortably with its surroundings, it's a genuine local and outside the immediate area hardly anyone seems to know about it. It can get busy, with local workers and regulars, but they tend to be an easy-going lot, so we can't say it really detracts from the experience. Definitely one we'd recommend looking out for. Let's just hope it doesn't get the shortened name and gutted interior that a lot of other Young's pubs - excuse us - "lifestyle bars" are getting.

reviewed:
02/03/2009