The Bowler, Clerkenwell

pub details:

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location:

Clerkenwell

address:

32 Bowling Green Lane, EC1R 0BJ

phone:

0871 258 6474*
* calls cost 10p/minute, click here for more about 0871 numbers.

nearest stations:

Farringdon Railway station London Underground station
(490m) - zone 1

Chancery Lane London Underground station
(700m) - zone 1

Barbican Railway station London Underground station
(830m) - zone 1

Angel London Underground station
(880m) - zone 1

City Thameslink Railway station
(960m)

how to find it:

From Farringdon tube, turn right and then right at Farringdon Road. Go up Farringdon Road and keep your eye out for the turning on your right for Bowling Green Lane. Once you're on it you can't miss the pub

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nearby attraction(s):

Sadler's Wells Theatre (550m)

Host Gallery (850m)

Sir John Soane's Museum (1Km)

This site has seen a few pubs over the years, one of which was the Surprise, a Brakspear pub. There's still a Brakspear beer on tap at the Bowler, though that's one of the few links to the past here. No surprise then, to find this one following in the footsteps of The Eagle (and The Gunmakers, The Easton, The Green, The Coach & Horses etc etc) as another Clerkenwell watering hole reborn as a gastropub. At the Bowler though, there's a clear demarcation between bar and restaurant area, so that diners and drinkers needn't get in each others way. Oh, and the CDs aired on our visit were a cut above your usual 'Now That's What I Call Gastro' compilations. It's not a bad place all in all, but does this neck of the woods really need another gastropub? And can this one flutter its eyelashes enough so that the Guardian - based just around the corner of course - will put in a good word about it in its food pages? We'll wait and see.

reviewed:
02/10/2005