Windsor Castle, Marble Arch

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location:

Marble Arch

address:

27-29 Crawford Place, W1H 4LQ

phone:

0871 258 7703*
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nearest stations:

Edgware Road London Underground station
(200m) - zone 1

Marylebone railway station London Underground station
(480m) - zone 1

Marble Arch London Underground station
(720m) - zone 1

Paddington railway station London Underground station
(740m) - zone 1

Baker Street London Underground station
(750m) - zone 1

how to find it:

From Edgware Road (District, Circle, Hammersmith and City lines): Leave the station into Chapel Street and across the road to the left. Turn right at the corner into Old Marylebone Road, cross the street and turn left into Homer Row. Walk to the end of Homer Row and turn right into Crawford Place, the pub is about 50m further on, on the same side of the road as you. Baker Street: Cross the road from the tube (take the pedestrian tunnel if it's open) for Baker Street. Proceed down Baker Street and take the second right into York Street. Cross Gloucester Place and head down Crawford Street. The pub is at the end of the street just past the Larrik pub.

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nearby attraction(s):

Wallace Collection (870m)

Madame Tussauds (870m)

Selfridges & Co (990m)

Street View - click to see the area around the Windsor Castle

This is certainly one of the oddest pubs you'll ever drink in and it's a real treat. Once inside, you encounter an Aladdin's cave of royal/celebrity photos (including a shrine to George Best), glass cabinets and generally enough gee-gaws to fill every gift shop in Blackpool, Brighton and Bournemouth. Even the ceiling is covered in plates in display cases. As for the beers, there's not a huge selection - just as well as the pub is intoxicating enough in itself - but there's a selection of decent, hand-pumped ales and a couple of ciders. It's a friendly place too and its quirky reputation means it's on the itinerary of many a tourist, but an influx of newcomers does nothing to upset the ambience. The Windsor Castle also offers pretty decent Thai food, with food served in the bar or the separate restaurant upstairs (and you can also get good old fish 'n' chips). And, if all that isn't enough for you, the pub also is home to the Handlebar Club - which is probably why it has Guy Gibson's log book in a display case by the bar open at his log for the Dambusters raid. History, celebrity, royalty, eccentricity and a decent pint all in the same spot - excellent.

reviewed:
09/07/2009

Eating at the Windsor Castle ... we last ate here on 10/12/2008

The Windsor Castle offers pretty decent and well-priced Thai food (as well as some traditional pub faves) - eat in the upstairs restaurant or in the pub.

- quality