Britannia, Borough

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location:

Borough

address:

44 Kipling Street, SE1 3RU

phone:

0871 258 7819*
* calls cost 10p/minute, click here for more about 0871 numbers.

nearest stations:

London Bridge Railway station London Underground station
(450m) - zone 1

Borough London Underground station
(470m) - zone 1

London Bridge City Pier River Thames boat service
(650m)

Tower Millennium Pier River Thames boat service
(910m)

Bankside pier River Thames boat service
(1Km)

how to find it:

From Borough tube, cross the road over to Long Lane and the thirds turning on the left should be Kipling Street. The pub is a little way up on the left.

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nearby attraction(s):

The Fashion and Textile Museum (390m)

The Old Operating Theatre, Museum & Herb Garret (420m)

London Dungeons (480m)

Street View - click to see the area around the Britannia

The Britannia is a charming and sympathetically renovated pub around the back of Guy's Hospital. Despite the stripped floorboards, a couch or two and a scattering of statuettes (including Betty Boop), this still feels like a proper pub. Good lighting, quality music and great service are the first things which grab your attention, but the positives don't end here. Accompanying the reasonable choice of ale on tap and some decent grub is a simply staggering list of whiskies. We know a number of pubs in London offer a good selection of whiskies, but the blackboards here indicate that more than 100 whiskies are on offer, even if the number of bottles on the shelves behind the bar seem somewhat short of this figure. Despite Borough not being short on excellent places to drink, this relaxed and cosy pub is still one of the better in the area and happily fulfils the description of 'hidden gem'.

reviewed:
29/04/2009