Queen's Head, King's Cross

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location:

King's Cross

address:

66 Acton Street, WC1X 9NB

phone:

0871 258 5009*
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nearest stations:

King's Cross Thameslink railway station
(260m)

King's Cross St. Pancras Eurostar terminal railway station London Underground station
(430m) - zone 1

Russell Square London Underground station
(740m) - zone 1

Angel London Underground station
(980m) - zone 1

Euston railway station London Underground station
(1Km) - zone 1

how to find it:

From Kings Cross: Cross Euston Road, avoiding the junkies, prostitutes and other assorted weirdoes and proceed down Grays Inn Road, past the Scala. Walk down to the second left and turn into Acton Street, the pub is a little way along on your left. From Chancery Lane: Take the Grays Inn Road exit from the station and turn right into it. Walk up Grays Inn Road for about ten minutes and turn right into Acton Street, the pub is a little way along on your left.

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nearby attraction(s):

British Library (600m)

London Canal Museum (640m)

Sadler's Wells Theatre (860m)

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An excellent, solid, local. Generally good beers are on tap - though they only had Adnams Bitter on last time we were in - and a decent mixed clientele but none too crowded. The music can be a bit loud, but it tends to add to the atmosphere. The menu is extensive and cheap and the portions huge - the home-made Steak and Guinness pie sounds fantastic - and the service is excellent. It does get a little quiet during the day, which makes it a good place to meet people near King's Cross when you don't want a formal meeting. And, whilst you wouldn't necessarily make a detour to admire the architecture - the pub is basically a hollowed out Victorian shell with some of it's original splendour still intact. That said, the facade is still in good nick and jolly handsome it is too and there is excellent tile work on the bits of the original pub that still remain inside. Good show.

reviewed:
18/09/2008