The Globe, Marylebone

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location:

Marylebone

address:

43 Marylebone Road, NW1 5JY

phone:

0871 258 6188*
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nearest stations:

Baker Street London Underground station
(60m) - zone 1

Marylebone railway station London Underground station
(420m) - zone 1

Regent's Park London Underground station
(730m) - zone 1

Edgware Road London Underground station
(780m) - zone 1

Great Portland Street London Underground station
(920m) - zone 1

how to find it:

Baker Street: When you leave the station, the pub is visible across the road. Cross at the lights or use the subway and you're there.

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nearby attraction(s):

Madame Tussauds (150m)

Wallace Collection (550m)

The Regent's Park (810m)

Street View - click to see the area around the Globe

How prescient of someone to build The Globe in 1735. And how patient to wait a century and a half and more for Baker Street tube to be constructed underneath and thus create the meeting point for Wembley goers just two stops up the Metropolitan line. With the stadium complete this place can switch in a moment from commuters' beer-stop to heavy metal heaven or reds'r'us, depending on the North London schedule. But the place copes. It's unpretentious and businesslike. Dickens, William Pitt (the younger, of course) and Conan Doyle are claimed as past regulars. Decent, honest plain tables and chairs, oldish floorboards and panelling, and well-kept beers make for a pleasant enough West End oasis. There are tables outside for those who want copious carbon monoxide and ear-shattering traffic noise with their beer. It's easy to mock (no it's not really; we work at it)but The Globe has been getting it more or less right for getting on for two centuries and shows no signs of getting it substantially wrong.

reviewed:
08/05/2009