Russell Square: Turn right out the tube station on Bernard Street then take the first right into Grenville Street and then left into Guilford Street. Go past the hospital and Lambs Conduit Street is the first right, you'll see the pub on the left-hand side of the road. Holborn: leave by the side exit and turn right up High Holborn. cross the road and take the first left up Red Lion Street. Walk up Red Lion Street, cross the main road and carry straight on up Lamb's Conduit Street. After a short while, you'll see the pub on your right.
Street View - click to see the area around the Lamb
The Lamb is a genial old boozer with lots of Victorian charm - and that's just the locals. This place has been one of the top pubs in London for a long, long time and still it continues to maintain high standards. The beer's good (Young's), the food's pretty decent, it's got some quaint Victorian fixtures and fittings, without it being too olde worlde - it gets the balance just right. The clientele are the genial pub-going type and even the drunks are polite and apologetic, they seem to operate a shift system just to make sure there's always one in. The Lamb is in an easy-to-get-to location, but it's just far enough away from the tourist trails to deter all but the determined and appreciative. Oh, and there's an upstairs function room if you need that kind of thing.
reviewed: 25/03/2009
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posted by MPF2000 - Friday 19th March, 2010, 5:52pm
Went in here a couple of weeks back, on a Wednesday evening about 18:30 with 4 friends for a quick drink straight after work. Although only half-full, after 10 minutes we had still failed to "attract the attention" of either person behind the bar - after being ignored for the umpteenth time in favour of someone coming straight in off the street, we left.
What a complete and utter waste of time - who knows what the beer is like - the utterly rubbish service put paid to finding out....
posted by THZweibel - Saturday 30th January, 2010, 9:46pm
Had a bit of an odd experience in here recently.
Trekked there in the pouring rain from King's Cross on the recommendation of this site.
The place was busy but jovial so we were please to bag a table. Half an hour later (while we were looking through the menu), a staff member dropped a 'reserved' sign on all the tables near us. she moved with such speed that neither me or somebody sitting opposite had chance to query it. A minute or so later she shot past again, announced 'tables reserved' in a very odd dialect and vanished again.
This was at 8pm. not a time you suddenly decide to evict people sat at a table. needless to say we ditched the menu and left swiftly. never to return.
Careless, ignorant staff costing a nice boozer business.
posted by MalcolmScrabster - Wednesday 26th September, 2007, 12:58pm
This is a quality boozer - charming interior, good Young's ales and even the occasional evening of readings in the function room upstairs. As the entry suggests, it even has quality local drunks to add colour. Although on one occasion, an office worker did vomit straight into her empty pint glass which I could really have done without.
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