Walkers A Great Success

[drplokta]

Let me join the many people who have acclaimed Walkers. While not perfect in every way (no cider, no sausages and a few people had long waits for their food), it was a very pleasant and welcoming pub, with a good private room for our use and very reasonable prices (quite ridiculously reasonable in some cases; flickgc told me that gin & tonic was £2, which I thought was fairly cheap, but when I tried to pay £2 for the next one I bought the barmaid gave me £1 back).

The turnout was very good for the first time in a new pub, and I hope it will rise further as we settle down there. It will get a bit crowded if we have more people than last night, but I expect we can expand upstairs later in the evening, and outside in the summer. Certainly, it can hardly get more crowded than the One Tun or the Wellington were -- we may have been a little spoiled by the amount of space available in the Florence Nightingale.

In an interesting historical note, when the old White Horse was demolished, its license was transferred to a new pub built on the same block -- which is Walkers. So 52 years after we left it, we've gone back to the London Circle's first long-term home.

Finally, many thanks to Paul Treadaway for putting in the legwork to find it, and for sticking his head above the parapet when so many previously have been shot down.

Comments

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

Good! So, this (http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?client=public&X=531500&Y=181500&gride=531269&gridn=181428&scale=10000&coordsys=gb&db=pc&lang=&inmap=&table=&ovtype=&localinfosel=&local=&kw=&srec=0&mapsize=small&db=pc&rt=) is where the White Horse was? Interesting!

[nolley.livejournal.com]

> Finally, many thanks to Paul Treadaway for putting in the legwork to find
> it, and for sticking his head above the parapet when so many previously have
> been shot down.

Hear, hear. Well done Paul a very nice place to meet and a couple of snugs just big enough to hold those intimate meeting where people can yell their socks off at each other without bothering the rest of us.

[aca.livejournal.com]

Wow, sounds fab! Might even encourage me and The Other Thursday Night to come along. Not that would be a revelation! (Bearing in mind I've not been since the first move to the Dead Nurse!).

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

It's pretty good - even the soft drinks aren't unreasonably expensive, and someone I was talking to got a bottle of wine for four quid or so. And the food is good, and also very reasonably priced.

[aca.livejournal.com]

The all important question, I suppose, how is the quality and selection of the ales?

[bohemiancoast.livejournal.com]

Their regular beer is Tetleys, which is perfectly drinkable. They got in Adnams for us; it was lovely and we drank it all by about 8pm. They're talking about getting two different firkins as guests next time.

[aca.livejournal.com]

So not a regular Ale boozer, but willing to accomodate. Perhaps we'll see you next month! :)

[the-maenad.livejournal.com]

Corner of Fetter Lane and Norwich Street, yes. I was the last ever fan to drink there, circa 1989, either the day it closed or the day before, I forget which.

Tetley Time

[rwgray.livejournal.com]

I have fond memories of fresh, well-kept Tetley's from student days. Haven't seen it since. Even a visit to Leeds was a radical disappointment when, far from cask-conditioned etc., it was blasted through twin nozzles with a proud guarantee of glass-filling time... old rant, sorry... um anyway this new place sounds good enough to get me to the Tun, and I've never even bothered attending before!! (Hoorah.) Now, where's that A-Z...