Posts by Glynn Davis

For a few weeks some years back, I worked in Blackfriars and would walk to Holborn tube as my route home because it took me past The Seven Stars in Carey Street, behind the Royal Courts of Justice. After only a couple of nights of stop-offs in this lovely compact pub, the landlady had named…

When visiting the hybrid bar/shop Indiebeer in Holloway Road in north London early one Saturday evening before Christmas with my 18-year-old daughter, we had to navigate around various prams and buggies as a large group celebrated a young child’s birthday. My overriding response was that it was good to see the independent venue run by…

Competitive socialising is something I’ve harboured reservations about for a number of years on the back of the flood of money that has gone into the category to inevitably fund some rather dubious concepts. This has led to saturation in some sub-categories. On top of this, there is the problem in the UK of there…

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas. It certainly was in The Audley public house in London’s Mayfair last week. When wandering in around lunchtime, I was greeted by a row of small chalkboards on various tables stating “reserved @ 2:30pm”.  It is one of the most annoying aspects of pub-going at this time…