Posts by Glynn Davis

Tucked away on a side street near King’s Cross is a lovely little pub called the King Charles I that I’ve been irregularly visiting for many years to enjoy the superior quality of its beer. A recent visit involved a couple of pints of perfectly served cask pale ale, followed by the same beer that…

Exploration. I am partial to exploring English market towns in the Welsh Marches with their black-and-white timber framed houses, the suggestion of the quiet passage of history, the shop-fronts, and the passing vans drum-rolled with the names of Joneses and Evanses whose descendants came from a different place. I am also partial to pubs in…

Approaching the dour former Quaker Meeting House alongside Chelmsford train station, there is little indication of the stunning interior that will greet you when you cross the threshold. The open plan, double-height structure houses a floor-to-ceiling back-bar and mezzanine level encircling the entire building that puts you right in among the giant lobster pot-like lampshades…

It’s a long way from Mechelen to Malaga but I’m happy with my glass of Het Anker’s Charles V Rouge Rubis as I sit at the counter in El Rincón Del Cervecero, a compact bar/bottle shop in the up-and-coming Malaga neighbourhood of Soho (or has it already arrived?). It’s bittersweet in its approach to the…

Collaborations have become an established feature of the beer industry in recent years but the latest tie-up is particularly special as it brings together the national brewery of the Czech Republic with an award winning Derbyshire-based operator to create Czech Mates lager. When Budvar was looking for a partner for its first of a planned…

Having walked across muddy fields for the previous hour from Foxton train station, it was very welcoming to push open the shiny red door of the Queen’s Head within the village of Newton in Cambridgeshire at 5pm – official evening opening time. Unlike many pubs, it chooses to stick with the old opening times –…

Since arriving in London from Yorkshire to work in the City in the late 1980s I’ve navigated my way around the capital by pubs. One of the first areas I investigated was the smart enclave of Belgravia and one of my favourite pubs remains The Grenadier, which I’d just visited before I read The London…

Barnes might only be a mere ten miles from my house but it represents quite a trek across London, so I very rarely find myself in that part of town. But when I heard about the return of The Great Sausage Roll Off after its two-year break during the pandemic, I knew I had to…