Randomness Guide to London Menu

St Peter's pub in Clerkenwell. Very small.

It gets very busy and crowded with after-work drinkers; you really need to be there by around 5pm or even earlier if you want to get a seat. There are a couple of tables outside, but they also fill up early. The street it's on is a quiet one, so drinkers spill out onto the pavement and even across the road. Once the place is full, the staff will ask you if you're drinking inside or outside; if you're drinking outside then you get your pint in plastic rather than glass. Tables can be booked if you aim to turn up at 6pm (or earlier; we booked one from 5pm on a Friday).

Usually has four or five of the St Peter's beers on tap, and all the rest in bottles. They also have Aspell's cider on tap (£3.10/pint).

Now does food until 9:30pm (but not every day - I think Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, not sure about Mondays, and definitely not on Fridays). Beer in the Evening comments suggest that the food is rather expensive. Snack-wise, they have what looked like the full range of Tyrrells crisps, and some non-generic-looking pork scratchings (can't remember the brand and didn't try them, but anything has to be better than KP).

The bar staff do a great job of serving people as quickly as they can, but are hampered by the fact that there's only one till, which seems to be a major bottleneck.

Accessibility: the toilets are down a narrow staircase. I think the rest of the pub is on one level apart from one table which is up a few stairs on a mezzanine-type thing, but I forgot to check properly. In the evenings, the smallness and crowdedness make it hard to manouevre even if you're able-bodied.

Note that it's closed at weekends.

Other reviews:

• Beer in the Evening comments
• Ruth's beer sampling record: October 2006, December 2006