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Tucked just off Leicester Square, this is a fairly pleasant and not too busy pub, which is a vast improvement on the nearby Yates's or All Bar One. Despite its location, it doesn't quite quite as many tourists and revellers as you'd expect.

It has at least three real ales and at a visit in 2007 had Everard's Sundancer which is a very pleasant light coloured summer ale. On a March 2008 visit, they had London Pride, Bombardier, Abbot Ale and Elgood's Cambridge Bitter ales, as well as Budvar and Leffe (and the other usual lagers), on tap. (They were also at this time advertising an upcoming ale festival on that visit, with six ales on each week over a period of two months.)

There is a big cafe style awning at the front with halogen heaters for the smokers.

They show sport, but not too intrusively. The pub menu is fairly standard (burgers, sausages and mash, nachos, sandwiches, etc.), though they have a print-out of daily specials attached.

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Last visited by Ewan, Jo and other Tube Walkers, 22 March 2008.
OS X co-ord: 529791 OS Y co-ord: 180780 (Latitude: 51.510538 Longitude: -0.129470)
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