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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). [http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/comments.shtml/1660/ 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 <i>think</i> 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.
 Now does food until 9:30pm (but not every day - I think Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, not sure about Mondays, and definitely not on Fridays). Usually has four or five of the St Peter's beers on tap, and all the rest in bottles.
Tables can be booked if you aim to turn up at 6pm (or earlier; we booked one from 5pm on a Friday).

St Peter's pub in Clerkenwell. Very small.

Now does food until 9:30pm (but not every day - I think Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, not sure about Mondays, and definitely not on Fridays). Usually has four or five of the St Peter's beers on tap, and all the rest in bottles. Tables can be booked if you aim to turn up at 6pm (or earlier; we booked one from 5pm on a Friday).

Note that it's closed at weekends.

Other reviews:

Opening hours taken from the St Peter's website, May 2007.

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