The Porcupine Review: The Characterful Pub of Charing Cross Road | A superb, hugely popular characterful pub on Charing Cross Road near Leicester Square, bearing a fine, unusual old name, with good ales, good cheer and a warm welcome
The Garrick Arms Review: The Theatreland Pub Named for a Great Actor | A superb, hugely popular pre-theatre pub on Charing Cross Road near Leicester Square, named by way of the Garrick Theatre for the great actor David Garrick, with good ales, good food and a warm welcome
The Bear and Staff Review: The Bear Is Not Metaphorical | Charing Cross Road’s corner pub carries a name from the days when a bear on a chain was an evening’s entertainment
The Porcupine Review: Charing Cross Road’s Last Ordinary Pub | Three thousand reviews, 4.5 stars, and absolutely nothing worth writing about, which is now the rarest thing on this street
Larry’s Review: A Cocktail Bar in a Victorian Coal Vault | Beneath the National Portrait Gallery, in a space built in 1896 to hold coal, there is now live jazz
Garrick Arms Review: Named for the Man Who Made Acting Respectable | David Garrick dragged the English stage out of the gutter, and now there is a pub, a theatre, a club, and a street
Montagu Pyke Review: The Cinema Pioneer Ruined in a Single Day | A Wetherspoon named after a cinema mogul who faced the Old Bailey, the bankruptcy court, and the divorce court all on one terrible morning
