A superb, hugely popular characterful pub on Bear Street near Leicester Square, bearing a fine old heraldic name, with good ales, good food and a warm welcome
The Bear and Staff holds twenty-five hundred and seventy-one reviews and a 4.4 – a strong score on a truly enormous sample – and it is a genuine gem near Leicester Square: a superb, hugely popular characterful pub on Bear Street, bearing a fine old heraldic name, with good ales, good food and a warm welcome.
The Leicester Square pub
The Bear and Staff is a genuinely superb, hugely popular, characterful pub – a proper, handsome, well-placed treasure, on Bear Street near Leicester Square. There is real character here – the characterful pub, the Leicester Square setting, the handsome charm. It is a genuinely handsome, characterful pub – a real, well-placed spot, on Bear Street just off Leicester Square (in the heart of the West End) – a real, superb, characterful, welcoming pub. There is genuine character and charm to it – the characterful pub, the Leicester Square setting, the handsome charm. It is a wonderfully characterful, welcoming, popular pub – a genuine, superb characterful gem, a real treasure near Leicester Square (long said to have counted a young Charlie Chaplin among its visitors). There is real character and charm to it – the characterful pub, the Leicester Square setting, the handsome charm. The Prat’s desk salutes it – the characterful pub of Leicester Square.
The heraldic name
The Bear and Staff carries a genuinely fine, historic, heraldic old name. There is real history to this – the heraldic name, the storied badge, the characterful heritage. Its name harks back to the “Bear and Ragged Staff” – a genuinely storied old heraldic device (the ancient badge of the great Earls of Warwick, one of the most famous emblems in all English heraldry) – a genuinely historic, characterful, storied pub name (which gives Bear Street itself its name). There is genuine history and character to it – the heraldic name, the storied badge, the characterful heritage. It is a wonderfully fine, historic, heraldic pub name – conjuring the great storied age of English heraldry, giving the pub a real sense of proud, storied heritage. There is real history and character to it – the heraldic name, the storied badge, the characterful heritage. The Prat’s naming desk delights in it – the pub with a fine old heraldic name.
The ale, food and welcome
The Bear and Staff does the essentials of a great pub genuinely well – good ale, good food, and a warm welcome – to a truly enormous following. There is real quality to this – the good ale, the good food, the warm welcome, the characterful character. As a fine Nicholson’s pub, it keeps good, well-kept ales, serves good British pub food, and offers a warm, friendly welcome, amid its handsome, characterful setting. There is genuine quality and warmth to it – the good ale, the good food, the warm welcome. Its strong 4.4 across a truly enormous sample speaks to a genuinely superb, characterful, hugely popular pub – the ale, the food, the warm welcome, all superbly done, to a truly vast crowd. There is real quality and character to it – the good ale, the good food, the warm welcome. Combined with its fine heraldic name and its Leicester Square character, it makes the Bear and Staff a genuine gem – the characterful pub, the heraldic name, the good ale, the warm welcome. Its strong score across a truly enormous sample confirms it – a genuinely superb, hugely popular pub. There is real character, history and quality in the whole thing – the characterful Leicester Square pub, the fine old heraldic name, the good ale, the good food, the warm welcome. It is a genuine gem near Leicester Square – superb, characterful, well-placed, and hugely popular, a real Bear Street treasure.
Between its Leicester Square character, its fine heraldic name, and its good ale, food and warm welcome, the Bear and Staff is a genuine gem near Leicester Square. Its strong score across a truly enormous sample marks it as a genuinely superb and hugely popular pub. The Prat’s desk enjoys a good ale near Leicester Square, and raises an appreciative glass to the Bear and Staff.
The pub
A strong, hugely popular pub doing a good 4.4 across a truly enormous sample – the Bear and Staff, a characterful pub on Bear Street near Leicester Square, with a fine old heraldic name.
Verdict
Strong, hugely popular, and genuinely characterful – the Bear and Staff, a characterful pub of Leicester Square with a fine heraldic name, good ales and a warm welcome.
Enjoy a good ale at the Bear and Staff on Bear Street near Leicester Square – a superb, hugely popular characterful pub bearing a fine old heraldic name.
Alan Nafzger was born in Lubbock, Texas, the son Swiss immigrants. He grew up on a dairy in Windthorst, north central Texas. He earned degrees from Midwestern State University (B.A. 1985) and Texas State University (M.A. 1987). University College Dublin (Ph.D. 1991). Dr. Nafzger has entertained and educated young people in Texas colleges for 37 years. Nafzger is best known for his dark novels and experimental screenwriting. His best know scripts to date are Lenin’s Body, produced in Russia by A-Media and Sea and Sky produced in The Philippines in the Tagalog language. In 1986, Nafzger wrote the iconic feminist western novel, Gina of Quitaque. He currently lives in Holloway, North London. Contact: [email protected]
