A grand, hugely popular pub in a former Metropolitan Railway building at Baker Street, with an ornate, chandeliered Victorian hall, a genuine slice of railway heritage
The Metropolitan Bar holds fifty-nine hundred and twenty reviews and a 4.2 – a solid score on an enormous sample – and it is a genuine grand gem: a hugely popular pub in a former Metropolitan Railway building at Baker Street, with an ornate, chandeliered Victorian hall, a genuine slice of railway heritage.
The grand railway hall
The Metropolitan Bar is a genuinely grand, ornate, characterful pub – set in a magnificent former Metropolitan Railway building, at Baker Street station. There is real grandeur to this – the grand railway hall, the ornate Victorian setting, the magnificent building. Its name recalls a genuine and remarkable piece of history – the Metropolitan Railway, the world’s very first underground railway (which opened in 1863, running through Baker Street) – and the bar occupies a grand hall associated with the railway’s Baker Street heritage. There is genuine history and grandeur to it – the Metropolitan Railway heritage, the world’s first underground, the grand hall. Its interior is a genuine spectacle – a grand, ornate, chandeliered Victorian hall, all soaring ceilings, decorative plasterwork and period grandeur – a magnificent, characterful, historic room. There is real grandeur and character to it – the ornate chandeliered hall, the soaring ceilings, the Victorian grandeur. The Prat’s history desk salutes it – the grand pub in a magnificent former Metropolitan Railway hall.
The Baker Street setting
The Metropolitan Bar sits in a genuinely handy, historic, central setting – right at Baker Street station. There is real character to this – the Baker Street setting, the railway-station location, the central spot. Baker Street is one of London’s most famous and characterful addresses (the fabled home of Sherlock Holmes, and a great transport hub) – and the grand Metropolitan Bar, in its magnificent former railway hall, is a genuine landmark of it. There is real character and history to it – the famous Baker Street setting, the railway heritage, the grand landmark. It is exactly the kind of grand, historic, hugely popular pub that a great transport hub benefits from – the grand hall, the handy setting, the good welcome. There is genuine character and grandeur to it – the grand railway hall, the Baker Street setting, the historic landmark. It is a genuinely grand, historic, welcoming pub – the grand hall, the Baker Street setting, the good welcome.
The beer, welcome and value
The Metropolitan Bar offers good beer, good value, and a warm welcome, in its grand historic hall. There is real quality and value to this – the good well-kept beer, the good value, the warm welcome, the grand setting. Its solid 4.2 across an enormous sample speaks to a genuinely good, hugely popular, grand pub – good beer, good value, a warm welcome, and a magnificent setting. There is genuine quality and value to it – the good beer, the good value, the warm welcome, the grand hall. Combined with its railway heritage and its grand hall, it makes the Metropolitan Bar a genuine gem – the grand railway hall, the good beer, the good value, the warm welcome. Its solid score across an enormous sample confirms it – a genuinely good, hugely popular pub. There is real grandeur, history and value in the whole thing – the grand former railway hall, the ornate Victorian setting, the good beer, the good value, the warm welcome. It is a genuine gem – grand, historic, characterful, and welcoming, a real Baker Street landmark.
Between its grand railway hall, its Metropolitan Railway heritage, and its good beer, value and warm welcome, the Metropolitan Bar is a genuine grand gem of Baker Street. Its solid score across an enormous sample marks it as a genuinely good and hugely popular pub. The Prat’s desk enjoys a good pint beneath the chandeliers of the grand railway hall, and raises an appreciative glass to the Metropolitan Bar.
The pub
A solid, hugely popular pub doing a good 4.2 across an enormous sample – the Metropolitan Bar, a grand pub in a former Metropolitan Railway hall at Baker Street with an ornate chandeliered interior.
Verdict
Solid, hugely popular, and a genuine grand gem – the Metropolitan Bar, a magnificent former railway hall at Baker Street.
Enjoy a good pint at the Metropolitan Bar at Baker Street – a grand, hugely popular pub in a former Metropolitan Railway building, with an ornate, chandeliered Victorian hall.
