The Lord Aberconway, Liverpool Street - pub details
Address: 73 Old Broad St, Liverpool Street, London, EC2M 1QS [map] [gmap]
Tel: 0871 951 1000 (ref 3898) - calls cost 10p per minute plus network extras
Liverpool Street (0.1 miles), Moorgate (0.3 miles), Bank (0.4 miles)
Bank (0.4 miles), Tower Gateway (0.6 miles)
London Liverpool Street (0.2 miles), Moorgate (0.3 miles), Fenchurch Street (0.5 miles)
Chain: Nicholson's
Pub facilities/features:
- TV
- Fruit machines
- Food served, Real ale
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> Current user rating: 6.1/10 (rated by 38 users)
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Kings Arms, Liverpool Street (0.0 miles), One Of 2, Old Broad Street (0.1 miles), Railway Tavern, Liverpool Street (0.1 miles), White Hart, Bishopsgate (0.1 miles), George, Liverpool Street (0.1 miles) - see more nearby pubs
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| So that's what drinking Fosters does for you!!! mcroyal - 10 Aug 2011 18:19 |
| "First, catch your hare", boomed the landlord. His steely glare never wavered as I approached the bar. The pub was deserted except for me and him. It was a June Friday at 6 o'clock. I know it was 6 o'clock as I could see the dustmen tearing the last of of the lead from the roof of The Guildhall in the City of London, ready to trade it in for admittance to their 8 o'clock 'Muffins and Monkey' show. I digress. "First catch you hare" the landlord boomed once again. He pointed to the blackboard and all was enlightenment. The kitchen special was of course, Mrs Beetson's fabled 'Jugged Hare' and famously, the first line of the recipe exhorts the cook to 'first catch your hare'. I dashed out into Bishopsgate and immediately spied the ears of a dominant male bounding behind a bollard at the junction with Houndsditch. Several hours, and a large man-hunt (with a bloodthirsty, torch-weilding mob and many greyhounds) later - and I had my quarry. The hare fought, lied and endured interrogation bravely but eventually we broke him and he confessed to 'grevious exactions'. He agreed to come back to the Lord Aberconway and almost cheefully leapt into the landlords waiting pot. He even agreed to peel onions and carrots as we waited for the waters to boil. "I suppose you have no jug either?" The landlord spat. "What manner of knave be you, sir?" He was hasty, for I threw a pot before his eyes, my potters hands worked their glassy magic to create a form of feminine splendour. Within 2 hours the kiln had baked the finest jug seen outside the Walls of Athena and the landlord. was eating his words. "Something to drink?" He asked, as I raised the hare up on a hook to hang for 2 weeks. "Fosters" I replied. He took the bucket and made to go to the well to draw up the Fosters but I stopped him. "No, Sir. I have been insulted, and I will not buy wares from you." He guffawed contemptuously. "How then, will you enjoy the refresments so desired of Messers Fosters?" "I am in no rush, churl" I rejoindered. "You see the hare hanging amongst the pulleys and shafts of sunlight? But I looked, and the hare was no more. A can of Fosters swung timoursly and forlorny, peirced on a rusty hook. Be on your guard traveller - dark plots abound within this hostelry, as this account fulsomely attests. I declare that I be of sound mind on this day the seventeenth of june in the 11th year of the 21st century of Our Lord. senberbex - 17 Jun 2011 17:43 |
| fancied a change on friday night so popped in here on friday about 9pm. This is probably the best time to visit as there was plenty olf room although there were the left overs of others who clearly had been drinking since 5pm. Whist clearing glasses etc the duty manager was simply pushing them gently out of the way! Doom bar at £2.65 tonight was very tempting and a pint of Punk IPA (not sure of the brewer) but at 6% was superb - £3.15. I'm happy to add this one to my list of pubs in this area. ButchEgg - 17 Oct 2010 16:09 |
| A stone's throw away from Liverpool Street Station and Bishopsgate, is The Lord Aberconway, a Nicholson's pub that forms part of their "Classic Pubs" chain. Those who are familiar with the Nicholson's brand will know what to expect here - a largely reconstructed traditional pub interior featuring bare boards, much wood panelling, a high ceiling and some ornate woodwork. Of particular note in The Lord Aberconway is a pleasant, more comfortable upstairs mezzanine bar and, on the ground floor, some railway carriage style drinking booths that afford a degree of privacy so often overlooked by big pub chains nowadays. Seating is the usual mixture of stools and more comfortable leather banquettes. The normal Nicholson's framed information panel tells us that the pub was rebuilt in the 19th Century and was named after the last chairman of the old Metropolitan Railway. Memorabilia - framed posters, pictures etc - inside the pub is disappointingly limited. The monument to the Great Fire of London is close by and it is alleged that the pub is haunted by spirits of victims of the fire. It's not a particularly large pub, but the crush can be partly avoided by drinking on the narrow pavement outside, although given its narrowness and the volume of people passing by, I'm surprised that this is allowed. I would imagine that the pub can be uncomfortably busy towards the latter part of the week. Beers on were TT Landlord, Fullers London Pride and Summer Ale, Sharps Doom Bar and Black Sheep's Golden Sheep. Guest beer of the week was Leeds Brewery's Midnight Bell, a strongish tasty dark mild which tasted very moreish - £ 2.95p. Somewhat surprisingly, hardly anyone else seemed to be drinking it on my recent early evening visit. This isn't a must visit pub by any stretch of the imagination, but I'd be more than happy to drop in again when next in the area. JohnBonser - 13 Aug 2010 08:42 |
| So I look for the best pub around Liverpool St Station to fit our needs, check the opening times for a Saturday on their own website (Nicholsons) and arrive there in plenty of time, a full hour and a half before their stated closing time. Open the doors and walk in, a bit empty, but walk up to the bar, no-one around. Eventually a girl appears from the back and says we're shut, I explain the website closing time, but She was not to be budged. Now I know this part of town has it's own way of doing things, but we thought that this was a bit off, couldn't even get to the loos. I will mark it on the basis that it p****d us all right off and Nicholsons should get it's house, pubs, website in order. imdownthepub - 27 Jun 2010 12:55 |
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