The Freemasons Arms, Covent Garden - pub details
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Address: 81-82 Longacre, London, WC2E 9NG [map] [gmap]
Tel: 0871 951 1000 (ref 5069) - calls cost 10p per minute plus network extras
Covent Garden (0.1 miles), Holborn (0.2 miles), Leicester Square (0.4 miles)
London Charing Cross (0.5 miles), City Thameslink (0.9 miles), Farringdon (0.9 miles)
Brewery: Shepherd Neame
Pub facilities/features:
- Sky TV, Big screen
- Fruit machines
- Food served, Real ale
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> Current user rating: 6.3/10 (rated by 65 users)
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user reviews of the Freemasons Arms, Covent Garden
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| Standard West End pub. The £4 average pint grows ever nearer, and with such a mark up surely they could do something about the battered old tables and the dilapidated toilets. Okay if you're passing but nothing out of the ordinary. djw - 30 Jan 2012 00:32 |
| Not a bad boozer, though it does get busy....Spitfire is kept well and worth supping... you can also buy a freemasons songbook from behind the bar...though what's in it is beyond me..a function room upstairs and plenty of seating downstairs.. recommended d.franks - 15 Dec 2011 20:54 |
| I'm often irritated by reviews here that sound like they would be read by Stephen Fry with an arched eyebrow. Full of phrases Iike 'we found ourselves in need of further libation' and 'we took the landlords blush nose as an unmistakeable invitation to imbibe'. They inform us of nothing. For instance, this pub - the Freemasons Arms. The reviews below mention nothing of The Robots. The place is crammed full of them, and you cant fail to notice them. I can only conclude from the collective and selective blindness, that the reviews below were written by The Robots, with the full knowlege and co-operation of the cyber-Landlord. Anyway, I must admit that they can justifiably claim the title of 'best pint of Fosters drunk before 11.30am in London'. After that time the amber nectar wanes as the sun approaches its noonday zenith, and as any schoolboy will attest, the speed of the earth's rotation at latitudes above the Tropic of Cancer do the Fosters waters no favours at all. Like the Guiness drinker's lament in Lagos, the brew does not travel well. The cyborg Landlord accidentally told me a secret when some of his circuitries were malfunctioning in the July heat. "Dont bother with any of the Ales" he said in a harsh digital warble. "All the pumps are filled with Fosters". He then went on to parody the Paul Hogan Fosters commercials of the 1980s for the amusement of the other Robots and locals. "Can you tell me way to Cockfosters". I've never heard a Robot impersonate a Chinese tourist, but all I can say is no one was laughing. A notable piece of trivia to bore fellow Robots and drinker - This pub claims to be the first meeting place of Andy Bell and Vince Clarke who went on to dominate the world in the late 80s/early 90's with their brand of bender-beat synth pop. Legend has it that Jimmy Somerville was Clarke's intended 1st choice of singer and Somerville arrived early for the meeting. Bell at the time was working behind the bar, and duly spiked Somerville's Snakebite with blackcurrant. Somerville's blackcurrant allergy instantly flared up and he staggered outside and threw up in a policeman's helmet. (Or on his helmet). Bell innocently waited for Clarke's arrival and the rest is history. I can also recommend the Scotch Eggs senberbex - 18 Nov 2011 10:35 |
| Right on the Covent Garden tourist trail and surrounded by office workers so it often gets uncomfortably busy, but The Freemasons is an inviting little Shepherd Neame pub if you can catch it during one of its quieter periods. Shows the sport and has a few bits of football memorabilia dotted about. In fact it claims to be the birthplace of The Football Association and the meeting venue where the rules of the game were first drawn up in 1863. But this could equally have been The Freemasons Tavern, a pub now long gone that stood on the site of the New Connaught Rooms a few hundred yards away on Great Queen Street. Nobody seems to know for sure. So there you are - something to bore your fellow drinkers with over a Spitfire. rob1981 - 24 Mar 2011 19:56 |
| Popped in this pub for the first the other day and was mightly impressed with both the service and the atmosphere. The barmaids were were especially friendly and attentive to the patrons. I tried some food and although it was typically British, it was very good value for money. This was the evening of the cup finals and as a Tottenham supporter, I was glad to see that the Brummies won. Will deffo be back again. vince5177 - 28 Feb 2011 19:11 |
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