The Coal Hole, Strand - pub details

Coal Hole
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Address: 91-92 Strand, Strand, London, WC2R 0DW [map] [gmap]

Tel: 0871 951 1000 (ref 813) - calls cost 10p per minute plus network extras

Nearest tube stations Embankment (0.2 miles), Charing Cross (0.2 miles), Covent Garden (0.2 miles)

Nearest train stations London Charing Cross (0.2 miles), London Waterloo (0.7 miles), London Waterloo East (0.7 miles)

Chain: Nicholson's

Pub facilities/features:
Cask Marque accreditation

  • Food served, Real ale
Suggested by Paul on 9 Jul 2002.

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My first visit although I must have passed it a hundred times. Splendid exterior and interior too. Superb beamed ceiling. Beer was fine (I enjoyed Lia Fail from Inveralmond Brewery of Scotland) - it was too early in the day to start on Jaipur!! Bar staff were prompt and efficient and there was a fairly standard Nicholsons food offer available. Not packed when I went but I could imagine that it would be when the tourist season starts in earnest. It probably gets a good trade from commuters as it is near to Charing Cross station. I liked it and will use it again.
mcroyal - 5 Jan 2012 13:04
Went in yesterday not having been there for, heck, 10 years? Quietish when I went in around 4.30 and had a pint of the excellent Jaipur - but was on my second pint before I noted from the list on the wall that it is 5.9% ABV! Changed to something lighter after that. By the time I left around 6.30 it was packed to the seams and standing room only. I know what the last poster means about crowds and enjoyment but it's the same old paradox - if a pub's any good lots of people will want to go to it and it will be full but if you find a place that's got room to hold a dance it's probably a dead-and-alive hole. I might give it a go one weekend, when it may be less busy, since this is clearly a popular post-office destination. So, allin all, a prime boozer.
guayabera - 15 Nov 2011 16:37
Get too crowded to be enjoyable.
rpf1955 - 6 Nov 2011 18:32
A good example of a Nicholson's pub which regularly serves a good pint - tribute, doom and Jaipur seem to always be on and served well. Festival ales also usually on. Slightly more expensive than other Nicholson's but that is what you expect on the Strand. Worth a stop-off on the way from the Harp to the Edgar Wallace.
Swalebeermiester - 29 Aug 2011 13:01
Busy, multilevel Nicholson's pub midway along the Strand. As mentioned below, despite always being packed with tourists, shoppers, theatre crowds, local workers etc, the basement bar is a calm, quiet refuge, with a table usually avaliable.

Nicholson's typical selection of real ales was avaliable, along with the usual vastly overpriced Peroni and, more unusually, draught Kozel, the first time I have come accross this outside Prague.

Always worth a visit if you are in the area.
flashharry1965 - 22 Aug 2011 14:18

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