The Princess Louise, Holborn

Spent a lovely evening here last week, sat by the fire (gas, not real).
Started out v busy and almost too crowded, but got to that nice comfortable level of busy-ness by about 8 and stayed that way the rest of the night.
Friendly staff, lots of seats etc (although upstairs was shut for a private function when I was there, which made it a bit more difficult to find a perch), and good booze.

28 Feb 2005 13:44

The Freemasons Arms, Covent Garden

Went here to meet friends one night in November and liked it so much I went back for my birthday.
You get treated like a regular pretty much straight off, the food's lovely and well-priced for Covent Garden, and there are a couple of widescreen plasma TVs showing sport etc which kept me amused while waiting for friends to turn up.
It's difficult to find a seat sometimes, but there are plenty of places to perch fairly comfortably while you're waiting to pounce on a table.

1 Jan 2005 21:50