Angel in York

The York, Angel, London, N1 8EQ

The first pub you come to when walking right out of Angel tube, I’ve gone past here numerous times but never felt the urge to go in. I was meeting a visiting mate and he’d spent couple of hours nursing a pint while reading the paper and waiting for me to finish work, in fact he described it as a perfect place for this job during the day and I could see why. Just a normal pub really nothing special but also nothing crap about it, although I might change my opinion of the crap-ness if I’d eaten here, don’t think I will though. Beer’s were standard fare on draught and I plumped for every reliable Deuchars which wasn’t bad at all.

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Camden Town on a Sunday

Hawley Arms, Camden, London, NW1 8QU

Rebuilt after being burnt down with Camden Market a couple of years ago it does actually have a similar vibe about it, we popped in for a couple to have a little rest bite from the hordes outside since it was a Sunday. We sat outside in the little courtyard area since the winter weather seems to be finally making the change to spring. They have a decent selection of four guest ales on tap and we went for the seasonal Greene King Hare Raiser first which was a nice floral traditional bitter, the bitterness was on the heavy since for me, I did enjoy it but wanted something lighter really took a gamble on the Okells Old Skipper and it paid off big time - beautiful golden colour with a slight hint of citrus with combined with slowly maturing flavour which actually was bitter but a totally different milder bitterness than the Hare Raiser, a beer I'll hope to bump into again.

Camden Eye, Camden, London, NW1 9NX

Right next to the tube and sandwiched between two roads this is nicer than it should be, the menu looked appealing and I would think about eating here at some point. The beer selection was minimal and we rather predictably went for the Deuchars IPA which I think was by far best on offer and is a really good afternoon session beer - it was a quick decision at the bar. I wish we'd stayed for another pint of this rather than venturing across the road for old memories sake.

The World's End, Camden, London, NW1 0NE

The classic meeting point for a lot of people when rendezvousing up in Camden for a pre-gig drink or two. But really its not up to much and show when we were resigned to drinking Caffreys which is just mass manufactured piss really, should have gone for Guinness. I know it's Camden but the music playing on the stereo was shocking metal and turned my mind to avoiding here - but you know I'll end up in here again one day before some gig down the road, it feels like it'll always be here and always be the same.

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Ales by work

The Walrus & Carpenter, City of London, EC3R 8BU

This pub literally on the door step of my work seems to be frequented far too often by us simply because of its proximity. Saying that they do serve a reasonable number of house and guest ales on the pumps. First of all we tried a pint of Shepherd Neame Spitfire but didn't improve over the pint we had last week in the Jamaican Wine House, after that we had a lovely pint of The Caledonian Breweries Deuchars beer, so much smoother than the previous pint this slipped down easily. But it didn't stop us from trying something different so we went for the seasonal Ryedale Winter's Tale ale - slightly dark with bit more bitterness, it was nice but we returned to the Deuchars after this. It's not a bad pub to have right outside work but gonna try move further afield more often.

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