To say a massive thank you for your readership and support this year...
We've held events at some of the best venues in London this year: The Goring, The Ned, Mr Porter, but for Christmas we're putting on an old-school party in an even older pub.
Our venue this year is the kind of pub your dad would have drunk in. Mine might still be there and he died 20 years ago.
No flat whites, artisan bread or chimichurri for you, matey. You can pop over the road to Borough Market for that nonsense.
This is for the purist. The pub lover's haven. It inspires gratitude for the simpler things in life.
Help:
I am trying to find an Irish music band. Does anyone know anyone?
The Old King’s Head has been pouring pints since 1680. Hidden down a narrow alley behind Borough High Street, it’s one of London’s last proper pubs.
Its roots snake back to the early 1500s when the site was home to what was then called the “Pope’s Head Inn” just before the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
For hundreds of years this spot served as a coaching‑inn: travellers arriving into London Bridge would pause here, making it a nexus of movement and conversation.
The pub interior you see today retains stained glass, old‑wood floors and large murals depicting the area’s past - an intentional echo of the era when this yard was alive with carts and carriers.
December 3rd. Sign up below.
See you there
Dan