"Famed for: Charles Dickens, Agatha Christie, and being really, really old. Most old school London boozers will claim to have been the setting where Charles Dickens wrote something that is now very famous. This leads us to believe two things: one, pubs know that a literary history is always a selling point, and two, Mr. Dickens really loved the sesh. Good for him. Work hard, play hard my man. Dickens, along with lots of other Very Important Writer People regularly frequented this pub - and in the case of Agatha Christie, actually mentions it in a Poirot story. It’s casually been open for almost 500 years and we love it for a Saturday pint, where the low, beam ceilings will trick you into thinking you’ve escaped London for the afternoon." - heidi lauth beasley
