Two Brewers

Two Brewers

This pub was editorially chosen for inclusion.

A quietly excellent pub, this one. The small bar is the perfect retreat on a wet winter's night, when its diminutive dimensions and dark walls make for a cosy, intimate space. One of the pub's chief selling points is that it lets you bring your own food along and eat on the premises. Why? Because Whitecross Street food market — surely the best in London — fills the road outside every weekday lunchtime. The Brewers would be crazy to try and sell its own food with such a world-beating offering outside, so it goes with the flow and opens its tables to the burritos and burgers and paella of other vendors. Make sure you buy some beer to go along with it, though — four fairly standard ales to choose from. Oh, and don't leave it too late. The place is rammed by 12.30pm.

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The 'kitchen' (in the shape of street food vendors outside) serves hundreds of dishes. We opted for the only one that looks like a 1980s ready meal. Bloody tasty, mind.
The 'kitchen' (in the shape of street food vendors outside) serves hundreds of dishes. We opted for the only one that looks like a 1980s ready meal. Bloody tasty, mind.
Long thin bar.
Long thin bar.
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If you'd have sat here 400 years ago, you might have been mingling with the greatest actors of the day.
If you'd have sat here 400 years ago, you might have been mingling with the greatest actors of the day.
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Address: 121 Whitecross Street London EC1Y 8JD

Phone: 020 7606 7210

Website:
/pubs/two-brewers

Monday: 11am-11pm

Tuesday: 11am-11pm

Wednesday: 11am-11pm

Thursday: 11am-11pm

Friday: 11am-11pm

Saturday: 11am-11pm

Sunday: noon-11pm

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