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Watch out for Pirates!

April 11, 2008

Good for a birthday party indeed! The Smuggler's Tavern is a nice, albeit small, pub behind the Warren Street tube station. What it lacks for in massive size, it makes up for with great service and tasty beverages (including this pirate's favourite, San Miguel). The place was lovely for a group of about 20 people, with a big table and couches reserved for the group but also had room for other punters (landlubbers, those) to enjoy themselves as well.

Outside are a row of picnic tables and a neat feature - on demand heat lamps. When you are out there shivering and sucking down on your cancer sticks (or, like me, joining the smokers outside because they are often better for conversation even if I don't smoke), all you need to do is depress a button and the heat lamps fire up and do their best to warm you up outside.

The place also has a big screen that was playing a pretty hilarious darts championship when we were there, but would also presumably be great for football and rugby as well. A kind of dank, subterranean mens room is a bit of a put off, but the ladies don't have to worry about drunkenly stumbling downstairs, their facilities are behind the bar.

All in all, a great place to meet up with some fellow privateers and throw back some pints in celebration.

Tags: argh!, pirates, cool heat lamps

Good place for a birthday

April 03, 2008

It's actually not really suitable for a birthday because it's "cozy" (read: small), but if you, like me, want most of your guests to stay long enough to buy you another drink and then bugger off, it's ideal.

The outside is fantastic, you can't miss it; a giant plastic buccaneer sits atop the awning.

The inside is very un-piratey; it's white and simple with plastic tulips on every table. But I actually kind of like that, you could imagine colonial smugglers coming in for a drink of rum.

The drink selection is pretty great, they have San Miguel on tap as well as lot's of liquor and pear cider. It's all about average price, I paid £6.40 for two pints.

The best thing is the self activating heat lamps outside.

Tags: pirate