New Featured Article - Charles Dickens, SE1 0LH

[katstevens]

Hullo RGL crew!

It's time for another featured article, namely the Charles Dickens, SE1 0LH, a Good Beer Guide pub in Borough. Highlights include scampi and lovely scrumptious pints of mild!

We also have a trinity of new articles: Tommi's Burger Joint, W1U, a trendy burger place in Marylebone that doesn't appear to have a Ridiculous Queuing Policy^TM; Honest, W1F, another burger hangout which you may recall replaced the Soho branch of Palms of Goa. Finally there's the Cock Tavern, E8, a new brewpub bang in the middle of Mare St, which -- brace yourselves -- does not currently have burgers on the menu. Or indeed, anything else! (Early days, of course.)

Wailing/gnashing of teeth news: RGL-haunt Le Cassoulet, CR2 has abruptly shut! Sniff! Also for the chop: Geeta, NW6, Koreana, HA3, the Case Is Altered, HA3, Cafe Rajistan, E14 and Beaufoy Bar, SW11. Jolly locals' pub the Whitesmiths Arms, SE1 in Borough is also temporarily shut for a refurb (they'd better keep the awesome jukebox).

Zombie of the Week Award goes to the Bloated Mallard, TW11 which has reopened.

Comments

[kake]

The refurb at the Whitesmiths Arms was last year :) The current closure is documented on the LondonSE1 thread linked from the RGL page, with a comment from someone who seems to be the ex-manager, saying "I've decided to close because the area just does not like this pub ! A pub is only as good as it's customers and we just didn't have enough of those to keep going."

[katstevens]

You are absolutely right! Wishful thinking on my part perhaps - I liked that pub a great deal.

[kake]

At least the manner of closure means there's hope of it reopening — it's not like it's been sold to a property developer or burned down or something. Hopefully it will arise anew under new management!