New Featured Article - Spotted Horse, SW15 1RG

[katstevens]

Afternoon RGLers! Lots to report today:

This week's featured article is the Spotted Horse, SW15 1RG, a Young's pub on Putney High Street. It's quite food-focused and has table-service in the dining room area. There is an actual spotted horse above the door (see picture above) which makes me very pleased.

We have new articles for the Stormbird, a Camberwell drinking establishment with plenty of nice beer on the handpumps (e.g. lovely lovely Thornbridge Jaipur) and the Star of Kings (formerly the Cross Kings) on York Way, which is sadly not so great on the beer front.

The articles for the Jolly Gardeners in Putney and Asadal in Holborn have both been updated with the latest accessibility information, plus what our team of intrepid researchers ate on their recent visits -- spiced lentils, gnocchi, pig's ears and kidneys (not all at once).

The descriptively-named Sichuan Restaurant in Acton has now closed, as has the Farringdon Station branch of Yo Sushi (soon to become a Pret).

There's also a new category on the site, 'Needs Checking'. Places in this category may no longer exist - if you are likely to walk past any of them, do let us know if they are still there! Of course, if by the act of measurement the nature of their reality changes then they may well exist and not exist at the same time if the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics holds. Thankfully the practicalities of wave function collapse probably means we won't have to create a new category 'Unobservable'.

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The Bell E17

[techiebabe]

Hello! Just realised that The Bell (at Bell Corner, junction of Hoe Street and Forest Road, E17) doesn't feature in RGL. It reopened a few weeks ago*, being run by one of the staff who worked at the Red Lion in Leytonstone. Not sure if it's an Antic pub (not sure about their structure at the mo as Antic went under but Antic London continues? or something?)

Anyway http://www.belle17.com/ has basic info. They're also on twitter: https://twitter.com/Bell_E17

I drove past it today but didn't have time to stop. I'd be up for visiting it sometime if anyone would like to join me? I imagine it's in roughly the same vein as the Lion in terms of being friendly to all, good beer, and reasonable food - but it definitely needs testing!

Also, Leyton Technical - which ran as a popup during the Olympics - reopened last weekend. Looks like it was a one-off but I know they have plans to become permanent. They are in Leyton Town Hall which isn't the best venue, but again run by an ex-Red Lion manager, so the beer is good at least. https://twitter.com/LeytonTechnical has more info.


* Well, it FEELS like a few weeks. Website says opening event was November!