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New Featured Article - Old Orchard, UB9 6HJ

Evening everyone!

Our featured article this week is for the Old Orchard in Harefield, a large pub with plenty of tasty beer and food. On a nice day you can sit outside and look over the picturesque gravel pits of the Colne Valley, which I last visited around 2001 for a civilised Boxing Day stroll with my parents. Like the Colne Valley, the Old Orchard is a bit of an effort to get to unless you have a car, or live near my parents.

There's an update for the Yardbird in Hammersmith following a recent visit. This particular pub I last visited around 2001, when it was still called The Trout, so I didn't feel the need to form a rock supergroup. As far as I know Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck have never been in a band called The Trouts, but there is still time for them to get on the case.

We have new pages for two drinking establishments in Camden: firstly, a branch of the steadily-growing BrewDog empire, which reportedly has some non-BrewDog guest beers as well as their usual loopy juice. A few steps up towards Camden Town tube station, there's also the somewhat infamous rock pub, the World's End. This particular pub I last visited around 2001, when I got barred for what could be deemed 'rock'n'roll behaviour'. For some reason I can't remember the details but I was probably starting a supergroup in an overenthusiastic fashion. Eric and Jeff could learn from my example.

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New featured article — Prince Albert, Woolwich, SE18

We have a rather pub-heavy week of updates this week!

Featured article is The Prince Albert, SE18 6NE, a pub in Woolwich which often goes by the name "Rose's". It's a single-room pub, it does crusty rolls, you'll get a pint of real ale, and it's proper trad.

New articles are: The Rochester Castle (the "Roch" if you live nearby) in London's trendy Stoke Newington, a classic 'Spoons and the oldest one that's still part of the chain (also one of the few that's in an actual pub building). There's also the Dalston branch of the Diner chain, which does the usual 50s Americana vibe with a menu to match, though it seems pricy.

Reported closures are The Cock Tavern under Smithfield Market (this one closed over a year ago apparently), and The Tamworth Arms in Croydon. The latter was a lovely old traditional Young's house, though I wouldn't be surprised if it reappears with a major facelift, as per other pubs in that chain (see the featured article from two weeks' ago). We also believe that Na Pura Portuguese cafe in Nunhead has closed.

On the plus side of the ledger, The Railway in West Hampstead has reopened following a period of refurbishment.

Finally, there are updates to two more pubs after recent visits: the weirdly sanitised and family-friendly The Dulwich Wood House in Sydenham; and The Old Orchard in Harefield, which has big terraces and beautiful views.

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New featured article — Gaylord, W1W 7SJ.

Image © Kake

This week's featured article is Gaylord, W1W 7SJ, a long-established Indian restaurant near Oxford Street.

(While writing this, I realised that it was a featured article a couple of years back. But I am very tired, so it can be one again.)

Recent additions to RGL include Old Red Lion, a real ale pub in Clerkenwell; Breakspear Arms, a Greene King pub in Ruislip; and the Crown, another real ale pub in Borough.

One reported closure: Seki-Tei in Twickenham.