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location:
address:
16 Duke Street, SW1Y 6DB
phone:
0871 984 3627*
* calls cost 10p/minute, click here for more about 0871 numbers.
nearest stations:
Green Park 
(330m) - zone 1
Piccadilly Circus
(370m) - zone 1
Leicester Square
(800m) - zone 1
Oxford Circus
(890m) - zone 1
Charing Cross 
(910m) - zone 1
how to find it:
Exit Green Park tube onto Piccadilly, and turn and walk past The Ritz Hotel before taking a right down St. James St. Take your first left down Jermyn St., then the second street on your right down Duke St. The pub is on your left.
click for directions to The Chequers Tavern from wherever you areclick here for a larger map
nearby attraction(s):
The Royal Academy (250m)
National Gallery (660m)
Trafalgar Square (670m)
Another small St. James' pub. Usually the quietest pub in this neck of the woods, it means there's more chance to get a seat. It gets the basics right, with good real ales, and a simple but cheap food menu. The service is very good and they clearly take pride in running their pub. Apparently dating back to the Great Fire of London in 1666, the pub was originally called the Masons Arms, as the stonemasons building Westminster Palace prepared their stone nearby, behind what was Cavendish House. It became the Cavendish Hotel and was the residence of "Lady Cavendish", Rosa Lewis (rumoured to be one of the mistresses of King Edward VII) and a popular place for distinguished families and American millionaires. While their masters were being entertained inside, their coachmen whiled away their time drinking ale and playing chequers on the steps of the pub, and that's where the sign and the name came from. All that history aside, it doesn't look that old. But still, give it a go, it's a good, solid boozer.
24/07/2008
real ales
seats out the back
jukebox
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