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location:
address:
53 Whitehall, SW1A 2HP
phone:
0871 984 3630*
* calls cost 10p/minute, click here for more about 0871 numbers.
nearest stations:
Charing Cross 
(240m) - zone 1
Embankment
(330m) - zone 1
Westminster
(550m) - zone 1
Leicester Square
(570m) - zone 1
Piccadilly Circus
(610m) - zone 1
how to find it:
From Embankment: Take the Villiers Street exit and immediately turn left under the railway trestle. Cross Northumberland Avenue and take Whitehall Place up to Whitehall. Turn left and it's right there on the left. From Charing Cross: You'll have to find Whitehall from wherever you come out. Proceed down Whitehall and it's about two minutes walk on the left.
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nearby attraction(s):
Trafalgar Square (190m)
Banqueting House (200m)
National Gallery (290m)
The Clarence, a touristy, civil servanty pub on Whitehall has always walked the line between 'cosy' and 'dingy', so when a refurb took place recently we wondered how it would end up. And now we've popped in we feel its not bad at all. The exterior has gone from a bland-looking green to a handsome shade of red; indeed we saw the new signs being installed - they were all completely identical to the old ones, apart from the colour. Inside, its not a pub with a huge amount of natural light, but they've worked with this problem and the leather bench seating, curtains and dividers give it the elegant look of somewhere considerably older than a 2007 vintage. There are a respectable four ales available - albeit predictable ones - which are accompanied by the usual lager taps, some of which are now becoming so monstrous they probably need planning permission. Overall this has been a considered refurbishment and makes some nearby pubs look rather dated.
09/03/2007
real ales
TV
tables on the pavement
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