location:
address:
39 Bow Street, WC2E 7AU
phone:
0871 984 1261*
* calls cost 10p/minute, click here for more about 0871 numbers.
nearest stations:
Covent Garden 
(200m) - zone 1
Leicester Square 
(490m) - zone 1
Holborn 
(500m) - zone 1
Temple 
(520m) - zone 1
Charing Cross 

(580m) - zone 1
how to find it:
From Covent Garden, turn right along Long Acre and walk to the mini-roundabout. Turn right down Bow Street and it's on your left at the junction with Russell Street (you will have passed the Opera House on your right). From Holborn, turn left and cross Kingsway, take the second right down Great Queen Street, turn left at the mini-roundabout down Bow Street and then it's as above.
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nearby attraction(s):
Sir John Soane's Museum (530m)
National Gallery (670m)
Trafalgar Square (720m)
The worst time to visit this pub is at 6:30 on Friday night in summer. It will be absolutely packed with tourists, office workers celebrating the end of another week and people on their way out for the night. The rest of the time it's just full. It's an easy place to find (hence it's a useful rendezvous) and it's not too bad a pub in itself - despite the All Bar One look. It's a Young's pub after all - but the endless tides of people coming in and out throughout the day don't make this the place for a relaxing pint. it's no surprise to see all of Young's beers on tap here, though we weren't expecting the extra pump dispensing Pimm's... Must be a sign of the times.

