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location:
address:
44-46 Ludgate Hill, EC4M 7DE
phone:
0871 984 1314*
* calls cost 10p/minute, click here for more about 0871 numbers.
nearest stations:
Blackfriars 
(250m) - zone 1
City Thameslink
(250m)
St Paul's
(350m) - zone 1
Mansion House
(610m) - zone 1
Farringdon
(720m) - zone 1
how to find it:
From St. Paul's: leave the station and head west past the cathedral and down Ludgate Hill. You'll soon see the place on a corner on the right. From Blackfriars: leave the station by a Blackfriars Road exit and head towards Fleet Street. Turn right when you get to Ludgate Circus and head up the hill a short way. You'll see the bar across the road on your left.
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nearby attraction(s):
St. Paul's Cathedral (280m)
Museum of London (550m)
Globe Theatre (780m)
The All Bar One formula writ large. Clean lines with wooden floors, benches, chairs and tables mean every voice echoes and bounces off every surface. Don't go there for a good conversation - go for a good nod. But the formula works. A decent range of beers, including London Pride and - on this visit - a specially wide range of fizzy yellow stuff representing a European beer week. Attractive, young white-unformed staff will offer the change from the marginally overpriced drinks on a tip-pleading saucer. And they can never answer my my favourite All Bar One question - where is the Beano in the 'newspaper and Beano' dispenser? So what lingers? In the spirit of Fancyapint? reviewers you have to look around. And a glance upwards stunned me at the combination of fans and extractors clinging on to that ceiling. For a moment I thought I was in the Tate Modern. But no it was an All Bar One.
11/06/2005
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