Ye Olde Mitre Tavern, Farringdon  rated5 pints - click for an explanation of our ratings

location:

Farringdon

address:

1 Ely Court, EC1N 6SJ

phone:

0871 984 1738*
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nearest stations:

Chancery Lane London Underground station
(250m) - zone 1

Farringdon London Underground stationRailway station
(260m) - zone 1

City Thameslink Railway station
(350m)

Barbican London Underground stationRailway station
(690m) - zone 1

Blackfriars London Underground stationRailway station
(780m) - zone 1

bus routes:

8, 17, 25, 45, 46, 242, 243, 341, 521 bus info

how to find it:

Out of Chancery Lane tube station, go east to Holborn Circus. Hatton Garden is the first road on the left and the Mitre is up an alleyway on the right of the start of Hatton Garden. There's a quaint little signpost indicating the alley.

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nearby attraction(s):

Sir John Soane's Museum (710m)

Museum of London (750m)

St. Paul's Cathedral (820m)

picture of Ye Olde Mitre TavernThis well-concealed pub (in a little yard just off Hatton Garden) can often be an oasis in a somewhat manic area. Of course, like any pub in the City, it gets overrun at the usual times - lunch and immediately after work - but outside of those hours it's a haven. The beers are well kept, usually a couple of decent real ales with regular guests on the hand pumps. The food is honest pub grub and the service is old-fashioned and excellent - many newer pubs should take note. This is a genuine old pub; historic, quirky and atmospheric, replete with the panelling and odd little nooks and crannies you'd expect in such a place - and we hope it stays this way for ever. By the way, if you don't spot the sign on the lamp post in Hatton Garden pointing into the alleyway, you will walk straight past it. And during the week of St George's Day, there's seven - yep, count 'em - seven guest ales on. Not one to miss.

reviewed:
02/06/2008
reviewed by pubdog

Eating at the Ye Olde Mitre Tavern ... we last ate here on 03/01/2007

A rather traditional array of bar snacks - pickled eggs may not be for the faint-hearted - and a range of toasties. Scotch eggs and sausage rolls too. Not somewhere to have a full meal at (there's no space for that, anyway), but reasonably priced and old-fashioned snacks that beat the usual round of crisps, etc.
food rating 1 - quality
value rating 1 - value

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