Great London Pubs: The Market Porter
London’s a great place to drink but it has fewer breweries than it used to. If you’re into real ale, that can mean you get bored drinking Young’s and Fullers, the most commonly available beers.
However, the Market Porter in Borough Market will help stave off beer boredom. It has an adventurous menu of real ales with ten usually on the pump. I’ve seen Dark Star, O’Hanlon’s, Phoenix, Titanic, Everards and Kelham Island – some pretty good names (and excellent beers) in that list. You can even see what beer’s on from the website!
Borough Market, of course, is a wonderful place to visit anyway for its food market. That does mean Fridays and Saturdays, when the market’s open, are likely to be very busy – early evenings are also a time that the pub is a little too full for comfort.
And this is a nice traditional style pub. The Georgian style frontage implies you might find some nice wooden panellin inside, and it’s not misleading. A recent refurb has kept the pub’s comfortable, old style atmosphere unchanged.
If you’re peckish, there’s a restaurant upstairs. But for me, it’s the beer that is the big draw here. If you’re fed up with drinking in the City, consider crossing the river for your pint – you won’t regret it.
Where: 9 Stoney Street, SW1 (Borough or London Bridge tube stations)
Photo credit by Bob Walker (rjw1) on Flickr
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