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Star & Garter, London

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Operator: Independent
62 Poland Street, Soho, London, W1F 7NX (View on Google Map)
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Proper pubs aka old-style boozers are becoming hard to find as the gentrification of Soho continues apace, so this one, just off Oxford Street, deserves your support. Dating from at least 1825 and formerly a Courage house, it has a small, cosy, wood-panelled bar area with a matchboard ceiling and a selection of prints and knick-knacks on the walls. The inside has been described as "it feels like being out at sea and in the captain’s quarters".

An overspill bar upstairs is usually open on Thursday and Friday nights to cope with the throng.

Historic Interest

There has been a public house here since at least 1825 when its name but it may have been first licensed in 1814. According to the Survey of London, it "is outwardly an early nineteenth-century building with a three-storeyed front. In the ground storey is a contemporary wooden public-house front having narrow pilasters which support a fascia, the latter finished with carved bracket-stops. The upper storeys each have two flat-headed windows, but the brickwork has a much later cement facing with window-surrounds of the same date". In 1986 this was the Soho Clarion's Pub-of-the-Year and the Spring 1986 edition features a youthful Kelvin receiving his £75 award of a free bet from bookmakers William Hill. The Clarion approvingly comments that "So often refurbishment means modernisation and a general loss of character. In this case, however, the brewers have done an excellent job providing at the same time more space and a most pleasing decor. On a note of interest, displayed on the wall area, are the original beer pumps that were only taken out last year." Those original pumps still remain on display and the front windows are still picked out in gold lettering with 'COURAGE BEST BITTER' and 'COURAGE DIRECTORS BITTER'.

Information for this venue is provided by the West London Branch of CAMRA
Previous Names
Local Authority
Westminster
Last updated
07/12/2023
Last surveyed
05/02/2020
Pub ID
WLD/16496
Asset of Community Value
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Opening
Monday
11:30am - 11:00pm
Tuesday
11:30am - 11:00pm
Wednesday
11:30am - 11:00pm
Thursday
11:30am - 11:00pm
Friday
11:30am - 11:00pm
Saturday
Noon - 11:00pm
Sunday
Closed
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Facilities
Dog Friendly Dog Friendly
In limited numbers
Function Room Function Room
Upstairs bar for up to 50 standing or 25 seated
Smoking Smoking
Pavement - standing
Features
Real Ale Real Ale
Transport
Close to bus routes (400m)
TfL Buses: 55 (Also near Regent Street buses 3, 6, 12, 13, 23, 88, 94, 139, 159, 453), 73 (Also near Regent Street buses 3, 6, 12, 13, 23, 88, 94, 139, 159, 453), 98 (Also near Regent Street buses 3, 6, 12, 13, 23, 88, 94, 139, 159, 453), 390 (Also near Regent Street buses 3, 6, 12, 13, 23, 88, 94, 139, 159, 453)
Closest station (1200m)
London Charing Cross
Close to London Underground/Overground/DLR (475m)
Oxford Circus
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