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John Bonser left this review about The Hatchet
In a side street little more than a stone’s throw away from Mansion House Tube Station is The Hatchet, a small traditional relatively unspoilt City pub.
The main bar area is a typical stand up to drink bare boarded City bar with much woodwork in evidence and bar stools and ledges around the perimeter of the room. Pleasingly, there was no sign of that awful golf gaming machine that was here on my last visit several years ago.
At the far end is a more comfortable, carpeted room with half height wood panelling and upholstered seating. Several large plain mirrors make the room feel a bit larger than it actually is. There’s some elegant cornicing where the walls meet the ceiling and a fine tiled fireplace. The walls are decorated with framed photos of old London street scenes. I was looking for something that might indicate why the pub is so called, but to no avail.
On my recent early evening visit, the pub was quite busy with both the pavement outside and the main bar area quite full up with the after work office crowd. Notably, the back room was virtually deserted and I was able to sit and enjoy my pint in some comfort, not an experience often encountered in City pubs in the early evening.
The green tinged windows would indicate that this was once a Charringtons house. It’s now a Greene King pub which was offering Abbott and IPA. I didn’t see anything to indicate that any guest beers are ever offered.
I like small traditional old fashioned City watering holes like this. If they were to start offering a guest beer, I could easily get into the habit of coming here more often
On 20th January 2012
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Rex Rattus left this review about The Hatchet
This is a pub of two halves – but as it’s so small maybe it should be a pub of two quarters. The front room is bare-boarded, with only a few tall stools at the bar and at a ledge by the window. Vertical drinking seems to be the order of the day in here. However, through a door at the back on the left is another room, this one carpeted, with some banquette seating, normal tables and chairs, plus a couple of bucket armchairs. There’s also a nice fireplace in this room, with traditional tiling at the sides, plus a couple of mirrors (one of which has seen much better days) and a number of black and white prints of the City of years past. This is easily the more comfortable of the two rooms.
The windows at the front look pretty ancient, with the green banding in the glass suggesting a former life as a Charrington’s pub. But it’s now a Greene King house, with just IPA and Abbot on when I visited. The food looks very reasonably priced (for the City of London) with staples such as bangers and mash for £5.25, and sandwiches for £4. For the City this is an excellent little pub, as long as you’re happy with Greene King ales. I’d be happy to drop in again, but it would be improved immensely with a guest ale although I realise that it’s probably too small to sustain one.
On 22nd November 2011
- rating: 6
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Just a quick pint, then I'm off left this review about The Hatchet
If you look carefully at the pub sign hanging above this compact pub almost opposite one of the exits from Mansion House station, you see a small crown suggesting that this is a Greene King house. Inside, the tidy little bar offers two real ales - IPA and the seasonal Sorcerer (£3.45). There is also another small but comfortable room at the back with walls displaying a variety of framed pictures (a feature which is repeated up the stairs leading to the toilets). Given that I went in at the busiest time of the week (i.e. office closing time on a Friday afternoon), I thought the atmosphere was relatively calm and relaxed and thus this must be one of the better places in the area for a civilised pint.
On 1st April 2011
- rating: 7
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