Marquess of Anglesey, Covent Garden, WC2

Young's pub with five hand pumps with nothing above 4.5% ABV. Nice open fire to left hand rear of the place.

Young's pub serving real ale and food I quite liked the refurb.

A street corner pub just off of Covent Garden, it has a traditional appearance from the outside but looks as though it has had a bit of a makeover at some point and has a somewhat more contemporary interior to that which one finds in many London pubs. Being a corner plot it has dual aspect windows and there were wooden boards on the floor along with predominantly cream paintwork. White butcher’s tiles clad parts of the walls and many of the pillars and unusually some of these had a small leather cushion affixed to them at waist height so you could half lean/half sit against them. The obligatory old black and white photographs of the Covent Garden market adorned the walls whilst there was a small bookcase in one corner. A small plasma was mounted up above the door, but this was not in use on our visit. There is also an upstairs dining area although we did not investigate this. Beers on tap were all from the Young’s stable with their Bitter, Special, Winter Warmer and Bombardier. The solitary cider was Aspall’s Suffolk. Prices seemed expensive even for central London with a pint and a half coming in at £7.40.