Union, Marylebone, W1

Very busy pub just off Baker Street. One big room with bar to the right. Two reversed hand pumps - the rest keg. Raised platform to the left which was quiet by contrast.

This is a modern bar with Broadside as a token ale offering and San Miguel as the premium lager alongside a standard draught selection. There are high tables and sofas, but it is easy to get comfortable and I found the staff to be very pleasant. This is the sort of place that I would end up in on a work do organised by a woman and I would moan, but probably enjoy myself once I was there. I would still gripe about the tinny speakers and this would make me disappointed if I had hired the place out as many of the advertisements about the place invited me to do.