The Lyric, Soho, W1

The beer gods were smiling on me on Saturday night. Having failed to get in some upmarket cocktail bar nearby for a pre Ronnie Scott’s wettner due to queues, I managed to talk the good Lady into squeezing into this one after seeing something resembling a decent beer range from the window The negative of this place is its small size and we were lucky to squeeze onto two bar stools at the far end of the bar. But that is more than made up by the fact that it punches well above its weight for beer choice and especially in this particular bit of town. Ilkley Brewery Crossroads, Big Smoke Brewery Solaris, Redwell Extra Pale Ale, Tring Vampire, Southwark Routemaster Red and Portobello Star Amber Ale were on for our visit and the couple we tried were well kept. And also an impressive range of keg fonts as well reported below.. Totally agree, this one is now firmly in the memory banks for a return visit when next in the Soho area.

A basic one room pub with an upstairs dining room not investigated, all as described by Bucking Fastard below, beer-wise this was a real find in Taylor Walker land,beers on were an excellent 360 degrees Session IPA backed up with Longarm Lucky Penny,Trumans Zeyphr,One Mile End Dockers Delight,Arbour Blue Sky Drinking and a perry in the form of Bee Sting,plenty of Craft Keg options as well. Impressed and now firmly on the map.