Fox & Hounds, SW1

This pub is well worth seeking out, prices were reasonable for the area and the beer quality was good. Four ales on handpump on our visit. There were two other customers in, on our Thursday afternoon visit, it wasn't long until we were included in the conversation. The pub was a Bass Charrington house until 1997, when Youngs took it over. This was the last pub in London to receive a spirit license.

A gem of a pub. Found when following the London Camra pub walks route in Belgravia. If you dont have this book, get it - its superb. This is not far from sloane square, down a quiet back street. Interesting decor in a single room but its the people that are of interest. Can't be many places where a Terry Thomas dandy is rubbing shoulders with a builder with a Tattooed neck. The beer is superb. Never been a massive fan of youngs, but the bitter in here was really something special. Recommended and worth finding out.

Great little Young’s corner pub well described by previous reviewers and very good to find this small traditional boozer functioning well in this area of affluence. Quite a small internal space but full of character with a profusion of wood, a gas fire and a surprising amount of seating squeezed in including a couple of Chesterfield sofa’s at the back. Fortunately not too busy for my visit as I can imagine it doesn’t take too many to be in before it gets claustrophobic. Youngs Ordinary, Special and CW Bombardier were on the go and in line with others I will gladly pay a return visit when back in the area.

A very good traditional boozer serving youngs ales, normally first port of call when drinking in the Belgravia area, very comfortable bar area and you feel you would like to stay for more than one.

The Fox and Hounds is a decent little backstreet boozer just around the corner from Sloane Square station. Having not been down this neck of the woods before I was pleasantly surprised to find a down to earth Sloane Rangerless pub. The two people working behind the bar were very friendly, as was the bloke sitting at the bar who may have been a local or maybe the governor. There is a standard draught selection and being a Young’s house the three hand pumps were drawing Ordinary, Special and Winter Warmer. The bar is located in the front room where a yard of ale hangs from the wall with various dates and records for downing ale from it. Apparently the world record is five seconds which is quite savage and apparently has stood since 1976. There is another room at the rear of the pub that feels like a study with bookshelves and a sofa if memory serves me correctly. Seating is found throughout and a ginormous dog was blocking the entrance as I walked in making me have to step over him/her. Thankfully I wasn’t that bladdered and we both escaped unscathed from our introduction. This is a proper boozer that I would make a detour to visit again.

This pub really doesn’t look like much from the outside, but it opens up inside into a rather nice little pub, as already described by Maldenman and John Bonser. The toasted cheese sandwich at £2.95 was a good bet, and probably superior in quality to the KFC meal my companion subjected himself to later in the afternoon. The cat and dog did make an interesting double act – the barman showed me a video clip of the 5lb cat seeing off the 8st dog in a one-sided boxing match. This is a great little pub, to which I would gladly pay a return visit.

Situated in a quiet, residential side street and in close proximity to Sloane Square underground is The Fox and Hounds, a pub whose main claim to fame is that it was the last "beer only" pub in London. A full licence was not granted until 1998. It's a cosy, characterful, street corner pub with a small frontage, although it extends back further inside than you might expect from the outside. It's traditionally furnished, with much wood panelling and a profusion of fox hunting prints and pictures. A smallish room at the front, where the bar counter is situated, leads into a slightly larger room dominated by a couple of sofas, but with still a traditional feel. Just inside the pub, above the bar, rather incongruously, hangs a Yard of Ale and we are told that the pub record for downing this is 11.08 seconds. There's no music, TV's or fruit machines to detract from the fine atmosphere. On my recent Sunday early afternoon visit, the pub was dominated somewhat by several groups of smartly dressed people of both sexes and, since they included several people in dog collars, I presumed that they had just come from a nearby local church service. Despite being my usual well-behaved, affable self, an elderly Miss Marple type, who was in one of the groups and was sitting in the corner sipping red wine, say fit to look at me in a rather disapproving and sniffy manner. It was, with great difficulty, that I resisted the temptation to respond with a biblical quotation along the lines of "we're all equal in the eyes of the Lord". Formerly a Charringtons house for many years, it's now a Young's tenancy which, on my visit was serving Special, Ordinary and London Gold. The Special - £ 3.35p - was in good form, although I appeared to be virtually the only customer not drinking shorts. I quite like this pub, but I'm hoping for a wider customer mix next time I drop in.

Randomness Guide to London - Fox And Hounds entry

Randomness Guide to London - Fox And Hounds entry