The Two Chairmen, SW1

I've never really got on with this pub, it's too small to be comfortable and usually too full as well, so they're obviously doing somwthing right. It's a Greene King pub, which doesn't help as far as I'm concerned. I call in occasionally when I'm working at the nearby Home Office, but there are much better options close by, in my opinion.

Dating from the early 18th century, this is a backstreet pub I’d never seen before. As mentioned, it’s a small room of a pub, owned by Greene King but oddly, there aren’t really any clues as to this other than the sign and beers. It’s well described below, except that there’s no chance of confusing it with the other Chairmen as it’s closed down. Otherwise, most of the interior is much like many other central London pubs, with a lacquered floor and tall furniture with trendy, subdued lighting and décor in the form of framed prints and plants. Customers were great in number, most drinking outside, in high spirits and probably nearby civil servants. Ales up were Rockin’ Rudolph, Landlord, GK IPA, Tribute and Twickenham’s Autumn Red at £2.70 a half and rather nice. This isn’t a bad GK pub for once, improved for not adhering solely to its own beer and Doom. Worth popping in for a snoop, but not a destination though.