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The Blue Maid, Borough, SE1
SE1
SE1 1HR
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Reviews of The Blue Maid (Average Rating: 5½ of 10) see review guidelines
paulof horsham left this review about The Blue Maid
Cask ale for just £5 a pint in central London? And great quality too? Sounds too good to be true, but that's what I encountered here. To be fair, there are only 3 handles, and Burning Sky Plateau is off right now, but Five Points Best and an excellent Howling Hops Mild remain. There's considerably more choice among the craft keg options, though none greatly appealed, despite the warm evening.
I could have done without the noisy background music, but I've got to let that pass given the fair-price of the ale and the interesting beers on offer.
Looks like a go-to in the London Bridge area.
On 1st September 2026
- rating: 8
[User has posted 691 recommendations about 642 pubs]
Will Larter left this review about The Blue Maid
There was a tour guide delivering a lecture as I arrived outside this pub. Apparently it gets mentioned in Little Dorrit, so this is a fairly frequent occurrence. The interior of the Blue Maid is thoroughly modern, with plenty of new wood on floors, in the seats and on the bar back. The bar counter is a pleasing wooden top with modern grey paint on the front and sides. A vast array of beer taps includes three hand pumps centrally placed, and the beer list shows that these are all priced at £5 a pint. My half of Five Points Best (NBSS 4) was so good I can't believe it's the same beer that was served to me a few years ago in their brewery tap - obviously it's not the same beer, but it's changed so much from the amateurish, overfresh approximation of a beer from 2018 to what I now think of as the best beer I know of that is brewed in London.
On 25th September 2025
- rating: 7
[User has posted 4910 recommendations about 4493 pubs]
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Moby Duck left this review about The Blue Maid
A long single room with a small raised section at the rear accessed via a couple of steps. The decor is basic with a few random prints here and there mounted on the ivory coloured upper walls, the lower walls being modern wood panels. The hard surfaces mean the acoustics are not great. Any downsides are more than tempered by a good beer selection with twenty four craft taps and three hand pulls, on cask were Five Points Best, Howling Hops Small Batch Mild and Burning Sky Plateau, all priced at £5.00, pretty good for London.
A decent pub and may become a frequently visited one.
On 4th June 2025
- rating: 7
[User has posted 2409 recommendations about 2372 pubs]
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London Bridge, 0.51 miles, 9 min walk (show)
London Cannon Street, 0.76 miles, 14 min walk (show)
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- Accommodation : No last updated 13 April 2025 by Tris C
- Bar Billiards : No last updated 13 April 2025 by Tris C
- Beer Festivals : No last updated 13 April 2025 by Tris C
- Beer Garden : No - Limited pavement seating. - last updated 13 April 2025 by Tris C
- CAMRA Discount : No last updated 13 April 2025 by Tris C
- Car Park : No last updated 13 April 2025 by Tris C
- Darts : No last updated 13 April 2025 by Tris C
- Function Room : No last updated 13 April 2025 by Tris C
- Hot Food : No last updated 13 April 2025 by Tris C
- Jukebox : No last updated 13 April 2025 by Tris C
- Karaoke : No last updated 13 April 2025 by Tris C
- Live Music : No last updated 13 April 2025 by Tris C
- Live TV Sports : No last updated 13 April 2025 by Tris C
- Micropub : No last updated 13 April 2025 by Tris C
- Pinball : No last updated 13 April 2025 by Tris C
- Pool Table : No last updated 13 April 2025 by Tris C
- Quiz Night : No last updated 13 April 2025 by Tris C
- Real Ale : Yes last updated 13 April 2025 by Tris C
- Wheelchair Access : No - WCs downstairs. - last updated 13 April 2025 by Tris C
- WiFi : Yes last updated 13 April 2025 by Tris C
