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Beer of the Week (w/e 14th December 2025) with Thuck Phat
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Submitted on Wednesday, 3rd December 2025
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The Edgar Wallace, Temple, WC2
WC2
WC2R 3JF
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Reviews of The Edgar Wallace (Average Rating: 8 of 10) see review guidelines
Ian Mapp left this review about The Edgar Wallace
My pub of the day - not least as it had excellent Harveys Best on. Felt instantly at home in this very pubbly single roomer, with more seating upstairs. Every surface, including the ceiling, covered in paraphernalia. A high proportion of it tobacco related. Have you ever been in a pub with cigarette packs and matches glued to the wall.
GBG regular, including 2026. I've tried before, but its only open weekdays. Today was Monday.
On 3rd December 2025
- rating: 8
[User has posted 1714 recommendations about 1688 pubs]
Soup Dragon left this review about The Edgar Wallace
Popped in here for a swift half while waiting for an Uber. Steve's review is still good - with the one roomer decked out in old beer mats (ceiling) with beer and tobacco adverts on the walls... the best of which were the two Double Diamond (works wonders) signs. Good service with a few mature blokes in, there was no music or TVs. Four mixed ales on, with TT Landlord, SA Tribute, Southwark's Bankside Blonde and a really pleasant Harvey's Sussex Best Bitter. I wish I had been able to stay longer, great visit.
On 8th October 2025
- no rating submitted
[User has posted 3110 recommendations about 3105 pubs]
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Steve of N21 left this review about The Edgar Wallace
First visit back to this one post pandemic and found it still to be a good pub but now with a much-reduced ale range from a few years back and also for my visit only four of the eight chrome ale pumps were badged. These were dispensing Purity UBU, Crouch Vale Brewers Gold, St Austell Proper Job and Southwark’s Bankside Blond. Between us we tried all four and all were in very good condition.
The inside of this pub is however completely unchanged and every inch of the ceiling is still covered in one of the most impressive beer mat collections you are likely to see and equally impressive is the collection of period alcohol and smoking product adverts that festoon the walls. And it was good to find the shelf with the collection of Edgar Wallace crime novels still in situ.
So perhaps not the real ale Mecca this was pre pandemic, but it is still a cracking pub.
On 29th March 2023
- rating: 8
[User has posted 2315 recommendations about 2166 pubs]
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- Randomness Guide to London - Edgar Wallace entry
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London Charing Cross, 0.73 miles, 14 min walk (show)
London Blackfriars, 2.21 miles, 42 min walk (show)
Pub Details
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- Bar Billiards : No last updated 28 September 2013 by Quinno _
- Car Park : No last updated 28 September 2013 by Quinno _
- Hot Food : Yes last updated 25 November 2016 by hondo .
- Karaoke : No last updated 28 September 2013 by Quinno _
- Pool Table : No last updated 28 September 2013 by Quinno _
- Real Ale : Yes last updated 25 November 2016 by hondo .
