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Three Jolly Butchers, W1

2 Shepherd Market
W1
W1J 7QF

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Greene King

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Mayfair, Shepherd Market

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David Walton left this review about Three Jolly Butchers

Visited 03/08/26. Visited previously as the Kings Arms on 04/03/19.

Cask here was GK IPA, Abbot, TT LL and their own branded Three Jolly Butchers Ale. Keg was typical range of Peroni, Cruz, Moretti, Camden Hells, Estrella, Amstel, Guinness and three GK offerings of Level Head Session IPA, Hazy Day their fruity IPA and the Flint Eye lager.

Doesn't feel like much has changed here since previous name. Commonly visited pub by me over the years, albeit nowhere near as much as near neighbour Ye Grapes. Cosy traditional pub in Shepherds Market, bare boarded with the bar counter along the right-hand wall. There is a leather banquette at the rear of the ground floor serving a few small tables, some tall tables served by tall unbacked stools in the middle of the floor space and then a few tall tables in the front window served by tall, backed stools. First floor also has a bar counter serving the same drinks and is a mixture of a tile skirt at the bar counter, central part bare boarded and then carpeted where the regular tables are sited and aimed at diners. Tall tables rise on the bare boarded area, with comfier backed stools than those serving the tall tables on the ground floor. The pub doesn't obviously have any screens, and a ridiculously jaunty pop soundtrack was playing on my visit.

On 16^th August 2026 - rating: 5
[User has posted 1975 recommendations about 1937 pubs]

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Tris C left this review about The Kings Arms

Dating from 1742 as the Three Jolly Butchers, the current name dating from 1785, but apparently rebuilt in 1967. Hmmm…
The downstairs interior is small, with a modern boarded floor and certainly the wooden bar array looks newish, with an interesting curved staircase to the left side. Dark grey paint makes it as far as the dado, thereon up it’s pale mushroom to the white Anaglypta ceiling. It’s the chunky, gnarled wooden beams that intrigue; do they really date from ’67 or were they incorporated into a remodelled pub? Furniture is tall and conventional, the whole lit by Victorian-style lighting.
Four ales on: GK IPA, Abbot, London Glory and Portobello Westway Pale at a very pricey £2.75; dull but drinkable.
This isn’t a bad pub, certainly better than the Chesterfield and Market Tavern, but it’s less of a boozer than the Grapes.

On 17^th October 2021 - rating: 5
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Steve of N21 left this review about The Kings Arms

Another of the Shepherds Market former Taylor Walker pubs that is now owned and run by Greene King, this one was heaving both outside and inside on my arrival early Thursday evening in the last working week before Christmas. However they seemed to be coping better than the nearby Shepherds Tavern and three of the four ale pumps were in operation. These were dispensing GK IPA and Abbot with the same guest as in the review below , Portobello West Way Pale Ale, on the third. The West way was OK but it wasn’t too long before I made the short journey to Ye Grapes

On 8^th January 2020 - rating: 6
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