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The Dolphin, WC1

47 Tonbridge Street
Kings Cross
WC1
WC1H 9DW

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St Pancras, Bloomsbury, Kings Cross

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Bucking Fastard left this review about The Dolphin

Really quite close to St Pancras/King Cross which is just over the road,this street corner Irish pub is a proper old school boozer with a two room layout.The left side is a square public bar with a few high tables,a drinking shelf and flatscreens showing rugby league on my saturday evening visit and lots of room for vertical drinking.Through a door is a larger lounge,still very basic with a small raised section,overbright lighting and besides some Guiness adverts ,some Toon memorabilia.Bench seating with brittania tables yet also lots of room for vertical drinking.
As you might expect no real ale,not everyone on the Guiness and I ordered a half of Neck Oil,a serving size that is not possible in an Irish pub ,so a pint it was at £7.Lots of couples in the lounge ,which soon resulted in the women gossiping at the seats,their men drinking vertically at the bar.
You dont have to be Irish to enjoy this pub,but it is a basic boozer,friendly without the irishness shoved down your throat.Fine for some keg beer ,like Guiness just dont order a half !.

On 13^th October 2024 - rating: 6
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Moby Duck left this review about The Dolphin

A two room Irish forward pub, ably described as ever by Pub SignMan. No real ale on when I visited leaving just a standard keg lineup with a couple of craft options of which I chose Salt Jute. A nice enough looking pub but the generaly mundane beer lineup brings the score down.

On 10^th July 2023 - rating: 6
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Pub SignMan left this review about The Dolphin

This is a two room backstreet boozer, with a great location, just over the Euston Road from St Pancras station. Entering through the corner door, you find yourself in a small public bar - a rather basic space with bare boards, plain painted walls and the servery to the rear. Seating is limited to a few high tables and stools and a few old boys were perched at various points around the room, watching the live cricket on the TV screens whilst a 60;s and 70;s country music soundtrack played over the top. The bar has a tongue and groove panelled counter and modest bar back with some inlaid gold lettering across the top. A door to the right leads past a staircase that goes down to the toilets, and on into the larger lounge bar. This room is also bare boarded, and has low wood panelled walls with dated floral wallpaper above - the paper looks like it has been here since some of the country tunes that were playing were recorded! Nice curved padded banquettes along two walls make for comfy seating options, whilst to the rear, there’s a drinking ledge with high stools and another around a central pillar. A TV screen in here remained off, with visual distraction instead coming from old photos, whiskey mirrors, Guinness memorabilia, a cabinet full of miniature figures and houses, various random certificates and a map of Ireland. A surprising amount of pavement seating is also available, should the weather permit.
Just two cask options here, and the Greene King IPA was off when I arrived, leaving Sharps Doom bar as the only alternative. I was served a middling pint by a proper old-school landlord who was somewhat short on formalities.
I only visited this pub as a result of a recommendation by the barmaid at the London Welsh Centre, who said I might enjoy the interior. Well, I certainly did, as it has a real timewarp feel about it, especially in the evocative lounge bar, which you can imagine being packed in days gone by, but in which I was the sole customer on this occasion. The lack of decent beer options would be a serious prohibitor for me to return, as much as I like the pub itself, but it seems to serve a few locals well and that might be all they need to keep things ticking along.

On 30^th October 2022 - rating: 6
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