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Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese, Fleet Street, EC4

145 Fleet Street
EC4
EC4A 2BU

Phone: 02073536170

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Fleet Street

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Just a quick pint, then I'm off left this review about Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese

Rambling historic inn with various rooms on four levels (although not all of them are always open). Characterful wood-panelled bar and Chop Room on each side of the somewhat hidden entrance off the narrow side alleyway, with the larger rear Cheshire Bar in the covered courtyard beyond. These were very busy on a pre-Christmas Thursday evening, so headed downstairs to the somewhat quieter cellar bar. Numerous handpumps on the different bar counters; but, as a Sam Smiths house, they usually only dispense OBB, but on this long-overdue revisit I was on a quest to find the rarely produced Yorkshire Stingo (£8.00) which was in great shape and really suited the season.

On 27^th December 2024 - rating: 8
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Delboy 20 left this review about Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese

Another one of those pubs that you just have to visit. It was a red hot day so the coolness of one of the many cellar rooms was most welcome.
Sam Smiths beers. Having already had an OBB elsewhere, I had a change and tried a bottle of their Organic Lager which was quite refreshing.
A must see pub!

On 19^th June 2023 - no rating submitted
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Steve of N21 left this review about Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese

Being back in Fleet Street I decided to look this old friend up again for a late afternoon pint. Sadly the larger downstairs bar was not open (probably not enough tourists back in London yet to justify it) so had to queue in the small bar to the right which still had its roaring open fire going despite it being the hottest and sunniest day of the year so far.
Decamped to one of the upstairs room to be joined by a London Walk tour party of mainly Americans and overheard one describing how it was cheaper for him to fly to London than it was to go from New York to Miami at the moment so they may be back soon.
I’ve never found this to be a comfortable pub visit, but as a piece of London drinking history, you just can’t beat it.

On 5^th April 2022 - no rating submitted
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