Lowlander, WC2

Lowlander is a Dutch and Belgian beer bar / café situated on Drury lane opened in 2001 Impressive range of some 15 chrome beer dispensers along the bar top and then an extensive collection of bottled beers available, although they looked more Belgium than Dutch to me. The usual Trappist and Monastery beers are supported by a decent range of blonde beers, golden ales, Lambics and Flemish Red ales. But a lot are 6% and upwards and the 8%+ beers will set you back in excess of £5.50 a glass. So a good choice of beers, but I wasn’t taken by the layout of the place, one square space mainly laid to tables in lines across, and couldn’t work out if it was trying to be a bar, a restaurant or a café, especially as there was an extensive food menu available with mains in the £15.00 area, but the ambience was more of a corner café and not conducive of a restaurant where I would be expecting to pay that food ticket price. Anyway, we managed to get a corner table and wiled away a bit of time over a decent Flemish red, and consoled the pain in my wallet with the fact that we were watching the world go by a stone’s throw from Covent Garden.

Official site of Lowlander, contains menu and beer list - www.lowlander.com

Randomness Guide to London - Lowlander entry

Randomness Guide to London - Lowlander entry

Official site of Lowlander, contains menu and beer list - www.lowlander.com