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Shutters, Chancery Lane, WC2
WC2
EC4A 1HL
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Just a quick pint, then I'm off left this review about Grand Union Chancery Lane
If you like upmarket watering holes, the Library Bar is a compact - if very well appointed - place with comfortable furniture and tasteful wood-panelled decor. Also has a larger basement bar - not in use when I popped in, late one afternoon - and a few wooden benches beside the Rolls Passage entrance (with another door off Cursitor Street). Building works going on when I visited so menu withdrawn for a few weeks. Not much cop on the beer front, though, with just Heineken, Amstel, Krušovice (£5.20), Guinness and Symonds cider on the solitary keg fount.
On 5th March 2017
- rating: 5
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Real Ale Ray left this review about
The Grand Union is accessible from Curistor St or Rolls Passage. We visited from the Rolls passage entrance, where we encountered a small canopy covered terrace with some low tables and seating. Once through the doors the bar faces you on the left hand side. The walls were wallpapered with a colourful floral pattern. The lighting was low and the tables along the windows were on candle power. There were two hand pumps serving up a Deuchers IPA and a Grand Union Ale also from Deuchers. A few people dining on our visit.
On 6th January 2014
- rating: 6
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Old Blue left this review about The Blue Anchor
A sign outside says the Blue Anchor was established in 1749 on the corner of Chancery Lane and moved here when the area was redeveloped. Its current setup is slightly unusual, and I thought looked pretty grim from the outside but felt very comfortable once inside. One entrance from Rolls Passage is to the ground floor bar, a smallish affair bounded by wood panels, bookshelves, etc, with about seven tables of various sizes, the larger ones being ‘reserved for groups of four or more’, and a couple more tables outside. Or you can go downstairs to the slightly larger cellar bar, to which the other entrance from Cursitor Street also leads.
Levels of custom seem to vary though I’ve found it has a consistently friendly feel to it, with welcoming and efficient service. The ale range is unexciting, being a choice of Pride or GK IPA from the two upstairs pumps, and I think Bombardier is also available in the cellar bar. A decent enough pint of Pride at £3.50. The menu offers mains at around £8-10. There were three people eating when I was last there, one of whom left a barely touched and not very appetising looking plate, but the other two seemed quite happy.
Despite several contrary indications I quite like to drop into this place for a pint or two, finding it a more relaxing experience than most others locally.
On 22nd October 2011
- rating: 6
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Steve C left this review about The Blue Anchor
I wandered down to the cellar bar which had some jazz music playing and unbeknown to me it was closed, but the friendly maid still stopped what she was doing to serve me and then give me directions to the street level bar up the stairs. This was a shame as this bar wasn't as nice and many of the tables were reserved meaning that I ended up standing in the alley outside with my pint resting on a pillar.
Bombardier and Greene King IPA were both available and there was another unused pump and a standard draught selection.
There are local pubs that I would choose to visit over this one.
On 8th October 2009
- rating: 5
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Rex Rattus left this review about The Blue Anchor
This is a nice enough little pub tucked away down an alleyway off Chancery Lane. Nothing unusual in the way of ales, but the London Pride was OK. The pub itself is fairly small but is made larger by the front of the pub opening up (during decent weather only I suppose) and the utilisation of some outside seating. Must have been a simple backstreet boozer at some stage, but now moved a bit upmarket, which is not surprising in this part of the world. Nevertheless it's a decent enough little pub. There are a lot worse places to stop for a drink.
On 29th September 2007
- rating: 5
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