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The Dog & Duck, Soho, W1
Soho
W1
W1D 3AJ
Dog & Duck pub #soho
IT'S HERE! Our summer gin festival has started! Come along and choose your favourite one! We have plenty!… https://t.co/z3OfGnRfI7
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Will Larter left this review about The Dog & Duck
This was part of my planned tour of heritage pubs in London, so I really wanted to like this pub. It's a Nicholson's pub with some very nice tiles, mirrors and woodwork (see link to Camra's heritage site below). It also has what my notes made at the timne described as "impossible to avoid pop music - loudspeakers in every corner". There were four beers on the bar (see photo) and I went for Black Sheep Fresh Start, which was only just up to scratch (a fairly generous NBSS 3).
Date of visit: 17th January 2023
On 15th January 2024
- rating: 4
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Tris C left this review about The Dog & Duck
Visited by Rossetti, Constable and Orwell, though possibly a first for me, as my recollections of the area when I worked here over thirty years ago are hazy, primarily as a result of using the hostelries extensively.
This is a stunning pub, best appreciated on CAMRA’s site, with wonderful polychromatic glazed tiles and some of the most ornate mirrors I’ve ever seen, oddly advertising neither the pub, brewery nor alcoholic beverages: Archer’s cigarettes, Hooper & Struve’s mineral waters (prior to making gasmasks) and Nicholson’s gin, but although this is a Nicholson’s pub, at the time the company was wholly concerned in the business of distilling. It’s rumoured that there’s a working fireplace here, but given the size, the occupants would probably get barbecued. There’s an upstairs room, but getting to it through the crowds was an ordeal.
It’s absolutely tiny in here and very full; the jostling wasn’t appealing from the customers who are probably office workers or tourists; music was quite loud, but this is Soho.
Ales: three unused pumps, then Pride, Doom, Nicholson’s Pale Ale and Landlord at a very pricey £2.90 a half.
This is a cracking little pub which gets an '8' for the interior, but probably warrants a '6' for the experience. I’d come here again, but I was starting to suffer from a heritage overdose, this being my third National Inventory pub in 70 minutes.
On 9th October 2021
- rating: 8
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Graham Coombs left this review about The Dog & Duck
A small corner Nicholson's pub with a superb historic interior, noted as a haunt of George Orwell. The tiny bar has a little room behind with excellent ceramics, while there is more space upstairs in the dining room. A splendid range of beers was on offer but I didn't get past the Siren Broken Dream Breakfast Stout, which was in fine condition. Certainly my favourite pub in the area.
On 17th March 2019
- rating: 8
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- Official pages of the Dog & Duck, contains menu and real ale details - www.nicholsonspubs.co.uk
- Randomness Guide to London - Dog And Duck entry
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- CAMRA WhatPub :: The Dog & Duck - whatpub.com
- Historic Pub Interiors - pubheritage.camra.org.uk
London Euston, 1.39 miles, 26 min walk (show)
London Waterloo, 1.45 miles, 28 min walk (show)
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- Accommodation : No last updated 17 March 2019 by Graham Coombs
- Bar Billiards : No last updated 17 March 2019 by Graham Coombs
- Beer Festivals : No last updated 17 March 2019 by Graham Coombs
- Beer Garden : No last updated 17 March 2019 by Graham Coombs
- CAMRA Discount : No last updated 17 March 2019 by Graham Coombs
- Car Park : No last updated 17 March 2019 by Graham Coombs
- Darts : No last updated 17 March 2019 by Graham Coombs
- Hot Food : Yes last updated 29 July 2013 by Dave McNally
- Jukebox : No last updated 17 March 2019 by Graham Coombs
- Karaoke : No last updated 17 March 2019 by Graham Coombs
- Live Music : No last updated 17 March 2019 by Graham Coombs
- Live TV Sports : No last updated 08 October 2021 by Tris C
- Micropub : No last updated 17 March 2019 by Graham Coombs
- Pinball : No last updated 17 March 2019 by Graham Coombs
- Pool Table : No last updated 17 March 2019 by Graham Coombs
- Quiz Night : No last updated 08 October 2021 by Tris C
- Real Ale : Yes last updated 29 July 2013 by Dave McNally
- Real Cider : No last updated 17 October 2014 by Blackthorn _
- Wheelchair Access : No last updated 17 March 2019 by Graham Coombs
- WiFi : Yes last updated 17 March 2019 by Graham Coombs
