Live music at Filthy MacNasty's
London's best Irish pubs
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By Time Out Editors
Updated: Thu Mar 5 2009 -
Although March 17 falls on a Tuesday this year, don‘t let that dampen your celebrations. Here are the capital's best Irish boozers
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Coach & Horses
42 Wellington Street, Covent Garden, WC2E 7BD
A genuine expat Irish pub that boasts more than 70 malts and whiskeys from either side of the Irish Sea.
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Filthy McNasty's
68 Amwell Street, Islington, EC1R 1UU
This boozer is the epitome of smart slumming, and is often brimming with would-be inebriates. Read more
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Porterhouse
21-22 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, WC2E 7NA
A labrynthine pub where the brews are serious and include Dublin-brewed stouts. Read more
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Royal Exchange
26 Sale Place, Bayswater, W2 1PU
An Irish-run pub which is a handy walking distance from Paddington station. It serves two kinds of Guinness. Read more
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Tipperary
66 Fleet Street, City, EC4Y 1HT
London’s first Irish pub with a history that stretches back centuries. Sample the oysters and Champagne or the hard-to-find Mitchell & Son’s Green Spot whiskey.
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Water Poet
Water Poet, 9-11 Folgate St, Shoreditch, E1 6BX
At this Spitalfields gastropub, Irish chef Bernadette Forde will be serving a St Patrick’s Day menu on Tuesday. Expect Dublin Bay prawns, soda bread and beef, oyster and Guinness pie. Read more
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Waxy O'Connors
14-16 Rupert Street, Chinatown, W1D 6DD
The bar serves Irish food until 10pm. There’s also pints of Caffreys, Guinness, Murphy’s or Beamish.
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8 comments
If you live in North London near Crouch End / Muswell Hill area, there is a great band playing at the Granuaile Pub. It's between the clock tower and Horney Station, It's gonna be a Cracing good time! Starts around 8ish i think.
www.myspace.com/tipsygypsiesband
The Faltering Fullback looks good tomorrow, stew for free, black velvet and music. And the Mother Red Cap, Quays and Sweeneys are good bets on Holloway Road. Should be music at each.
Presumably there is plenty going on in Kilburn and Cricklewood too!
THE BOSTON ARMS!
cailin deas is right... this is a bizarre, incomplete and presumably paid-for-by-advertising list...
the sheep is a top quality pub (ex-landlord from the oxford in camden town) and for anyone that's more islington/holloway inclined there's the mother redcap and quays bar (both on holloway road)
sue, the mother redcap is a good bet for music, though i suspect any of the pubs mentioned in the comments above will have put on a decent show...
come come, time out... we must do better... surely your correspondant who's currently travelling the entire city by bus has spotted more interesting pubs than this?
How out of touch are Time Out with this Plastic Paddy nonsense?
I suppose it keeps all those clueless middle class (*^+s out of my local.
Stick with Gastro-Pub reviews Time Out so you can continue your quest to ensure the demise of every decent London Boozer.
How was the whole of north London - the most traditional of Irish stamping grounds - omitted?
Try the Sheephaven Bay in Mornington Crescent for great pints, food and staff. Or Quinns in Kentish Town, which is a bit grimey but family run and with a magic fridge full of German and Belgian beers. And I'm sure there might just be one or two decent Irish pubs around Cricklewood and Kilburn...
There are dozens of genuinely Irish pubs around London - either frequented by or run by the Irish - and you choose to go with Waxy O'Connors?
Try The Faltering Fulback in Finsbury Park, The Claddagh Ring in Hendon, The Red Lions in Teddington or Twickenham, The Fulwell Arms in Twickenham
is there any irish music happening on St. Paddy's Day? thanks,