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Museum Tavern

49 Great Russell Street, WC1B 3BA Full details & map

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By Time Out Editors Posted: Jul 8 2010

Inevitably pandering to tourists who flock to the British Museum opposite - note the £5 T-shirts behind the bar - this attractive, traditional hostelry also appeals to Londoners with a taste for decent ales.

Harvey's Sussex Best, Timothy Taylor Landlord, Theakston Old Peculiar, Daleside Spring Frenzy, Young's Gold, Hobgoblin and Fuller's London Pride line a bar counter also stocked with Hendrick's gin, Cockburn's port, Pimm's, and Glenmorangie, Laphroaig and Talisker whiskies - British or what?

These bottles beckon before a beautiful gilt-mirrored back bar, evidence of the major mid-1800s refurb of this tavern, then the Dog & Duck, which has been operating from the 1700s (when this area was surrounded by marshes, and not crocodiles of cagouled Italians and the stench of over-priced hot dogs). The food - soup, pie, sausage, roast, puddings - exudes homely familiarity.

Tags: Historic, Local flavour, Speciality beers, Central, Bloomsbury, Pub

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Museum Tavern details

Address

Museum Tavern

49 Great Russell Street WC1B 3BA

Transport Holborn or Tottenham Court Road tube

Telephone

020 7242 8987

Open 11am-11.30pm Mon-Thur; 11am-midnight Fri, Sat; noon-10pm Sun. Food served noon-9.30pm Mon-Sat; noon-9pm Sun

Credit cards AmEx, MC, V

Facilities

Tables outdoors ( 8, pavement ), Babies and children admitted ( until 5pm )

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