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N:The Museum Tavern
FN:The Museum Tavern
TEL;WORK;VOICE:020 7242 8987
ADR;WORK:;;49 Great Russell Street;WC1B 3BA
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NOTE:Sitting opposite the main entrance to the British Museum, I didn't expect too much from this. It has a suspiciously olde worlde look about it: mottled glass and an abundance of hanging foliage, signs extorting its traditional pub food (at traditional tourist-fleecing prices) and outside tables that get used even in winter. It had always seemed to be nothing more than a giant Tourist Trap; in they would go and their pockets would be emptied for a half of flaccid John Smith's and a radioactive baby cod smothered in undercooked batter, served up with all the panache of the Eastbourne Conservative Club. I was wrong. While the food is indeed pricy, the drinks aren't so bad and they have a range of Belgian bottled beer for the more choosy amongst us. The decoration inside is splendidly baroque and not half as fake-plastic-Victoriana as I had feared. Sitting there listening to the quiet hum of about twenty different languages being spoken around me, I realised that I was actually enjoying myself.
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