Hammersmith pubs
The town centre is basically a giant traffic island colonised by a shopping precinct and railway station. Escape instead by heading down to the Thames for a drink in one of the riverside pubs.
| Black Lion, 2 South Black Lion Lane, W6 9TJ |
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Telephone: 020 8748 2639
Nearest station: Stamford Brook, Zone 2 (500 metres)
| The Blue Anchor, 13 Lower Mall, Hammersmith, W6 9DJ |
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Ahh Hammersmith, to all intents and purposes a gigantic traffic island with a bland shopping centre at its heart that is connected to the outside world via a series of piss-stained subways. Several of London's most congested roads converge here creating a maelstrom of motoring insanity. What few people realise is that only a few minutes walk away from all this is an entirely different Hammersmith. The Blue Anchor occupies an enviable position on one of the finest stretches of the Thames. Georgian Londoners clearly agreed and a pub was first licensed here in 1722. It is claimed that Gustav Holst was inspired to write his Hammersmith Suite in this very pub. The pub's interior oozes historical charm and smells pleasantly of woodsmoke. On fine days you can sit outside on the riverside terrace and watch people messing about in boats under the elegant structure of Hammersmith Bridge.
Reviewed by Paul Melton, Oct 2005
Telephone: 020 8748 5774
Nearest station: Hammersmith (Met.), Zone 2 (620 metres)
| The Dove, 19 Upper Mall, W6 9TA |
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Telephone: 020 8748 9474
Nearest station: Ravenscourt Park, Zone 2 (550 metres)
| The Hammersmith Ram, 81 King St, W6 9HW |
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There's no escaping the fact that Hammersmith is hideous. Get off the tube and you're faced with a shopping mall. Escape from that and all there is to greet you is a roundabout, some flyovers and lots and lots of traffic. Oh, and violent rich young men with a hideous taste in pubs, often seen roving in Carlinged-up packs through the wasteland of generic shops between the Apollo and the flyovers, shouting and punching things. The rather cautious traditionalionalism of this Young's pub-by-numbers is, in the context of the place, rather welcome. Almost comically vast, with a deadpan approach to How A Pub Should Be, it serves the usual excellent range of Young's beer and some decent food in a quiet atmosphere as determinedly separate from the hooting carnage outside as it is possible to get. Excellent staff and a surreally impressive landlord.
Reviewed by Fred Flange, Oct 2006
Telephone: 020 8748 4511
Nearest station: Hammersmith (Met.), Zone 2 (230 metres)
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