The Kings Head, 33 Moscow Road

This pub, located near London’s Greek Orthodox cathedral, is named after King Charles I, the king who met an untimely end outside Whitehall Palace in 1649. It is a traditional style establishment, but what marks it are the bar staff and the impressive ales which included, on this visit, Theakston’s Old Peculier. Perhaps unwisely given the hour of the day, I duly ordered a pint. After the first mouthfuls of the dark brown liquid had reached my stomach, a familiar feeling of warmth arose. This was followed by a numbness that drifted into my brain like an autumn mist. The pub hummed with the discourse of its clientele whilst the juke box emitted a full-mulletted fuzz of eighties rock ballads. A fug of nicotine fumes drifted in through the front door closely followed by a collection of men dressed like Jeremy Clarkson (sporting the obligatory blue jeans and suit-jacket uniform). I imagined that in the eighties their balding heads were probably covered in a mane of hair that would have made Pat Sharpe envious. Realizing that I had begun to enter the hallucinogenic world of Old Peculier, I decided that some fresh air was in order and decided to leave this fine pub behind.

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