Fodor's Expert Review The Blackfriar

The City Historical Fodor's Choice

A step from Blackfriars Tube station, this spectacular pub has an Arts and Crafts interior that is entertainingly, satirically ecclesiastical, with inlaid mother-of-pearl, wood carvings, stained glass, and marble pillars all over the place. Under finely lettered temperance tracts on view just below the reliefs of monks, fairies, and friars, there is a nice group of ales on tap from independent brewers. The 20th-century poet Sir John Betjeman once led a successful campaign to save the pub from demolition.

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Quick Facts

174 Queen Victoria St.
London, Greater London  EC4V 4EG, England

020-7236–5474

www.nicholsonspubs.co.uk

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