Rather than carrying a picnic bag into Easter services at St. Pauls, we would like to find someplace cheap (£7 to £8 each)to eat lunch in the St. Pauls, Chancery Lane, or Holborn tube stop areas. Would appreciate any ideas. Thanks. Judy
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London
291 posts
Try the Shakespeare's Head by Holborn tube in Kingsway. Like all Weatherspoons pubs they do a Sunday Roast special. Full roast dinner beef, pork or chicken with yorkshire pudding and the full works with any alcoholic drink usually about 6 GBP each
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http://www.jdwetherspoon.co.uk/pubs/pub-details.php?PubNumber=392
Posted by
Nottingham, UK
658 posts
This is so easy to answer. As you stand on the corner of Holborn and Kingsway walk south towards Aldwych. Just before the corner of Great Queen Street there is a supermarket called Sainsbury's. Go in there and buy a big supply of fresh sandwiches and snacks and drinks. Put them in one of the store's bags and cross over Kingsway. Continue south until you come to Portugal Street. Turn left onto Portugal Street and follow it. After a few hundred yards there is a road that turns off to the left. Take a good look at the shop just over the road to your left. It is 'The Old Curiosity Shop' ( yes the one Dickens wrote about - something most people miss. Have your photograph taken outside it ). Then carry on down Portugal street until you hit Lincoln's Inn Fields. It's a lovely park in the middle of London. Have your picnic, put your stuff in the bins and walk down to Carey Street. On Carey Street there is only one pub, it survived the Great Fire of London, it's the Seven Stars.
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Nottingham, UK
658 posts
It's run by the divine Roxie Beaujolais ( honestly ) and it's something you shouldn't miss. it also serves great beer. Roxie is a great lady and her food is fantastic but the prices are sky high, her beer on the other hand ( particularly Adnams ) is great value. Walk down to Chancery Lane and the rest of the day is your own. Including a half of Adnams in the Seven Stars it will be less than a fiver a head and you get to see one of the most interesting parts of London ( and say Hi to Roxie from me ).
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SF Bay Area, CA
2030 posts
Will these places be open on Easter Sunday?
Posted by
Nottingham, UK
658 posts
The day Roxie doesn't open for business is the day I give up drinking real ale, take the pledge and never let another drop of single malt scotch pass my lips, trade my 1955 Royal Enfield motorcycle for something more sensible, stop watching cricket matches and sell my golf clubs and join a monastary.