Old Street

The Angel

73 City Road, London, EC1Y 1BD

Date of Visit : 31st May 2005
Approx. Time of Visit: 5.15pm

Route Used: DLR to Bank then Northern
Distance Traveled : 4.19 miles

Guests: None
Clientele: Old fellas and layabouts

Pub Number : 027

Characteristics	Rating	Comments
Ambience		Slightly smoky and just some fellas watching cricket
Facilities		Very good, two large SKY screens, 2 smaller TV's. a jukebox, 2 fruits, cash machine, dartboard and a pool table (£1.00)! Just missing a quiz machine really
Ladies		No barmaid, one OK woman in a suit, one bad woman in a green suit

OVERALL

Fine for a typical East London pub

Just time for a cheeky couple after work, so we headed to Old Street. The station has many exits and after a rejection of two possibles as non-qualifiers, we stumbled upon the Angel, best reached from exit 14. This is an old style East London pub and is quite big and airy. We ordered our pints and Tim immediately raised the barman's suspicions when querying about the price of individual pints. We quickly made our way upstairs to the upper bar. Here we found the nice combo of a pool table and a small outside beer "garden". A quick game of pool later (JJ win) and we headed back downstairs to do our marking. The barman was still on tenterhooks, so I deliberately taunted him by obviously making notes, we supped up and left the now-paranoid vendor, and headed off, eager to get to Angel before hometime.

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