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Roger writes:
Belgian bar in a pedestrian passage. Sometimes full, sometimes empty; it seems to depend a lot on the time of week. Fairly pricey.
Start with de Koninck (permanently on draught), then ask for recommendations. Pints of chips (with mayonnaise) are also recommended.
Can be hard to find if you haven't been there before. Start from Farringdon Station. Turn left out of the station into Cowcross Street, and left again up Turnmill Street. You'll walk slightly uphill with the railway tracks on your left (behind a wall). When you get to the first bridge across the tracks (Clerkenwell Road), turn right and cross the road at your convenience. Pass a garage on the left. You'll arrive at a square set back from the road, on the left; enter this, and near the back left corner look for an alley leading directly away from the road. In this alley, Jerusalem Passage, is the Dovetail.

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Dovetail Sekforde Arms Jerusalem Tavern Ye Olde Mitre Pakenham Arms Calthorpe Arms Wenlock Arms Belgo Kingsway Lord John Russell Toh Bang (formerly New Seoul) Kimchee Antalya Abeno Okonomiyaki Dovetail Sekforde Arms Jerusalem Tavern Ye Olde Mitre Pakenham Arms Toh Bang (formerly New Seoul) Dovetail Sekforde Arms Jerusalem Tavern Dovetail Sekforde Arms Jerusalem Tavern
50 yards WbN: Clerkenwell Green, Clerkenwell
100 yards NNW: Sekforde Arms
200 yards SbE: Jerusalem Tavern
300 yards EbS: Berry Street, Clerkenwell
350 yards WbN: Farringdon Lane, Clerkenwell
400 yards NEbE: Sadlers Sports Centre, Finsbury
400 yards WSW: Hatton Wall, Holborn
450 yards SSW: Farringdon (British Rail, Circle Line, Hammersmith & City Line, Metropolitan Line)
0.3 miles WbS: Toh Bang (formerly New Seoul)
0.3 miles SE: Barbican (Circle Line, Hammersmith & City Line, Metropolitan Line)
0.4 miles SSW: Ye Olde Mitre
0.5 miles S: City Thameslink (British Rail)
0.5 miles WNW: Pakenham Arms
0.5 miles SW: Chancery Lane (Central Line)
0.5 miles WbN: Calthorpe Arms
0.6 miles NbW: Angel (Northern Line)
0.6 miles SWbW: Kimchee
0.7 miles SSE: St. Paul's (Central Line)
0.7 miles EbN: Old Street (British Rail, Northern Line)
0.7 miles ESE: Moorgate (British Rail, Circle Line, Hammersmith & City Line, Metropolitan Line, Northern Line)
0.8 miles SWbW: Holborn (Central Line, Piccadilly Line)
0.9 miles WbS: Antalya
0.9 miles SEbS: Bank (Central Line, Docklands Light Railway, Northern Line, Waterloo & City Line)
0.9 miles NWbW: King's Cross Thameslink (British Rail)
1.0 miles SEbS: Cannon Street (British Rail, Circle Line, District Line)
1.0 miles WSW: Abeno Okonomiyaki
1.0 miles NWbW: King's Cross St. Pancras (British Rail, Circle Line, Hammersmith & City Line, Metropolitan Line, Northern Line, Piccadilly Line, Victoria Line)