The Globe

Great little pub for office workers. It gets very busy from around 5pm onwards during the week. The drinks for this part of London are very reasonably priced, with a round for 4 people coming to less than £20.
The service is quick and friendly and they will ask if you intend to drink inside or outside — outside drinkers are given plastic glasses. The pub features a piano, which punters are welcome to play and there’s a separate dining area upstairs for those ordering food.
My only real complaint is the steep flight of stairs you have to walk down in order to get to the toilets. Aside from that, this is a nice little boozer with plenty of drink choices at more than reasonable prices for central London.

Great food, reasonably priced, and clean tables and chairs. Comfy and warm — can’t ask for more :)

I wouldn’t really rate this place too highly. So I didn’t rate it very highly…
Went for lunch. Were out of lots of things in the menu.
That’s ok. I get that. If you’re busy, you run out. We’re looking like 4 stars.
I ordered a burger but no drink. My friend has gotten me one. They charged me £8.95.
Still looking 4 stars.
I got to the table and saw beer and a burger. All day every day. £7.
Now we’re at 2 stars.
The burger also wasn’t very good.
The pie is good though. Maybe if I had pie it would be 4 stars. Who knows.

Typical Nicholsons brewery pub. Good food menu on offer. Burgers and sausages on their way. Great selection of real ales on tap. Upstairs was closed so only sat downstairs but not too busy considering its a Saturday afternoon

Da ich beruflich oft in der Gegend unterwegs bin hat es sich zu meinem Stamm-​Pub entwickelt! Tolles Ambiente, viele Biersorten (man darf auch vorab probieren, wenn man nur fragt) und gutes Essen.

As a restaurant, this place leaves a lot to be desired. I went there with a colleague after work and we were not impressed. Her salmon was good, but she would have enjoyed getting a piece that was more than four bites. My veggie burger was better, it had a nice crispy crust that was unfortunately slathered in a thick cream sauce that dominated it. I also ordered onion rings that arrived so greasy that I just returned them. When I cut into them the outer «shell» splintered, revealing a soggy, dripping brown thing that I can only guess was once an onion. But who knows?
My guess is that this place leans more to the drinking side and the food is just for late nights when it doesn’t really matter. If you’re sober though…

This is easily the best pub in the area. A massive selection of ales served in one of two bars. There is a decent sized room upstairs too.
It’s not perfect though. The bar that has the best choice of beers takes an age to get some service at in comparison to the main bar, where the beverage procurement is actually pretty speedy considering how busy the pub gets. The door arrangement to get to the toilets is a bit of a head scratcher too.

Moorgate is not particularly blessed with great pubs the few ones I liked, such as a couple of pubs on the highwalk alongside London Wall, have shut down along with many pubs in London.
But The Globe is pretty good. And most of all, a pint of cider is £3.85, which is probably the main reason I come here. Lager (Peroni, and something called Suffolk) is a bit pricier, but with cider this cheap in the city I am a happy man. I have at least one pint here, at least three times a week.
The Globe is also one of those pubs where it’s worth joining their mailing list (give them a business card), as you end up with tasty offers in your email (such as two main courses for £10, which is pretty good considering one main course is usually about £8). The fish and chips is really rather good, as is in fact all the food I have eaten here. They have a nice restaurant upstairs, although I tend to choose to stay downstairs as it’s nearer the street so I can dash outside for a cigarette every few minutes.
Another plus is the fact that they accept credit cards, even if you’re having just one pint (ie there’s no minimum spend). And the fact that Keats was actually born here adds another level of history.
But every pub has its downside, and at the Globe (or the Keats, depending on which half of the pub you are sitting in) it is the music. No, it’s not loud. It’s just ALWAYS THE SAME! They clearly have the same two CDs on repeat all day, every day. If I hear again Matt Cardle’s When we collide followed by Adele’s Someone like you followed by aaaagh, I even know the songlist in order! It can be really annoying, especially as I don’t really like these songs. I guess it’s because they have paid for the royalties to play these CDs but please, put in a jukebox or something so that we have a little more variety!
But there again, since I spend most of my time there outside chugging on a fag, I can deal with the music issue. And at cider that price in the City of London, anything is bearable.

A nice, upscale Nicholson’s pub in Moorgate. About 10 casks. Alright selection, and on my visit I found a special Thornbridge beer, which I liked. Decent prices. Nice ambiance, but not a classical pub. More of a modern pub. Worth a visit.

Stop #7– Moorgate
An easy walk down from Barbican and you arrive at Moorgate. Here there aren’t too many pubs to choose from: O’Neills on London Wall, Railway Tavern at Liverpool St, and the Globe just outside Moorgate station. When in doubt, go where the Bard would (at least that’s my reasoning).
I’ve actually been here a few times for a quick pint after work/​class and it’s usually a good place. During the winter months it gets a bit crowded inside but has the benefit of an large (for central London) grassy area just outside where you can take your pint. However, if you get there early enough there are quite a few tables/​booths to use as well. There are two entrances which almost fool you into thinking there are two pubs!
Service is always cheerful and the atmosphere is great (half old man pub and half trendy boozer… odd mix I know). We cracked in, ordered a few rounds, and were out in the space of 5 minutes. That’s just the type of service you want on a marathon pub crawl!
Drink of choice: A light and easy pear cider to refresh you.

I spend time here because of its close proximity to work. It’s a typical Nicholson’s pub — — which means it carries Suffolk Blonde on draft, Yes!
Nothing really sets this place apart from anywhere else, yet because of its location its business will continue to boom Monday to Friday and be dead empty on the weekends.
When it’s nice out — — great large area to stand outside and enjoy a pint in the sun.

Not nearly as bad as I thought it would be!
We wanted a meeting point right next to Moorgate station and the trusty Unilocal!app told me this was the very closest.
It’s a Nicholson’s pub so it’s fitted out tastefully, has a great range of beers and ales and, on this particularly freezing and snowy day, was serving mulled wine. Perfecto. The food menu looked good and I’ve had Nicholson’s food before, albeit elsewhere, and it’s usually tasty fare.
The downsides? Well, this was City on a Friday evening wasn’t it. It was pretty rammed. And I just don’t understand it when a pub is akin to a game of Sardines downstairs when there is a completely empty dining room upstairs, for dining only. Who’s going to eat above a pub in the City with everything else on offer? SIlly really. Just use the space better, you numpties.
Oh and it’s fully of City twats. I rolled my eyes far too many times to recount in here at the woeful chat and banter of these chimps. One guy insisted on using the phrase «He’s a top shagger» at every opportunity. What a twunt.

I work nearby and been here a few times. The beer’s not bad — the ales anyway — and it’s affordable. That’s about all the nice things I can say. On my after-​work visit tonight my GF’s wine’s was warm, the waitress was snotty, especially after asking for a colder white wine, the red wine replacement was rough and served in a plastic half pint glass, and there was a slightly knobby vibe. If I hadn’t been before and it’d been ok, it would have a one star place.

A Nicholsons pub on Moorgate. Serves a good selection of ales downstairs and has another bar around the corner and even more dining space and another bar upstairs. Beer selection upstairs is a bit more limited.
Went there on a wet afternoon for lunch with mates. £7 for bangers and mash, as they were of the fancy «Scottish venison, juniper berry and gin» variety. Nice mash plus the gravy and onion flakes had them located at the ‘good’ end of my bangers and mash rating scale.
I’d go back there but as most other reviews say, there’s more out there and if you don’t work nearby it’s certainly not a place to go out of your way to visit.

Basic City pub — very popular with people that work in the area and there are always crowds of people standing outside with their drinks at lunchtime or after work. It can get very crowded inside as it’s so popular.
The pub is nothing special, but it is cheap compared to the majority of City bars and pubs and it’s very conveniently located on Moorgate about a minute’s walk from the tube station.

Decent pub, nothing special but nothing bad either. Prices are rather reasonable (and much cheaper than those ‘City’ bars in the area), but there are so many other places with more character and not looking as shabby.
Locationwise it is amazing, and in the summer there is a massive square of sidewalk outside to drink outdoors.

If you had to design a completely stereotypical city pub, this would be an ideal blueprint. Completely non-​descript in almost every way. Standard beers, standard décor, standard food, and even more standard patrons. Still it gets very busy with the afterwork crowd, especially in the summer when dozens of people spill out onto the pavement. If your idea of a perfect pub lunch is a burger washed down with a pint of Stella, then you might enjoy the Globe. If not I’d head elsewhere.

To me this bar is nothing special. It’s quite spacious, which means nothing when you have to queue for 15 minutes at the bar to get a drink, you can’t get a seat and you’re struggling to keep a space without someone knocking over your drink.
OK so it’s not always like that, but it gets like that a lot. if you get in there early its not so bad, but still you have to queue at the bar. During the summer it’s nice to buy a drink and sit on a piece of grass outside the bar.
If you’re a city slicker this is probably the place for you, because it’s full of the suited and booted, oh, and cocky. And its ridiculously expensive, but again thats just a city thing.