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Crown & Two Chairmen, London

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Operator: Castle (Mitchells & Butlers)
32 Dean Street, Soho, London, W1D 3SB (View on Google Map)
(020) 7437 8192
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A busy corner pub, with lunchtime table service on the first floor. An interesting bar food menu is available through the day, and the main menu includes Sunday roasts.

Don't trip over the resident bearded collie, Maxwell.

Historic Interest

Called the Crown until 1736 it is said to have been re-named after two sedan chair men who would stop by for the proverbial swift 'alf having dropped off Queen Anne (the last reigning Stuart) to have her portrait painted in a studio opposite by Sir James Thornhill. Karl Marx, the great 19th century socialist thinker and communist lived next door to the Crown & Two Chairmen during his "long, sleepless night of exile", and may well have sought inspiration here (or possibly drowned his sorrows). Here also Thackeray is said to have met the book illustrator and travel writer G A Sala. The pub was rebuilt by Meux's Brewery Co Ltd in 1929 and subsequently George Orwell and Graham Greene were regulars in the 1940s, accompanied from time to time by Arthur Koestler.

Information for this venue is provided by the West London Branch of CAMRA
Previous Names
Crown & Chairmen; Crown
Local Authority
Westminster
Last updated
09/12/2024
Last surveyed
13/01/2019
Leasehold owner
unknown
Freehold owner
Mitchells & Butlers
Pub ID
WLD/16224
Asset of Community Value
Monday
Noon - 11:30pm
Tuesday
Noon - 11:30pm
Wednesday
Noon - 11:30pm
Thursday
Noon - 11:30pm
Friday
Noon - Midnight
Saturday
Noon - Midnight
Sunday
Noon - 10:30pm
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Current beers

This Pub serves 3 changing beers and 1 regular beer.

Regular and recently seen

Sharp's - Doom Bar TasteMatch Prediction

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Sharp's Doom Bar Pump Clip-1
Sharp's - Doom Bar Session Bitter • 4%
Sharp's Doom Bar Pump Clip-1
Sharp's - Doom Bar

This beer is served regularly at Crown & Two Chairmen, London.

ABV 4%
Dispense Handpump
Style Session Bitter
Colour
Vegan No
Gluten Free No
Changing

Changing beers typically include: Siren - Broken Dream Breakfast Stout , St Austell - Proper Job , Timothy Taylor - Landlord

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Evening Meals Evening Meals
Restaurant Restaurant
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Features
Cask Ale Cask Ale
Member Discount Scheme Member Discount Scheme
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Cask Marque Beer and Cellar Hygiene rating
Cask Marque: Beer and Cellar Hygiene rating 5 out of 5
Transport
Close to bus routes
7, 19, 24, 29, 38, 96, 36
Nearby Station (850m)
London Charing Cross
Close to London Underground/Overground/DLR (350m)
Tottenham Court Road

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