Built in 1900 and Grade II listed. Following a period of closure, the pub was reopened in December 2017 by Layo and Zoë Paskin, founders of the Covent Garden restaurants Palomar and Barbary, on a 15-year lease. The ground floor still houses the main pub area; but at our last update reported no longer to be selling any cask ales.
In the basement is Michelin-starred Evelyn’s Table, a micro-restaurant with an 11-seat marble countertop, with two side tables bringing the seat count up to 15. Unusually for somewhere this small there is not a set meal, but around 10 dishes per day on a regularly changing modern European menu. Half the seats are available for walk-ins. There is also a barfood menu available from 5pm.
The first floor now has the Mulwray wine bar featuring Connemara marble, brass detailing and a wood-burning stove. There are deep upholstered seats and some vintage porn framed on the walls in a nod to Soho's past seedy reputation. The wine bar entrance is in the side alley. The site is on the edge of London's Chinatown, and film buffs will be aware that Evelyn Mulwray was the femme fatale (played by Faye Dunaway) in the famous 1974 film Chinatown.
Note the restricted opening hours. This venue has in the past been reported as selling a real cider by CAMRAs definition. Further updates welcome.
Historic Interest
Grade II listed, Historic England reference 1235290. In 1963, the day after recording She Loves You, the Beatles were photographed in the alleyway running along the side of this Blue Posts. They posed for photographer Dezo Hoffman against a backdrop of signs for striptease joints and the like, as this part of Soho was considerably less salubrious than at the present day. It is said that it reminded the band of Liverpool.
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