Throgmorton's, Bankback to pub details please note - reviews on this site are purely the opinion of site visitors, so don't take them too seriously.
Chuffed to see this on The Apprentice getting refitted - agree with the previous comment, the colonial feel must be retained
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This was my all-time favourite pub until it closed 3 years ago. I just saw it on the Apprentice getting a refit!!! Really hope they don't destroy the art deco feel and gloomy underground vibe. Just been texting my drinking mates in excitement..................
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A very, very sad loss, no longer trading.
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CLOSED today 13:30, and looks like it has gone for good. Pathetic post-it size note on one of the doors stated 'Throgmortons is no longer open'; did they have no customers who may have deserved something more enlightening than that?
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Great place, a real gem in the City. Only problem is the completely inappropriate cheesy Euro-house music played by the bar staff.
I was told by the barmaid last night that the place has now been acquired by some chain or other. What a pity. We can only hope it's not Tiger Tiger or something in the future.
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Good beer. Good wine selection. Very good fat potato wedges! Service can be patchy. But overall, this still rates as a consistently pleasant - and surprising reasonably priced - place to drink in the City (in my experience, they're very hard to come by). Just not necessarily in the summer, when sitting in a basement - albeit an eccentrically decored one - doesn't quite have the same appeal...
anonymous - 18 Oct 2007 15:54 |
Everything about this place is top notch except the service which is appalling - slow , surley and done with a tut.......
anonymous - 3 May 2007 08:32 |
A rather good find. We sat in the lounge, which was nice, spacious and very relaxed. Plenty of interesting beers, both ales and lagers. However, a couple of the ales were off (especially disappointed as I quite fancied the Black Sheep) so I stuck to Deuchars IPA, which was refreshingly served in glass tankards and spot on. The guy behind the bar knew what exactly what he was doing too, and the food looked great, although I only sampled a potato wedge.
All in all, one of the best watering holes I�ve been to in quite a while.
The paradox is that while this place deserves to be very successful as it represents a decent fusion of trendy and traditional, I fear it could loose its charm if lots of Magners-drinking plebs stumbled upon it.
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One of the City�s best kept secrets, or at least it was until now. Behind the unpromising and easily missed entrance lies a Tardis of multi floor bars and the restaurant itself. The large spiral staircase with its gold mosaic walls first take you to the Mosaic Room, a bar that has more resemblance to a Gentlemans Club with its Chesterton sofas, cosy alcoves, marble pillars and light paneled ceiling. The beer selection will satisfy all tastes from the Carling drinkers to the continental beer experts. The range includes Spitfire, Black Sheep, Deuchers, Addlestones Cider, Hoegarden, Erdinger, Fruili, Kuppers and a small but varied range of bottled beers. A smiley message on a blackboard breaks up the formality and stuffiness that could exist in a bar historically frequented by traditional city cigar chompers. Beyond this is a small reception area with an old fashioned kiosk and this in turn leads to a further bar and the Long Room, the scene of many a business deal over the 106 years since the place first opened as the flagship of the J Lyons Empire. The bar is as it says on the tin, long and narrow with mirrors along one side making it look far bigger than it really is. Lighting is in the form of bunches of grapes that dangle from the ceiling and the seating is arranged in small intimate alcoves. Just when you think you have seen it all, signs lead you back through the Mosaic room, down the spiral staircase to the Oak Room, now a rather handsome sports bar with its rich red carpet, paneled walls and portraits. The multiple plasma screens and twin pool tables do not interfere with the restrained atmosphere. The whole building is just begging to be explored and I would guess that there are other treasures behind some of the doors. Always opulent but never vulgar and judging by the minimal number of reviews and ratings, this would appear to be a place just waiting to be discovered. Give it a try.
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Tucked away through a fairly innocuous doorway in the City, down a gold-tiled spiral staircase, Throgmorton's bar and restaurant spreads through at least 3 large underground rooms. The decor is on the Bohemian side (i.e. a bit patchy but quite sumptuous). The bar-staff are genreally a little on the clueless side, but nice enough. Every now and again the chef bakes fantastic cheese-sticks as bar snacks. There are TVs in the downstairs room. If you manage to get here when it's reasonably empty, this is a wonderful place, with the ambience of a gentlemen's club. If you're unlucky and it's packed with braying City bankers, then it sadly degrades into just another City bar. However it is reasonably well hidden, so get it while it lasts.
Austin - 28 Mar 2006 12:20 |
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