The Adam and Eve, Mill Hill

This is now a fine pub and restaurant. I agree that it's overpriced and has lost its appeal to the flat cap brigade, but all previous attempts to run this ancient establishment have met with failure and I feel that we should be grateful that it's still there at all. The wine is brilliant and the coffee is excellent too. I don't know about the beer - I'll leave that to the experts. The smartly dressed staff are always very obliging and there is a very nice relaxing feel to the whole place. They keep me informed of forthcoming events and offers by e-mail, which is more than any other pub has ever done for me. I wish the management every success with it.

17 Dec 2014 00:24

The Railway Engineer, Mill Hill

This Victorian pub, originally called the Railway Hotel, became the Royal Engineer (after the barracks opposite) in the 1970s, but because of the perceived threat of Irish terrorism was renamed the Railway Engineer. A few years ago it changed its name to the Angel & Crown, a name also used for an ancient pub by the Village Pond on The Ridgeway, closed in the 1930s and demolished in the 1960s. I'm not sure whether this pub ever traded as the Angel & Crown but if so, it certainly didn't last long and has been boarded up for two or three years now.

17 Dec 2014 00:07