The Nags Head, Belgravia

Anyone who wants to preserve this beautiful little piece of history needs to misapporpriate the sandwich sign on Knightsbridge.

We visited The Nag's Head in a mews off Knightsbridge on a gray, wet day last month. There was a small fire upstairs and down. Yes, you need to be able to climb up the steps to the front door and down the steps to the lower room where food is usually laid out rather that hidden in the kitchen.

You expect a fine beer in a pub as graceful and friendly as this one and you have a choice of several. My wife had the shepherd's pie and I had bangers and mash. We sat at the only table available. She would rather have had a chair than the stool.

The Nag's head is small and quiet, its patrons focused enough on their conversation to justify the tab on their business expense reports. Great music from what is obviously a well-kept treasury of oldies, real oldies.

Honestly, I still have a warm memory of this pub weeks later.

12 May 2006 19:43