The Speaker in Westminster

Published: Aug 13th, 2009 | Author: The Beeralist

The Speaker in Westminster

On Wednesday evening Jon and I had a bit of a crawl around pubs close to St James’s Park tube station. It’s not an area that either of us were familiar with but it yielded a superb pub that we shall definitely be returning too soon.

The Speaker is in Great Peter Street – away from the bustle of Victoria Street. You know when you’ve found a good pub when there are crowds of people standing outside on the pavement even when it’s raining – think of the Market Porter in Borough Market. Getting to the bar was a bit of a struggle because of the number of people inside.

We started off with a couple of pints of Colley’s Dog from the Tring Brewery . This was a delicious dark and malty beer. After some very reasonably priced sandwiches we then tried the Meantime LPA, a refreshing hoppy beer and very moreish.

Inside the Speaker in Westminster

Jon and I left the Speaker for a while to visit the Abbey up the road but decided to return to the Speaker to finish off the evening.

We discovered that The Speaker is holding a seaside beer festival for 2 weeks from 24th August and we’ll certainly be returning for that. Dennis the manager gave me a list of the beers that will be on (not necessarily all at once I believe). They are:

• Acorn – Summer Pale
• Arundel – Summer Daze
• Bank Top – Bowl Town Bitter
• Black Dog – Whitby Abbey Ale
• Black Isle – Red Kite
• Clarks – Sunflower Surprise
• Coach House – Summer Sizzler
• Dark Star – Sunburst
• Dorset – Harbour Master
• Elgoods – Mad Dog
• Exe Valley – Devon Summer
• Oakleaf – Donkey’s Delight
• Southport – Golden Sands
• Titanic – Lifeboat
• Woodfordes – Nelson’s Revenge
• Yates – Solway Sunset
• Yeovil – BST

The Speaker is definitely worth a visit if you’re in the area – it’s a great place for a conversation as there’s no music or TV unlike other pubs we visited during the evening.

I’ll post details about the other pubs we visited soon.

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