Finally did the pub visit ... and a fine one I chose indeed. Coincidentally this place is quite near to my temp housing, so came up quickly on a yelp search - and being named after cheese who could resist.
The facts:
There has been a pub at this location since 1538 ... rebuilt shortly after the Great Fire of 1666. Some of the interior wood paneling is nineteenth century, some older, perhaps original. The vaulted cellars are thought to belong to a 13th century Carmelite Monastery which once occupied the site. There are several famous literary figures associated with the place. Charles Dickens had been known to use the establishment frequently, and due to the pub's gloomy charm it is easy to imagine that Dickens modelled some of his darker characters there. The Cheshire Cheese Pub is famously alluded to in Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities.
So gloomy - check, humid - check (I was sopping wet by the time I go there), lots of small cavernous rooms with minimal lighting - check, and an infamously low stairwell that in just one passing of a group of people, three smacked their head - check, check, check. Had a brew and fish & chips and finished up my quite literary book I was reading - did it right!
The facts: There has been a pub at this location since 1538 ... rebuilt shortly after the Great Fire of 1666. Some of the interior wood paneling is nineteenth century, some older, perhaps original. The vaulted cellars are thought to belong to a 13th century Carmelite Monastery which once occupied the site. There are several famous literary figures associated with the place. Charles Dickens had been known to use the establishment frequently, and due to the pub's gloomy charm it is easy to imagine that Dickens modelled some of his darker characters there. The Cheshire Cheese Pub is famously alluded to in Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities.
So gloomy - check, humid - check (I was sopping wet by the time I go there), lots of small cavernous rooms with minimal lighting - check, and an infamously low stairwell that in just one passing of a group of people, three smacked their head - check, check, check. Had a brew and fish & chips and finished up my quite literary book I was reading - did it right!
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