Remember a drink is for life and not just for Christmas
On the corner of Beak St and Marshall St. The Old Coffee House, is one of those rare old theme pubs where the theme is drinking. I have been drinking in TOCH for 20 years and it has barely changed at all in that time. Barry & Gerry the husband and wife landlord team are still behind the pumps, the still nicotine stained war posters are still shuffled around once a year and the same old drinkers are still ordering the same old drinks. Many an afternoon has blurred into a long old evening in TOCH. As an antidote to the modern drinking/members clubs called such cutting edge names as 'Moist', 'Player' and 'Thrush'; the warm red interior, low lighting and proximity to Carnaby Street, Oxford Street & Piccadilly Circus makes TOCH a perfectly decorated and situated establishment. Protected from invasion by too many media types (limited supply of latest Peruvian bottled beer 'Chumpitaz' being the key reason for their absence) it is also generally immune from part-time Christmas drinkers. Those that do make it through are quietly ushered upstairs, where they can don stupid paper hats and pull various assorted crackers to their hearts content without annoying the hardy annuals downstairs.
All in all The Old Coffee House is a veritable home from home. Cheers
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