East Beers - Wednesdays - The Chesham Arms E9 6DU

I don't think the Britannia works for Easts, and I'm with eggpie on this. Every pub has advantages and disadvantages, and the Britannia has many of the former, but it's been almost completely dead every Wednesday evening. It seems like more of a week-end destination pub, a country inn transplanted into the inner city. The space feels vast and has no atmosphere when there are very few people in it. I also think that being located on the annoying one-way system with the street leading there being one-way against the flow of potential Easts goers has something to do with poor attendance. It's clearly a high-demand route--you see a lot of cyclists going contraflow on the footway.

To my mind, the two Easts pubs that worked best were the Royal* Inn and the Royal* Sovereign, not necessarily in any order. I miss the evenings at the Royal Inn, but I'd also like to go back to the Sovereign every once in a while.

People may be pleased to hear that there is a prospect of getting cycle parking in opposite the Jolly Butchers. I'll keep you updated. :)

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Part of the attraction is that nobody goes there because of the one-way system. It means they fucking love us. The reason there's nobody there and no atmosphere is because we're not there in sufficient numbers. We could completely take over the place, Greyhound-style if we were there en masse.

I don't see why the stupid one-way road should affect us cyclists at all. On the way there you can go through the park and on the way back you can use the road.

If the Butcher's gets cycle parking then we should seriously consider going there. For a start it's run by one of us, and secondly it's packed with great beers.