Perhaps the closest is the Blue Posts on Berwick Street - another rough-around-the-edges haunt of Soho locals. Like this? There's nowhere quite like the Coach and Horses. At the time of writing, the only visible change is that the toilets are a bit cleaner. Management of the Coach & Horses was recently assumed by owners Fuller's, and fears remain that this Soho original might turn all bland and shite as a result. or else come and look at the cartoons that fill the pub's walls. If you're not familiar with the names Norman Balon and Jeffrey Bernard, simply Google. Whole essays could be written about the pub's history. This was one of the first pubs to have an all-vegan/vegetarian menu and, until recently, hosted a 'secret' tea room up the stairs behind the bar.
The ale range, for starters, is bang on trend, with a fine selection of craft and draught not normally associated with a carpeted pub. Yet the Coach & Horses has many surprises up its sleeve. You might be forgiven for thinking this was any old locals' pub. A place where a 'knees-up round the old joanna' is still very much part of the deal. We're back in the grubby 60s, with cloudy windows, ripped lampshades and signs for SKOL LAGER and IND COOPE above the bar.
To step inside is to leave 21st century London behind. If that's your attitude, then stay out of the Coach & Horses, Soho's most famous pub. Coach & HorsesÄoes the sight of a worn, carpeted pub make you belch in horror? We've not included the many fine bars, clubs and places of entertainment for which the area is historically (and, just about, presently) known. What we've included: The list sticks to places that most people would consider as 'pubs'.