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| You're spot on. An awful lot of pubs are now either restaurants with a bar area or standardised national pub chains like Wetherspoons which are the same but on a bigger scale. I guess it's because times and tastes have changed in the UK. There are so many wine bars because that's what people want and with no real "restaurant" culture outside the big cities the pubs filled the gap and morphed into gastro pubs (tho' "gastro" is a joke). As for the "local" I think the car and commuting were the nails in the coffin. People don't limit their evenings out to one place anymore. There are some pubs in the centre of London which still cling to the more traditional tho' even they have moved with the times. Here are a few:
Argyll Arms in Argyll street near Oxford circus
Dog and Duck Frith Street Soho
Ye Old Mitre, Ely Court, Chancery Lane
Old Cheshire Cheese off Fleet Street
The Old Cheshire Cheese is my favourite - It's just off Diagon Alley (Or Wine Office Court as it's known in Muggles speak) if you can find it! I think Harry Potter and Hagrid are regulars:
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thanks nev,
will try that one out next time i am in london (now i don't have to suffer in those all-bar-one clones anymore! never liked them...aways felt like it was like being 16 again , too crowded...)
now where did i put my Helga Hufflepuff costume....