The George
75-77 Borough High Street
Southwark
Greater London
United Kingdom SE1 1NH
Tel. +44 2074072056
The dishes
Loaded Nachos (Home fried nachos topped with nacho cheese sauce and 1833 Barber’s Vintage Cheddar, guacamole, sour cream, pickled red onions and sliced red chillies)
Fish & Chips (Hand-battered Atlantic cod with crushed peas, chunky tartare sauce, triple-cooked chips and charred lemon)
Venison bangers and squeak
You could subtitle this restaurant review by paraphrasing Dickens and call it “A Tale of Two Visits”. That is because Dickens, or his memory, has ties to the pub I recently visited during a London work pit stop.
The George Southwark, or perhaps better The George on Borough High Street in Southwark, is an historic London pub in the true sense of that word. To know it by its long name is essential, because otherwise you run the risk of confusing this specific place with another of London’s George dining establishments, the George Pub on Great Portland Street in Fitzrovia. And while the latter is also an historic and beautiful eighteenth-century pub, the two Georges in question are in fact very different.
