The John Snow

Pub in Soho

7 / 10 from 1 review

Address
39 Broadwick Street
Soho
London
W1F 9QJ

Map

Telephone
020 7437 1344

Region
Soho

Nearest Station
Oxford Circus
0.24 miles

Category
Pubs

Opening Times

Monday	Open 12:00 - Closes 23:00
Tuesday	Open 12:00 - Closes 23:00
Wednesday	Open 12:00 - Closes 23:00
Thursday	Open 12:00 - Closes 23:00
Friday	Open 12:00 - Closes 23:00
Saturday	Open 12:00 - Closes 23:00
Sunday	Open 13:00 - Closes 22:30

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The John Snow is a pub that serves a variety of traditional British dishes and bar snacks throughout the day. They host comedy nights every Saturday evening.

All In London Review

Cheap and cheerful Sam Smith’s pub in town

Finding somewhere you can buy two pints for under a fiver in London is akin to finding a hairpin in a wheat stack, but luckily pubs belonging to the Samuel Smith brewery still provide affordable drinking options.

Sam Smith’s lagers and ales sit alongside imported bottled beers at low prices; there is food on the menu too, but the burgers and chips are more of the peckish when pissed meal type rather than dinner you’d make a special trip for.

Set over two floors, this classic boozer has no flourishes; think old fashioned carpets, dark wooden furniture, partitions with etched glass and wood panelling and bars with shelves containing bottles hanging upside down.

Upstairs, walls are lined with pictures of the pub’s namesake, who was the first person to claim that cholera was a waterborne disease. There is a connection between the pub and this seemingly random fact, as the water pump that aided his research was once upon a time situated here.

Like most neighbouring Soho pubs, it gets filled up of an evening with the local media bods and getting a seat is laborious, even on a Monday. Twentysomething runners from nearby production houses and office workers cram on to the pavement in the summer months, pint in hand.

It may be a simple pub with a minimum of fuss, but if it’s a cheap drink and a natter you’re after, The John Snow is just the place.

Reviewed by Leila
Published on Oct 11, 2010

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As a Samuel Smith pub you can be sure that you’ll always find good value at The John Snow on Broadwick Street. Aside from that, the interesting wooden interior on the ground floor is suitably old and you’ll be hard pressed to find a more comfortable lounge bar in Soho than the one that sits on the John Snow’s first floor.

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Nursing that half pint all night can be a thing of the past.

The John Snow in Soho is part of the Northern Brewery Samuel Smith’s chain of pubs, which means cheap, cheap, cheap. Alpine Lager, Taddy Lager and stout for around £2.50 a pint and all in the heart of one of London’s most eclectic neighbourhoods.