Lyceum Tavern — Restaurant in London

🚇 Covent Garden 🍺 £5.60 Double four Lager ❤️ A traditional Sam Smith’s West End pub. . The Lyceum Tavern is located on The Strand in the heart of London’s theatre district. The nearest Tube is Covent Garden which is only a five minute walk away. . This pub is built on the site of the original Lyceum Theatre that was destroyed by fire in 1830. The first pub on this site was The White Horse, the present pub dates from 1906. . As with all Sam Smith’s pubs the decor here is dark and traditional. Around the walls are dark wood panels with brass framed black and white photos hanging from them. A nice touch here are the secluded booths if you fancy a more intimate pub experience. Upstairs is an additional bar which is mainly used for dining and busier trading periods. . The drinks choices are all Sam Smiths in house produced Beers, wines and spirits. We both ordered the Double Four Lager which for me is a good session pint. The price point was good compared to the surrounding pubs. There is a traditional pub grub menu, Fish & Chips costs £11.95 which is very reasonable. . The atmosphere was relaxed and calm on this Saturday afternoon with a predominantly middle aged crowd in attendance. The pub is popular with day trippers and theatre goers and can get busy very quickly, luckily it wasn’t overly busy and we got to enjoy the pub and have a good mooch about. . Sam Smith’s pubs divide opinion but personally I’m a fan. The decor in here is quintessentially English pub and showcases what a traditional pub should be. I’m also a fan of the beer which is always on point. This was an excellent pub experience and I would definitely recommend a visit here. . ℹ️ Info correct on...

"Never in my life I was ashamed of having fun in a civilized way" That could be the incipit of our experience in the infamous kill joy of what Lyceum Tavern appeared to us thanks to the portrayal of that night.

For some unknown, non publicly documented anywhere (posters/warnings) it is forbidden to play a music video at an extremely acceptable volume levels, inside of the in-built cabins.

Let alone the fact the pub itself is not playing any kind of music it is forbbiden to use any kind of technology (what does that even mean??? and why do you use it to accept card payments then?)

According to them, this is to reflect how pubs in the past were, completely ignoring actual historical fact-checking, in a parallel universe where jukeboxes, live bands and record players didn't exist. I guess the staff lived in a twisted timeline where politely vibing and chilling were considered evil and hunted down by the anti-fun inquisition.

tl;dr: don't go if you want to have fun and like music, if you are all about not having fun and falling asleep to white noise boring chatter,...

I have been to this pub previously and always enjoyed our time there but last night we had the worst experience I have had in my whole life. The manager came across to us after 5 minutes we were sitting and removed our drinks from our table telling us to leave the premises with no clear explanation! When I went to find out what was going on he stared yelling and pushing me out as in his opinion one of our group was disrespectful to one of his staff. It was all out of a blue as it wasn't true as we didn't speak to anyone and he was just accusing of something we didn't do!! I tryed to calm him down to understand what was going on but he wasn't willing neither to stop yelling or listen instead was just threatening to call the police!!! I don't really know what was wrong with him and he embarrassed all of us kicking us out without even a refund of the full drinks he toke from us! These kind of people shouldn't be able to work with public as he was harrassing and very aggressive! I just hope someone will deal with this after...