Article: Evening Standard 2000 PUB & BAR of the YEAR - CHEERS to the capital's best bar and pub WINNERS OF OUR BEST PUB AND BAR COMPETITION: READ ON TO FIND OUT HOW THEY MEASURED UP

A SMALL crowded pub and the classiest of bars have triumphed in the Evening Standard's annual celebration of London's finest watering holes, writes Angus McGill.

Sir Tim Rice reminded us that we had seen five very different pubs, sampled their beer, their food, their ambience and their loos.

The one he liked best had been the Cow in Notting Hill.

Yes it could be a scrum, but he liked that in a pub. He also liked the beer and the seafood and the little dining room.

Alice Beer preferred the Builder's Arms, lovingly remembering its great G&Ts and the stunning Italians at the next table.

Al Murray was emphatically a Cow man: "I fell in love with this place. I'd go back now."

Andrew Jefford ...

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