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Article: Let's drink to the winners and the best bars in town For pub and bar judges meeting high above the atrium in Northcliffe House it was decisions, decisions. Which pub would be Pub of the Year? Which bar Bar of the Year? Unanimous it was not, but at the end of day we had our winners. The Pub of the Year: The Settle Inn in Battersea Bridge Road.The Bar of the Year: Zander in Buckingham Gate.Congratulations to them both. ANGUS McGILL reports on how the judges reached their verdicts evening standard 2001 pub of the year
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- December 5, 2000
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THE WINNING PUB AT a time when the market gardens of Battersea
were disappearing under a tidal wave of Victorian terraces there was
a call for large, jovial pubs like The Rising Sun. It stood brand
new, confident and swanky on the corner of Battersea Bridge Road, a
handsome three-storey building, very modern with its shapely windows
and elegant cast iron pillars.
It had an impressive array of bars and was good and ready for the
20th century.
Well it survived. Just. By 1999, at the young age of 100, it
seemed to be on its last legs, at which moment enter Paul McKinley
and Katie Reed.
Paul is 30, Katie is 29 and they had worked together at Harvey
Floorbangers in Lavender Hill, then at the ...