The London strip pub scene

I visited the Griffin recently, for the first time in a long time. I'm surprised it didn't feature on elgar's list, given how long it's been around as a strip pub. I was surprised too that it looked a lot different to how it used to look, as it has been completely remodelled since I was last there. I've got to say the girls were good and the place was quite busy. My only complaint is that I thought the music was louder than ideal.

The Griffin didn't make my list as I always understood that it had the same girls as Browns, and I didn't hear great reports of it in those days anyway, so I didn't ever get around to making a visit. Maybe I should have tried it at least once, but it always sounded like a secondary Browns and I preferred to stick to the main one.

Of strip pubs in central London I think the only other one of great note that isn't on my list is the Horns, but that wasn't around in the days I used to visit these pubs. The Horns is a relative newcomer to the striptease world, only becoming a strip pub in November 2011 (although its history as a pub goes back to at least 1807).

(09-09-2016 11:44 )therawrak Wrote:  it looked a lot different to how it used to look, as it has been completely remodelled since I was last there.

The Griffin was closed for 2 or 3 months, between Dec 2014 and Feb 2015. I went by it at the time and saw that the whole place had been stripped out (no pun intended). When it reopened it had been completely refurbished and not even recognisable from the pub it was before.

The former White Horse strip pub in Shoreditch High Street is going to become a restaurant. Hackney Council have approved the application.

(22-06-2017 15:23 )shaun blue Wrote:  The former White Horse strip pub in Shoreditch High Street is going to become a restaurant. Hackney Council have approved the application.

I think they will all go that way, The Flying Scotsman at Kings Cross is now called , The Scottish Stores and is a upmarket pub with decent food , prices are a bit steep . but then I am a Weatherspoons/Toby type of person

(23-06-2017 16:52 )Kevin555 Wrote:  

(22-06-2017 15:23 )shaun blue Wrote:  The former White Horse strip pub in Shoreditch High Street is going to become a restaurant. Hackney Council have approved the application.

I think they will all go that way, The Flying Scotsman at Kings Cross is now called , The Scottish Stores and is a upmarket pub with decent food , prices are a bit steep . but then I am a Weatherspoons/Toby type of person

hope they have sorted the bogs out...use to be 5 inch deep piss in there

(23-06-2017 19:02 )cwpussylover Wrote:  

(23-06-2017 16:52 )Kevin555 Wrote:  

(22-06-2017 15:23 )shaun blue Wrote:  The former White Horse strip pub in Shoreditch High Street is going to become a restaurant. Hackney Council have approved the application.

I think they will all go that way, The Flying Scotsman at Kings Cross is now called , The Scottish Stores and is a upmarket pub with decent food , prices are a bit steep . but then I am a Weatherspoons/Toby type of person

hope they have sorted the bogs out...use to be 5 inch deep piss in there

Bet you were lucky to find a working bog in there if they were that bad!!

I did have few pubs in in London that I frequented that had bog problems (that weren't strip pubs0 and quite often I found a bog had no door (so you couldn't take a dump in private) then find one with a door but wouldn't flush when u finished!! and like you say CWP I often found one full of piss that that I so bloody desperate for a piss that I had to add my piss to it!!
you sure you didn't flush any magazines down the bogs there mate by accident?

(23-06-2017 16:52 )Kevin555 Wrote:  The Flying Scotsman at Kings Cross is now called , The Scottish Stores and is a upmarket pub with decent food

The Scottish Stores was the pub's original name, from when it was first established in 1901. It's interesting that with its refit it can now be described as an upmarket pub, as when it was a stripper pub it was one of the most downmarket pubs I've ever been in.

(22-06-2017 15:23 )shaun blue Wrote:  The former White Horse strip pub in Shoreditch High Street is going to become a restaurant. Hackney Council have approved the application.

Rising rents strike again. The rent had simply become unaffordable for a pub.

Unlike some strip pubs I could mention the White Horse was very well run, even if they didn't always have the best of girls on there. I remember the 'Shakespeare Drank Here" sign from the first time I visited and it was never a seedy place, despite the type of entertainment on offer.