What makes the perfect pub? Perhaps it is an impossible question to answer — still, last week, the Standard tried. With a hand from Josh Barrie and Mike Daw, I put together the paper's newest list of the 50 best pubs in London.
Despite being far from scientific — I tend to believe science in a pub should mostly be left to the pressure in the pumps — putting it together had taken years of trawling across town for pints here and there, picking up recommendations, hearing out the angry DMs of places missed, refining choices. I don't go to Catford lightly.
