London Pub Tour 34 - King's Cross: The Fellow and Bar + Block Steakhouse

I was back in King's cross and decided to pay a visit to a pub I'd never been before and in the process also visiting a bar directly across the road. So my first intended port of call was The Fellow (N1 9AA). It was later in the evening and the place was quite busy. The pub is just down the side of Kings Cross station near platform 1 and around the new developments. The pub looks quite grand on the street corner and well maintained. The pub is a gastro pub and was filled with young professional people, and majority female. It was busy but I did still manage to grab a small table by the window. The music was playing quite loud, but I'm guessing this was due to the time of the night (about 9pm). The floor was wood and the walls also had very worn wood on them. The outside wall had sofa seating all the way along it, with tables and chairs opposite. The pub was large and the bar itself was quite sizeable. On tap there were three hand pumps but only two were on offering up Doombar or Wild Goose. On tap there was Amstel, Longhorn, Freedom Four, IPA Unfiltered, Camden Pale and Pale Unfiltered, Guinness, Birra and Symonds Cider.

I opted for a pint of the Freedom Four and retreated back to my table for both a chat and to have a better look at the pub. The pub has been done up well and certainly looks pleasing to the eye, though the music was now beginning to annoy as to chat involved shouting. The beer Freedom Four from Freedom Brewery was ok, nothing much stood out from it. It was at this stage I wanted to move on to another pub, but the venue across the road had caught my eye. It wasn't appearing in my searches as a pub but they had a bar and it didn't look so busy/noisy. So I finished up my pint and went across to what was the Bar + Block Steakhouse.

As expected there was no loud music playing, there was also no queue at the bar and plenty of seating. This bar-restaurant was very large offering up american diner style seating to all customers. The resturant was in the rear and the front was bar only. The bar was large and spacious and we weren't the only customers in there. There were no ales on offer but there were taps offering Guinness, Becks, San Miguel and Meantime Lager and Pale Ale. I skipped choosing a tap beer and instead selected a bottle I hadn't seen before which was Pacifico Clara by Modelo. This was a very sweet beer, with the style of Mexican Pilsner.

I only had the one drink here as time was moving on and I needed to get home, and this was just a short stop. Now I've included this place in my pub tours blog although rightly I know it's not a pub, but thought I would include for completeness sake, otherwise it would have just been a short blog on one noisy pub. I've also decided to include some pictures I took of the place below. I haven't eaten there so unable to confirm if the food is any good, nor the price.