Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese

It was rebuilt in 1667, the year after the Great Fire, at the end of Wine Office Court off Fleet Street, and its cellars may belong to a 13th-century monastery. It is a warren of small, dark rooms with fireplaces and sawdust on the ground floor.

It was the pub of Fleet Street's newspapermen and of writers such as Samuel Johnson, who lived nearby in Gough Square, and Charles Dickens, who mentions it in «A Tale of Two Cities». Today it belongs to the Samuel Smith brewery, with its own beer at good prices and no music or TV.