You really can't go  wrong with a pub that is actually mentioned in Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities! The charm will not be lost on you and by merely closing your eyes,  you’ll be transported to the days of Dickens!

Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese - rebuilt in 1667 after the Great Fire that struck the City, is dripping with atmosphere and makes you feel a part of old London. 

The food is about average for London Pub food and the service is average but friendly.  This Fleet Street boozer is historic and a wonderful place for refreshment.  You feel you've just walked into a Dickens novel with the sawdust floors and the pokey small rooms.

This rambling tavern of creaking floors, cosy rooms and snug corners, possesses a timeless ambience that keeps the contemporary world firmly at bay. Portraits of those who have worked and supped here over the centuries gaze fondly down from its dark wooden walls. Dr Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith, Mark Twain, Alfred Tennyson and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – to name but a few – have all ducked beneath its low beamed ceilings to absorb its 17th-century atmosphere. Dickens, too, was a regular, and the table to the right of the ground floor restaurant’s fireplace is said to have been his favoured place.

This is believed to have been the pub that Dickens had in mind when, following Charles Darnay’s acquittal on charges of high treason in A Tale of Two Cities, Sydney Carton invites him to dine: ‘Drawing his arm through his own’ Sydney leads him to Fleet Street ‘up a covered way, into a tavern… where Charles Darnay was soon recruiting his strength with a good plain dinner and good wine’.

Ye Olde Chesire Cheese   ~ Wine Office Court, 145 Fleet Street, City of London, London EC4A 2BU