31 Marchmont Street
Bloomsbury
London, WC1N 1AP
Nearest Transport: Russell Square
020 7923 5961
Refurbished in 2006 and reopened in December 2006, The Marquis Of Cornwallis is a pub serving a good selection of real ales and lagers on tap as well as delicious gastropub food. They can cater for private parties of up to 50 people in their function room.
Like Janie_lou mentioned what you have here is a indeed a chain pub... BUT the scope and range of wines that is available on tap is a marked improvement on the dross being served just over the road.
Also there's a more than competent range of pub foods, from the pub-centric fish n chips, to nicer range of tapas style nibbles.
Ive been here with a range of people and it fits with various crowds, from the 'uni lot', to after workers over drinkers to even my father. So a fits for all place.
The leather sofa's give things a cosy and its not without atmosphere, even if this is artificially created. Sometimes artificial can work though and in this case it provides a 'nice' backdrop to the 'nice' bar area and 'nice' food. But thats as exciting as it gets!
So if you want to play it 'nice' and safe, and to avoid O'Neils etc over the road, you may as well drop in here - you won't be disappointed and youll be sure to have a 'nice' evening.
Still a chain-pub, but a marked improvement on the last one
Current
This pub's previous incarnation - the Goose & Granite - was truly HORRID! But with its proximity to the new and improved Brunswick Centre it was only a matter of time before it was closed down to be given a make-over.
Still owned by Mitchells & Butlers this is now an unbranded pub, filled with battered leather couches, scrubbed down tables and chairs, lots of cutesy knick-knacks, tatty lamp shades and serving up a gastro-style menu with plenty of old favourites such as ham, egg and chips.
There's plenty of tables and chairs on the ground floor as well as an upstairs room (which can be hired out for functions)and some tables and chairs outside. There is an extensive selection of spirits, wines, lagers, along with a few ales and flavoured beers, and the staff are efficient and usually quite good fun.
I've had a couple of ropey drinks (the Kriek and the Timothy Taylor Landlord) but I suspect they were the first ones out of the pump that day. Everything seems fairly well-kept otherwise.
The clientele is a bit more desirable these days, and is formed mainly of locals, workers, students...the usual crowd for this area really.
It does still grate on me a bit that it's a M&B pub, but when you weigh it up against the O'Neills opposite and the ghastly London Pub across on Woburn Place then you realise that M&B have done a pretty good job with this place. And as I say, its so much better than the Goose and Granite.
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