The Porterhouse is renowned for the wide selection of porters, stouts, and ales on offer, brewed at their own Dublin brewery. Customers can also choose from hundreds of brands of bottled beers from around the world. They serve a range of modern bar cuisine with an Irish flavour. There is live music every night from Wednesday to Saturday, and a traditional Irish music session on Sunday afternoons. A big screen TV shows all the major sporting events. Catering for private parties of up to 200 people.
I always make a point of heading to Porterhouse when in the Capital. You always know what you are going to get in this megaladon of a pub. More bars than you care to explore swallow up as many punters as can fit in and it still manages to retain a certain intimacy with it's low lighting and phenomenal array of 200+ bottles & home brewed draught ales, porters and lagers. The "Wrasslers" Stout was voted by the late lamented Beer Hunter Michael Jackson as the world's best and who would disagree. It makes Guiness look like a sickly, pasty faced child compared to its Falstaffian body and depth.
There is regularly live music and all this adds to the wonderfully Irish laid back atmosphere of probably the best pub in the Covent Garden area. The one in Temple Bar, Dublin though smaller is as good and enough off the beaten track to avoid most of the witless stag do's...
I agree with the other reviewers - great beer, great atmosphoere - and don't forget the live music in the basement! And if you get there early, it's fine for big groups of people as well!
Great Irish Bar with beautiful interrior design and one of the longest Beer menus I have ever seen! For a central London bar, everything is reasonably priced.
Remember that it's almost always packed and it's easy to get lost in there!!! Have your mates go to the bar and get you a new pint. If you go, after all that beer, there is no way you can find your friends again!!! Not until the next morning, anyway!
This is a pretty cool place. Excellent for those of you who like your beers. However, they couldn't have made the layout of the place more confusing! There's 3 levels (I think) but inbetween, there's mid levels and so many different little alcoves! I learnt that if you wanna meet someone there, you'd better meet them outside because there's no way you'd find them on a busy night!
Great Irish bar in Covent Garden that is also a Microbrewery. They have so many beers under one roof it will tempt you to stay and have another and another. There's even a menu of all the beers you can try from around the World. Great for those indesisive drinkers who are spoilt for choice as to what beer to try next. There's even live music and lunch and evening food menu's for those wanting to make a whole day of it. A really good place to go with a nice atmosphere just bring your friends.
Whenever I can remember how to find it and want a pub that isn't a boring chain I visit the Porter House.
It never fails to charm visitors and there is always something for the most pickiest of drinkers. My favourite beer is the raspberry one (due to holding fantastic memories of one spontaneous drunken afternoon).
I have also celebrated with champagne and a meal there.
I will be visiting again and taking whoever I am with for a sampling beer session.
The Porter house has its own beer menue from around the world as well as its own brews, that in itself should be enough. but also has a buzzing atmosphere and a crazy interior. fairly expensive and it does not seem to stock any regular largers, but it is in covent garden. one of the better pubs in Central London.
Going out in Covent Garden is something I never advise although this is clearly advice I am not taking to heart - I find myself there all too frequently.
The Porter House is an independent (or so it claims) Irish Brewery; The Porterhouse Covent Garden has two sister pubs in Dublin and one in County Wicklow in Ireland. I have no idea why they felt that Covent Garden was the location they were missing from their portfolio.
The place is a confusing and amazing labyrinth inside with staircases where there shouldn't be staircases and ladders where there should be staircases, a mixture of galleries overlooking other parts of the bar and low beams and ceilings. Last time I was there there was a pair of guys playing crowded house and Guns and Roses (they'll always be G'N'F'N'R to me) on the guitar to a largely oblivious crowd.
The food here is really good (from memory) and the beer (home brewed) such as Chiller (their lager) and Red (their smooth) and the charmingly named 'Brainblasta' is excellent (hence my problem remembering if the food is any good).
A real treat of a place in London's tourist capital.
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