15th August 2008
A Local's Local
It's a weird one, the Latchmere. Upstairs is a small theatre which occasionally hosts some quite big names (Al Murray's Pub Landlord started here, and returns from time to time), and the thursday night pub quiz is generally pretty good if the quizmaster can stay off the booze long enough to get through to the last round. However, and there's no easy way of saying this, it does attract, along with and often bizarrely alongside the middle-class theatregoers, a slightly rough element which can make drinking here a bit of a gamble. It's not dangerous by the standards of other high-street places, but it can get, for want of a better word, a bit lairy. But the food is OK and the service is friendly and it's not a bad place to go to watch the footie. So yes, a weird place. But it's mine.