I ended up at this pub on a walking tour of London and was enamored by the history. Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese has sat on the same place since 1538 and was a regular haunt of Dickens and Mark Twain. When you walk in you think it is only a small room with the fireplace until you start walking down the stairs and then continue down more and more stairs. If you are anywhere near here just stop in for a beer or 3.
Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese
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