The Coleherne
10 April 2012
This review was first published in November 2000
This is the most famous gay pub in the world. Armistead Maupin's Tales Of The City character Mouse visited it when he was in London - and had a certain amount of success there, it has to be said. It is now also one of the most spectacular gay pubs in the world. Last year Bass spent a small fortune transforming the interior. It's now all shiny brass and clinkety-clank metal catwalks from where you survey the scene. A huge model of a man in leathers and chains is suspended from the ceiling - I am reliably informed he is called Muscle Mary. This speaks much of the clientele: lots of burly men in leather chaps enjoying the agreeable air of sin. Not for the faint-hearted.
