Spotted Dog pub, Upton Lane, Forest Gate, London E7, every Thursday at about 9.00pm. Great pub, child tolerant (garden in the summer), good beer, grumpy barmaids but the two (yes, count them, TWO) blokes they had running two bars on the day before Christmas Eve, were OK. No freebies, no grub and the biggest bags of crisps I've ever seen....

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