FTV : Rock & Pies and 5X5
A cosy lunch at The Barley Mow, toxic dance organ from The Rock & Roll Public Library, and the murderous apex of 5X5 strategy games...
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I took a couple of peeps from the studio for a cosy lunch at the Barley Mow in Marylebone over the weekend. Their pie is not to be trifled with. The ale is good too. Moreover, they have two very private little garden sheds inside the bar. I am told these are commonly called ‘booths’ but are to all intents and purposes, in direct kinship with that most traditional of man-caves in their capacity for both plotting and quaffing. Buy a bigger set of pants and dig in.
So blown away were we that we decided right there and then that ‘dance organ’ is a veritable thing.
