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Central London: Bloomsbury, Euston and St Pancras
Adnams Cellar and Kitchen Bloomsbury, London WC1
Shop (Adnams)
30 Store Street WC1E 7QE
T 020 7580 2443 w http://cellarandkitchen.adnams.co.uk/page/bloomsbury-adnams-cellar-and-kitchen-store f AdnamsBloomsbury tw AdnamsBloomsbry
Open 1000 (1200 Sun)-2000 (1800 Sun).
Cask beer None, Other beer 15 bottles (mainly Adnams), mini casks, Also Fine wines, Adnams and other specialist spirits.
Food Confectionery, condiments.
Monthly tastings, corporate events.
Suffolk brewer Adnams opened this and a smaller sister shop in Spitalfields (73 Brushfield Street E1 6AA) in 2011 as part of an impressive programme of expansion and diversification. The brewery is also long established as a wine importer and these and a number of similar stores across the country are primarily a shop window for the wines, alongside kitchenware and miscellaneous foodie treats. But the bottled beers are also comprehensively featured, including special stuff like Sole Bay champagne beer, bottle conditioned barley wine Tally-Ho and new hoppy pale ale Innovation. Gift packs, mini casks and a small handful of standard German beers are available too. It’s a roomy, expansive space with helpful staff, and an atmospheric cellar used for public and private tastings. With its vaulted brick wine cage and Regency chairs, it could almost be the set of a Hammer horror film.
Visitor note. The shop is in attractive Store Street, just along from the Building Centre with its architectural exhibitions.
Underground Goodge Street Cycling LCN+ 0 6 6A Walking Jubilee Walkway
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