The Crown & Sceptre - 68 Great Titchfield Street

Fitzrovia is an odd stretch of town, everyone automatically heads for the party lands of Soho or Covent Garden and leaves the area north of Oxford Street well alone which is a shame because there is some good finds to be had up there. One of which is the Crown and Sceptre. I first stumbled across this bar many moons ago whist wandering north of Oxford Street thinking “I wonder what’s up here”. It’s large and has an Edwardian theme, standard food menu, lots of sofas and occasional large screens for the football. When I first found it the Crown and Sceptre was pleasantly half full, there’s nothing worse than standing room only for a quiet drink, but we returned to watch England v Turkey in the crunch world cup qualifier for the 2002 tournament, and the world and their dog had turned up. Choose your timing wisely.