The Best Pub in London

The Pakenham Arms is a pub just across from the Postal Annex and near Kings Cross Station in London. We have visited a number of pubs in the U.K. and The Republic of Ireland, and this one remains our favorite.
     We spent a couple of evenings there on our first trip to London following which we took the train north to Newcastle and Carlyle where we rented a car for over two weeks of driving in Scotland.
     Upon returning to London, we stayed at the same hotel near Kings Cross and, of course, went over to the Pakenham. As we entered the barmaid shouted, "So, where'ya been?" It was like "Cheers" and I felt like Norm. We told her about our adventures up north and she seemed to be as excited as we were. The pub was filled with postal workers after their shifts (see Cliff of "Cheers") and everyone accepted us like old timers.
     A major travel site just ran a column on the best of the over 7,000 pubs in London. They listed lots of fancy ones -- even a couple we have been in -- but they missed the best in my book.