Bride Street was once lined with pubs - eight by my count, and another 3 on Werburgh Street which continues directly from it. Of those, one one of the Werburgh Street pubs - the famed Lord Edward - still exists.
But as part of the recent redevelopment of the area, Bride Street now has two hotels. One, a StayCity, only has a residents bar - licenced as such and out of scope for me. The other, the new CitizenM, has a conventional bar open to the public.
Or at least it does by the time you're reading this. On the day I visited, they had not yet got their full Publicans Licence (Ordinary) Hotel in place and were only able to serve wine and soft drinks. But a wine is a wine, I was in the bar and I'm counting it against the full licence they were expecting to have by the end of July. I think the hotel opened a bit earlier than was originally advertised so this may explain the period of no full licence.
The bar is a hotel lobby bar, but a fairly nicely fitted out one. With no beers actually yet on offer, I can't comment on what the beer selection is like; and I know next to nothing about wine either, but I was able to drink what I bought!
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