Food-wise, you know you're in Clerkenwell when it costs £8.10 for fish fingers and chips! But this is not necessarily a bad thing at The Slaughtered Lamb. The menu is not expansive - 3 fish and chip variations, sausage and mash (meat and veggie varieties) and a few sandwiches. But what it does serve, it does really well. The fish fingers are home made and are wonderfully irregular, served with piping hot chips.

Ok, the previous incarnation was a bit crimey - in my final two visits I was offered a bass guitar and a pair of Levis by a fat junkie, the next time a plainclothes policeman arrested a guy midway through his attempts to sell me a stolen mobile phone - and it was a bit scary when the landlords boar sized muscle dog fell asleep on my lap, but it had charm, a charm which it now sorely lacks.

The previous thai food was great, the regulars friendly and it was a good old fashioned boozer. The newly ponced up version is staffed by nathan barley sorts with asymetric hair and too many buttons on their cardigans, the booze is more expensive but no better and it seems to play mid 90s house music. Its ok, but I reckon its a crying shame that most of the regulars have been forced out but yet more unnecessary brewery rhinoplasty.