Mobissimo

While Budweiser served in a random bar in the United States is one thing, to hoist a pint to your lips in a place where a sense of tradition, history, and decades/centuries of drunkeness have taken place in a cathedral of beer is pretty cool too.  Read more here via the Times.

Beer and architecture experts Geoff Brandwood and Jane Jephcote have identified London's most important historic pub interiors. They are a hugely varied collection ranging from lavishly decorated late Victorian hostelries to simple, street-corner locals.

All the pubs below have interiors that survive from before the great wave of refitting that began in the 1960s and which transformed the character of the vasy majority of pubs in Britain. Their book, London Heritage Pubs: An Inside Story, contains 156 entries out of a possible 5,500 pubs in the capital's 33 boroughs.