De Hems

London's only Dutch pub, on Macclesfield Street at the edge of Chinatown. The site started life as the Horse and Dolphin coaching inn, then became an oyster house in 1890 run by a retired Dutch sea captain — the poet Swinburne used to travel ten miles daily to eat oysters at the long marble bar. During WWII it was the unofficial headquarters of the Dutch Resistance in London, and the spy Kim Philby was friendly with the chef. By the 1960s the music industry had moved in: Andrew Loog Oldham, who did PR for Epstein before managing the Rolling Stones, was a regular. Trident Studios, where the Beatles recorded Hey Jude and several White Album tracks in 1968, was two streets away on St Anne's Court.