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The Intrepid Fox

97-99 Wardour Street,
London, W1F 0UD, UK
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020 7494 0827

Opening Hours:
Mon - Thu: 12:00 - 23:30
Fri & Sat: 12:00 - 00:00
Sun: 15:00 - 23:30

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Review

A scary looking place from outside and even scarier inside, with scary patrons and scary toilets. If you like longhaired men, big cleavages and even bigger riffs, then the Intrepid Fox is the place for you.

An haven of hard-rock between the pink-pounded patrons of Old Compton Street and the sleazy backstreets of Soho, this pub within walking distance of Walkers Court and surrounded by sex shops and strip joints is ideal for the metal fraternity – just look for the pub with the crouching, demonic gargoyle above the door. Sitting amongst a variety of car-parts and crucified metallic-skeletons is a feature unique to The Intrepid Fox, as is the omnipresent cloud of cigarette smoke that hangs lifelessly, like the fake spiders and bats that make this a high-camp, gothic experience.

Apart from the smoke, it’s the toilets that make this pub such a dump. Locking the toilets and asking the customers to urinate in the street would certainly be preferable over using the toilets here, and certainly more hygienic. Taking women into The Intrepid Fox is always an embarrassment due to the lack of doors in the Ladies toilets, and beware of the flood in the Gents.

The selections of beers are what you would expect for an establishment of this nature – there are no cocktails, and the prices are fairly reasonable for this part of London. The large, clear windows make this pub a magnet for passing tourists who gawp at the Neanderthal men, women and original-features inside. You can also while away the hours over a few pints looking at all the posters and flyers that are pasted to the walls, and seem to have been amassed over the last 20 years (although the pub was recently ‘renovated’). And playing ‘spot the failed rock star’ is another good game, but you’re probably just imagining it that the geezer with the eyeliner and cowboy boots was in that band who had a lone Top-20 single in 1990!

There is a excess of totty here, but you need to find it attractive for totty to have multi-coloured hair, shaven heads, piercing, tattoos, and a six-inch nail protruding from their bottom lip, in addition to their chain-smoking habit and low-cut black, vampire outfit that doesn’t leave much to the imagination.

When all is said and done, this is a ‘rock and goth’ pub, and a good ‘rock and goth’ pub that attracts people from all over the country, who choose this pub above all others when visiting the capital. Definitely worth a visit if ‘rock and goth’ is your thing – see you there.

Review by mr_psm

Nearby:

Pubs:

The Slug and Lettuce	80 - 82 Wardour Street	63 m
Admiral Duncan	54 Old Compton Street	107 m
Red Lion	20 Great Windmill Street	127 m
Blue Posts	22 Berwick Street	148 m
The Ship	116 Wardour Street	150 m
Crown & Two Chairmen	31 Dean Street	155 m
Golden Lion	51 Dean Street	159 m
O'Neill's	33 - 37 Wardour Street	166 m
The Dog & Duck	18 Bateman Street	181 m

Public Transport:

Piccadilly Circus	Bakerloo, Piccadilly Line	289 m
Leicester Square	Northern, Piccadilly Line	401 m
Tottenham Court Road	Central, Northern Line	452 m
Oxford Circus	Bakerloo, Central, Victoria Line	594 m
Covent Garden	Piccadilly Line	653 m

User Comments:

darklord

Tuesday, 30th December 2003

The Intrepid Fox is the rockenest crypt in all of this world you may call "earth" my dark friends. The great lord Beelzebub himself serves schnappes from behind the bar and his dark minions clear the ashtrays. As for the music, well, if you like your your Holocaust hydro grind with primeval axe decaptitation, then you're in business. This sh*t is rock and roll!!!!!!!!! My evil vampyres!!!!The toilets are rubbish though.