Spend some quality time in the pub with us. We’re the place to be for a relaxing lunch with your friends, family or colleagues.
Indulge in our oozy Grilled Cheese Toastie filled with a medley of mature Cheddar, Gouda and Emmental cheese on crisp sourdough or grab yourself our Wooodland mushroom pie served with thick-cut chips and garden peas.
The pub is named after John Shakespeare, William Shakespeare's father. He was what we would now call a property developer especially around Victoria, where he would live Monday to Friday. The gardens opposite were originally called Shakespeare Gardens but were renamed Grosvenor Gardens when John sold them to the Duke of Westminster's Grosvenor Estates. The Shakespeare pub started life as a hotel providing accommodation for weary travellers on the coaching routes south from Victoria. The Landlady in the early 1800's was allegedly murdered in the pub and an area of the basement was used for dog fighting where the original flagstones are still visible.
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