Finding the perfect pub is so notoriously difficult that George Orwell famously had to invent one in his The Moon Under Water essay, first published in this paper in 1946. The best part of 80 years later, and two young Londoners have dreamt up something the great polemicist may have found euphonious: Pub Club.
Not, as the name might suggest, a monthly meet-up for life’s hellraisers, the invention of Tom Ireland-Life and Freddie Bermingham is an app promising solutions for anyone fancying a pint but with no particular place to go. It was born out of an unfulfilling afternoon for the pair, both 24. “Tom and I were sat on the sofa looking for a pub for about six hours of sport,” Bermingham remembers. “It was this grey, miserable day and we started googling for pubs with fireplaces, sofas, Sky Sports and a Sunday Roast.”
