Hi all,

I'd be interested to hear PG-ers thoughts on the relatively new phenomenon of Pop-Up pubs. The reason I'm asking is that I'm currently working for a company which is delivering the largest development site in Central London - King's Cross. (more info here). It is a long-term project, which won't be fully complete for some time, but we are exploring the possibility of incorporating a pop-up pub on the site.

My initial thought is that from my own research pop-up pubs tend to take place in existing structures - e.g. someone buys an empty or disused pub, and can't afford to fit it out fully so opens temporarily for example over the summer, raising some capital to fix it up and open properly. Here we'd be looking for a brand new temporary structure.

What have people's experiences been of pop-up pubs, good or bad? Obviously with any such establishment I would be pushing the ale side of things very strongly but has anyone on here been to one which they thought worked well, and if so, why?

Cheers