Much of this exploration was of course in aid of the Open Guide to Cambridge, which was in serious need of some updating. I discovered that lots of places had closed and turned into something else; the most exciting of these from my point of view appear to be Seven Days (previously Asia), Sesame (previously Kami's), and HK Fusion (previously Ugly Duckling).

If you're in or near Cambridge, or know someone who is, it would be lovely if you could sort of spread around the word about the Open Guide. As far as I can tell, there aren't really any foodbloggers in Cambridge, so it does appear to be filling a gap in the market, and of course it covers plenty of things other than food.

Also, juggzy and I are planning a Citi 1 bus route pub crawl for some time in the spring. There's a tentative Google map which may need some route correction. I'm going to see if I can persuade some tubewalkers to come along on this — handily, we will be stopping for lunch in a pub near Cambridge station, and the train from King's Cross only takes 50 minutes, so Londoners won't even need to take the entire day off work.

I didn't forget access! All but four of the specific pages I linked have access info (the remainder don't have it because for various reasons I didn't get a chance to take notes at the time, and I don't like to rely on memory for something this important).

Ah, yes, sorry; if I didn't visit this time, it's unlikely to have access info yet. I haven't done the "OK you lot, we need to include access info and this is how" thing on OGC like I did on RGL, since OGC doesn't really have a hardcore of frequent updaters like RGL does, more a loose set of people who make sporadic updates when they remember it exists. I would love to have more regular contributors, but I'm not sure where to look for them.

I did, yes, sorry! Next time. I had a couple of long wanders planned out, but not really in the Mill Road area. The Devonshire is on the site already, but its new incarnation only really has a bare-bones writeup. If you feel keen, you could add some accessibility info to it!

Yeah, I reckon you'll have to take the Tivoli and the Boathouse off the list because they're not really on the route going South to North following strict bus route pub crawls ie the bus has to go along the street or road that gives acess to the pub.

And I think you might need to add The Avery in. Do we have to go to the Prince Regent?

We don't have to go to the Prince Regent, no! I just put everything on to start off with (including All Bar One) because I was doing it late at night and was too tired to make decisions. I'll see if I can work out how to give you access to edit the map.

Oh, sadly I decided to shelve it in favour of the Chinese menu project — I wouldn't have had time to do both, and the Chinese menus won.

Edited to expand on that a bit: the museum project was more of a personal challenge, since diamond geezer and others are already doing a great job of documenting London's more obscure museums. The Chinese menu project is pretty unique though, as far as I can tell, so I thought it was a more useful thing to be doing.

The Empress is my local, so here is some slightly random information to add to your entry there. They have a large garden with picnic-style benches that includes a covered section near the pub and heat lamps. Their three pet micropigs reside in the garden. There is also a cat. They show sport there sometimes, and there is a pool table and darts board. It has no aspirations towards being a gastropub - they don't really do food other than tasty home-made pizzas. They usually have a good guest ale on. Disabled access is not great as there are steps at the (rather narrow) entrance. It is always packed on Friday and Saturday nights. It's hidden away off Mill Road so most of the people you'll find there will be locals and not tourists (unlike, say, The Eagle).

If you like, I'll do a proper writeup on my next visit because I don't recall prices or the full on-tap selection at the moment.