the Crooked Billet, Stoke Row

It's a very short article and a review of a pub, but I read it three times.

https://www.standard.co.uk/going-out/bars/crooked-billet-stoke-row-henley-review-b1221569.html

Paul Clerehugh
stake a claim
best [Collins] (verb) to gain the advantage over or defeat
[quote]besting the Eagle in Farringdon by two years - by??
a Shires legend - capital letter?
swing by [quote]Marco Pierre White swings by
stop-off
egalitarian
brawny - brawny scallops
Mersault - spelling
mark up
pull [quote]his pull with musicians
Nigel Kennedy
PP Arnold
chattering classes

I want to go to the Billet and the Eagle.