The Fox, Hanwell - pub details
Address: Green Lane, Hanwell, London, W7 2PJ [map] [gmap]
Tel: 0871 951 1000 (ref 3635)
Hanwell (0.6 miles), Drayton Green (1.2 miles), West Ealing (1.3 miles)
Pub facilities/features:
- TV
- Dartboard, Fruit machines
- Food served, Real ale
- Outside seating, Credit cards accepted
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> Current user rating: 7.1/10 (rated by 90 users)
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Inn on the Green, Hanwell (0.3 miles), Royal Victoria, Hanwell (0.3 miles), Viaduct, Hanwell (0.3 miles), McCann's, Hanwell (0.3 miles), Ryans, Hanwell (0.3 miles) - see more nearby pubs
user reviews of the Fox, Hanwell
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| I want to leap to the defence of my local pub after the review posted by blue_scrumpy. But some of his observations are bang on the money. There are some excellent, professional members of staff at The Fox and I cannot sing their praises highly enough! But their acquisition, training and ability is purely down to fluke (the management will hire anyone regardless of experience or ability and keep anyone on staff even if they are patently incompetent - this is a major disservice to the great staff members and to the customers too). The management, can at best be described as clueless amateurs, this is despite the fact they have been running the place for 10 years +. That said the landlady (Maggie) must be commended for her energy, determination and fantastic cooking on Sundays. On the question of pricing, actually I have found that The Fox is rather cheap in comparison to the other pubs in the area. And if you are going to spend money on bar snacks these days, you must expect to spend small fortune. The Fox is a lovely little pub, one which I will continue to happily frequent, the food and beer is excellent. BUT there is room for improvement, there is so much promise, so please management - pull your finger out, realise the gem you have on your hands and do a better job! psimpson - 25 Aug 2011 15:32 |
| nicely located and priced located near the canal and Hanwell centre the Fox is a simple looking place popular with locals and walkers good selection of beers and wines and the sunday lunch is a nice big hot portion of chicken,lamb or beef also very popular with dog walkers who are catered for with doggie snacks behind the bar. bigmeuprudeboy - 22 Aug 2011 13:33 |
| I'd been meaning to try this pub for a while and finally got here on Friday evening. In all honesty, I was not overly impressed. The building and the location are nice, situated not far from the canal at the end of a suburban street. What disappointed me was the service. I hate it when customers are not served in the order they arrive at the bar. It shows a complete ignorance from the barstaff and customers alike. Nevertheless, I finally got served my half pint of Itchen Valley Pure Gold plus a bag of scratchings for a princely sum of £2.80. A mate arrived shortly after and ordered a pint of the same brew (£3.30). By my calculations, that makes the scratchings £1.15. I remember selling scratchings in a pub for 40p about 15 years ago. Has inflation really gone up by 300% in that time? Buying my mate a drink, I handed over £10.30, expecting £7 change. The barman returned to ask me what note I'd given him. I said it was a £10 and he came back with just £6.70 change. So I was overcharged 30p. Given I'd waited several minutes to get his service in the first place, I soon gave up and put the lost 30p down to experience. In summary, a nice pub with poor customer service. 4 other ales were on - Cottage Morgan Plus 8, Fullers London Pride, Timothy Taylor Landlord and Sharps Doom Bar. blue_scrumpy - 17 Jul 2011 11:50 |
| For a CAMRA branch pub of the year it's a bit disappointing. Pride, Landlord, Doom Bar and Lancaster Amber on 29 June. A bit shabby. GuideDogSaint - 4 Jul 2011 22:29 |
| Firstly, the good stuff. I've been coming to this pub for a decade, about the same time the current owners have run it. It's easily the best pub in the area, and in some ways one of the best you'll ever go to. It's a genuine, friendly local, full of nice people and nice staff, but still very welcoming to visitors. People wander off to the loo or for a smoke, leaving phones, wallets, all sorts sitting on the bar, never a thought anyone would take them. There are never any fights or rows, no drunken stupidity, no hooligans or yobs. It's a second home to a lot of people in Hanwell. It's basically a village pub in a little enclave of London. If you're looking for a pint in the area, it's definitely the pub to visit. Now for the not so good, and I only say it in the hope it might spur the owners to change a few things. For a while now, commented on by many of the locals, there's been a sense of having absentee landlords, that they're happy to let things tick over and drift. Unfortunately, it's drifting downhill. There's no manager, just ever changing shifts of bar staff. The beers (three regulars and two guest), once excellent, are now average at best and often, like the last few days, terrible, undrinkable. When none of the beers are drinkable, there's not much else to tempt, either. The lagers on tap are all virtually identical - Fosters/Carlsberg/etc - no Leffe or Weissbier for variety. The fridge is packed with cider in the middle of winter, and four bottled lagers no one ever drinks. Why not lose some of the cider and put a few bottles of decent beer in there? And the wine list, geez. It's been commented on for years, but the wine is still execrable. Every time a decent wine pops up by accident, it disappears again, and we're left with the same rubbish (half of which is never in stock anyway). If there's nothing for us to drink, we're going to be hard pushed to spend any time (or money) in the place. - Sort out the beer, please -Get some decent wine and stick with it -Stop saying 'that's good enough to get away with' and start thinking about how the pub can improve -Get some authority behind the bar. It's nice that the pub is dog and child friendly, on during Sunday lunch you expect it, but someone has to tell a few notable people that having their kids running laps of the pub and screaming at 9 o'clock is not appropriate. It's not a ruddy creche. -Ask yourselves why some regulars you used to see six days a week barely come in anymore. I love this pub. PLEASE pull your fingers out and do something about it before it's too late. Fafnir - 21 Feb 2011 14:53 |
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