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Hamish lives here now - drop in for a beer and show him some support!!!
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used 2 go here after a good 10 pints in shepards bush after watching qpr. live in burnham so liv st was on way back. ok pub not bad.
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Nary a racist to be seen. Hooray!
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The beer's always been perfectly good here, and the staff friendly and good-natured. Usually a good selection of real ales including some of my favourites, such as Greene King IPA. The karaoke (dowstairs on Thursdays) is run by the excellent Fiona. She's fond of her regulars, of course, but she's always concerned to give newcomers an encouraging welcome, which is how come she has so many regulars. If you put your name up and didn't get to sing then I guess you were in the loo when your name was called!
anonymous - 21 Jan 2007 17:07 |
its not that good come on tomas, if you recmmend a sing along in here with that karaoke, i think you better get out just a bit more, i would give it -5 out of 10...
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Brilliant Thursday evening here, well looked after and a great laugh singing along to karaoke. Recommended.
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I'm not knocking the barmaid policy here, although it seems to have taken a bit of a dive recently. Last night I ordered a pint of Kronie downstairs, the barmaid accidentally chucked 5p change into the pint. She made an admirable attempt to retrieve the coin using a pair of prongs sat at the side of the bar. Failing at this, she dragged it out with a fork then offered me a 'top-up' instead of draining the pint and offering me a fresh one. Shocking. Positively shocking.
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Great beer and tasty barmaids. What more can you ask for?
anonymous - 27 Jun 2006 21:18 |
Spent the evening here last week. Had the fish and chips and a pint of Fullers. My partner had the steak pie and mash. Must say the food was excellent, manager really hospitable and the beer was as it should be. The cellar bar downstairs is beautiful although the whole pub could do with a refurb. Very busy and the staff under pressure but coping admirably and even looked happy to be there. All in all a good experience and thoroughly recommended.
anonymous - 27 Jun 2006 21:12 |
If this pub has a casque mark, it should be removed!! Had a pint of Broadside which, due to the barman's deliberate technique, had rather a large head on it - so I politely asked for him to top it up.
He did - but after first giving me a look as if I'd asked him to give Georg W Bush a blow-job. And, amazingly, he ensured the excess went into the next pint!! Unbeleivable - and gross!!
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pop in with some friends for drinks on a thurday night, just did not like it, had some karaoke going on put my name up for a song and just did get called up all night, good job she was not working behind the bar we would have had on drinks all night, she would have just served her friends, she was calling people who did not put there name up ??? how ??? o well the staff where not that bad as we got served after 15mins... did not like it and if my friends ever want to go agen they can , not me
anonymous - 7 May 2006 21:21 |
Devoid of any saving graces save one..the service was swift, however the Pride wasn't very good, the barmaid inept, the food was still part frozen when it was served and it was raining hard outside!!
Thats it really, a shame because the location holds so much promise...
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I was not at all impressed with this pub. Not exceptionally ugly or pleasant inside, and might be fun for people-watching out the window, but the clientele are loud, obnoxious suits, and the staff seemed to be almost completely without a clue. I had to engage in a guessing game with the barmaid as to which beers were actually "on". It took four guesses before I got one that was actually available (actually, I cheated--after three wrong guesses, I finally asked her what she was able to sell me, and she said, "I think the London Pride isn't empty").
With several better-looking or better-run pubs within a few hundred yards, I strongly recommend giving the White Hart a miss in your Spitalfields pubgoing.
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Zero ambience, zero class, and full of weirdos or suits having one pint. Never going to be a classic pub given its location and, therefore, its inherently transient clientele. But still rubbish.
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Another example of location overcoming a multitude of sins. The beer, service and food are all attrocious in here and if not for being so close to the station it would have been put down a generation ago. Head straight for the train and drink in Shenfield instead. BTW why is it called the '199'.
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Service not bad, beer average.
Can get quite busy when there is a football match on, but far too smoky and grubby. They should fix the aircon - they say they have a non smoking area - no idea where that was...
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Since it is Crime Awareness day, 2 things: the price of the pints in here, and the managers attitude.
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Had a great night here. Friendly staff and good beer. Pie and mash as it should be.
anonymous - 1 Oct 2005 16:14 |
Service is about as bad as it can get.
Beers are not kept well (despite the Cask Marque).
A lunchtime food order for 10 had 5 arrive after 30 mins and the remainder took over an hour to arrive (after the others had finished). The mashed potato was cold for those whose meals arrived last, just warmed with the gravy on top.
Fish & chips - sizeable & not bad.
Ham & cheese melt - unbelievably poor.
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Very average pub. Why bother, 4 cans of tennants and park bench will do.
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Had just arrived back in town after a nightmare sunday train/coach journey from a friends 30th birthday weekend and needed some serious food and re-tox. Stumbled across this pub with my fellow casualties and was thoroughly impressed, mostly because the the food was fabulous. The barstaff were friendly and the beer as it should be. The downstairs cellar bar was open for food and more relaxing than the main bar with a good choice of tunes playing. If you fancy a bite to eat I highly recommend the fish in beer batter - yum! My mates steak & ale looked good too. Paul said his chickeny barbeque thing was okay but quite frankly paled in comparison.
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It's dirty, it's full of wideboy tossers, the beer is hardly ever 'on'. A tragic excuse for a pub.
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Don't knock the Romanian barmaid, always perfectly pleasent when I've been in here and does a fine job IMHO. Can't comment on the Broadside but the Pride was pretty good.
michael - 27 Oct 2004 15:18 |
Walked in, saw all four ales were finished, walked out again.
Bravo, White Hart, Bravo.
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Had the worst pint of Adnam's Broadsie ever :-(. And that was once the barman "graciously" decided to serve me. Only popped in as handily located for the station and it was showing the footy. Otherwise, this pub sucks! How the blazes did it get a Casque Mark award?!!
Darren in the City - 26 Aug 2004 16:40 |
Good splattering of romainian barmaids - 'Eezz zere enting elze you wood liek?'. Reasonable priced booze with fairly nice food. Effing ace!
Jonny Boy - 20 Aug 2004 15:55 |
Well its one of those typical old London type of pubs with the main advantage being you can stumble to Liverpool St Station without much trouble even after a few pints. Not the sort of place you are going to run into a Britney but for a quiet chat its worth a visit because you are guaranteed not to get interupted.
geoff - 23 Feb 2004 11:29 |
The picnic tables outside when the temperature has not reached double figures for the last 3 months declared an optimism that drew us to the place. If you read the history (on the back of the food menu), there has been an Inn or hostelry on the site for hundreds of years. The decor adds weight to this, having firmly resisted the rapid pace of refurbishment by the competition. After 5 beers though, the decor isn't that bad. After 6, the proximity to the station is an advantage. After 7, the picnic tables became a serious impediment to my intended route home. Not a place to impress the ladies, but for cheeky beers on the way home near the station it will do fine.
Alex - 17 Feb 2004 09:10 |
But it's only saving grace is that it does Old Speckled Hen (or at least it used to)
Darren - 5 Aug 2003 08:42 |
Quite seriously - rubbish. Opens on weekends, if you're stuck in the City, and has big screen sport all the time. But always full of the kind of weirdos who hang around railway stations, and with that horrid, cheaply-furnished sticky-lino-floored non-ambience that London pubs often have.
Matt - 5 Aug 2003 06:14 |
If your friend finds it impossible not to fall off of bar stools then I would stay clear... although we have never managed to! Good for a giggle and a cheesey boogie in the middle of the week.
T - 22 Apr 2003 15:29 |
