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great great great
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it's a great pub since dave took over has turned it around fantasticly dj night is brill loads of old skool and kareoke is brill cheap beer friendly staff and customers do i really need to say anymore
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You get what you pay for and this place was one of the cheaper that we found. Need I say more.
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Visited early one Monday lunchtime. Was quiet at the time so found a seat easily. Pride/IPA were on and the Pride I had was OK. Previous reviewers describe the pub accurately. Real chainy feel about the place and despite their best efforts the place has no character.
If you want a good beer I suggest you go to the Steel & Star just round the corner. Although, I suspect the women I work with may prefer the Duke purely because it doesn't feel like a drinkers pub. I did notice that the majority of the clientele were females having lunch.
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OK darts area. Maybe slightly too close to the pool tables, which seem to often be full of city tossers playing a 25-person game of killer. Karaoke can also get in the way of darts. Beer poor.
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Fairly large, faceless, ground floor pub set into a drab modern building. It has all the hallmarks of a featureless plastic Wetherspoons without the benefits of a decent beer selection or the cheap prices. The large multi screened single room has a twin pool table area at one end and a small raised area at the other than can be closed off for private functions. In between there are several tables but not much chance of getting one when busy. The beers are standard fare (Pride / IPA) and the staff totally inept. Every pint we witnessed being pulled was a short measure and when my wife couldn’t see what beers were on, she asked what Real Ales were available only to discover they did not know what a Real Ale was. Awful music, dreadfully packed with large office groups blocking the entrances and totally lacking in character. The outside patio is probably the only redeeming feature but unless the weather is right and the hordes are elsewhere, it is probably best avoiding the pub altogether unless you like this sort of thing.
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Considering the excellent location and large size, inside and out, this boozer is a disappointment. Has pool and darts, food menu seems pretty good though I haven't tried it. Major problem is that the beer quality and range are both below average.
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This pub used to be great now the staff are unfriendly close when they feel like and you tend to feel like a spare part in a big pub but very few customers not welcoming at all. A waste of a pub that could be great.
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previous comment? I used to go to this pub alot but then last August it was my birthday so i had a group of people and we were sitting outside as it was still warm, we had a few bottles of wine on the table, then at 9.45 they turned all the lights off outside and said they were closing, made us feel very unwelcome. i took and my wine and went to the pub round the corner S & S. The only thing about the duke is the rose wine is cheap and nice.
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It seems this pub doesn't like to look after its regular customers, or in fact anyone who is spending money in their pub. As a regular, I use to rate this pub quite highly and tell many friends about it. But not any more.
Friday nights, their opening times are apparently until 12:00pm. In fact they have it on a sign posted on the bar. But at 10:45pm we were all told to leave, they were closing. We had a full bottle of wine, a new game of pool just started and had freinds just joined us. The staff rudely took our drinks off the table and said they wanted to go home!! I don't doubt the pub is empty of 10:30 if that is the service you get. I would suggest change your sign that states your opening hours and hire staff who want to work!
anonymous - 30 Jan 2006 14:36 |
I know this pub becasues for the last 12 months I have been a regular attendee at their Thursday night karaoke run by Kevin.
Kevin runs by far the best karaoke in London - great sound system, great choice of music, really tightly run so lots of people choose to attend. He has built up the reputation of this pub as the place to go for karaoke in the City ... too good to be true?
Well sadly yes ...
The management of this pub in their infinite wisdom have decided to dispense with Kevin and replace what was an outstanding weekly event with a weak, inferior, second rate alternative. So disgusted am I and my friends that we will be withdrawing our custom from this pub (and telling everyone else to do the same) until they see sense and reinstate the previous quality.
Sorry to be so negative but pubs have to learn that is they devalue quality in the interests of making more profit, then it is they that will lose in the long run.
anonymous - 2 Dec 2005 16:52 |
