City Tavern, City Of Londonback to pub details please note - reviews on this site are purely the opinion of site visitors, so don't take them too seriously.
I LOVE DIEGO!
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I'm starting the Save Diego! campaign, Oh he is actually Colombian and in my opinion he makes the place, each to their own.
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Never before have we visited a bar and been made quite so unwelcome. Diego, the Spanish Barman, would make Basil Fawlty seem polite. On arrival, we wanted to make sure they did food before we got settled, so we asked and were told very abruptly to WAIT. The drinks eventually surfaced, and the food was actually very nice (and cheap).
However he made it perfectly clear at 1030 that we were to leave by 11! "I don't get paid after 11pm" he announced. I cannot believe the brewery expects him to work until drinking up time for free but hey.
We were told to get off the fruit machines at 1030, last orders were announced 30 minutes early and the air conditioning started blasting out icy air at 10.50! According to Diego it was "automatic". Funny that - when the whole pub went up in arms it somehow became manual.
Then all the external doors were thrown open at 11.01 and the games began. Random factor closes door, Diego freaks out and opens them. Another random closes door, Diego goes ballistic. Every minute we were told to drink up and leave in the rudest manner possible. Oh - and we bought him a drink to try and cheer him up and he didn't even thank us.
Needless to say we will not be returning to this unwelcoming pub. Let's hope it's demolished along with the rest of Cheapside. With Diego in it!
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My favourite bar in the City. What makes it is the staff Diego etc. The Staff are always up for a laugh and add to the atmosphere.
Everything else about the pub is fairly normal but myself and the locals go back regularly just for the atmosphere. A local pub atmosphere in the City Surroundings
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A large, spacious, traditional style pub situated in a less than impressive concrete block in the back streets behind Cheapside. Standard set of beers / lagers (Greene King Abbott + IPA) at reasonable prices. The plasma screens are used mainly for sport and there are pool tables and large upstairs bar for dining or private functions. Not really anything to mark it as outstanding but by the same token, there is no reason not to have a decent session here. Popular with after work city drinkers and you don't need to earn £6o grand a year to fit in with the crowd.
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Greene King beer reasonably priced at £2.50 per pint. Sky sports on the tv. Everything seems to be made from wood. It's the sort of pub that I would like next door to my office. Good, friendly atmosphere and not the sort of place you would just walk into on the off chance as it is tucked away.
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Been drinking here for years. There is certain grotty charm about the place. No bells, no whistles. It the kind of place the boys from the postroom would drink.
Good pool tables downstairs.
Not been the same since Conroy, the jive talking barman left. He was a mixture of the 'ya catch my drift' guy off the Drifter advert and the lanky crow in the Kia-Ora advert!
anonymous - 9 Feb 2006 10:18 |
I think i am the fruitie man!!! F**king things rigged i tell thee.
Diego is without doubt the craziest barman in the world, i have never met someone who comes to this country and after 10 years their english actually gets worse....unbelievable.
If anyone ventures into this wonderful Royston Vasey styled pub you must tell Diego that he is a retardado Burro. he will love it.
There is also some lanky fella always in there, listen out for a high pitched laugh followed by the phrase :'dreams'....beware of this man he is a sandwich short of a picnic. 'Smudger' as he is affectionately known, has a rather dark secret. Something about self harming and angry masturbation cos he cant win on the xbox?!
As people have said, a real pub with real characters always worth a pint
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Yeah you're spot on re the regulars mate,...its anything but a city boozer in here,..and for that reason alone its worth a visit,.....objectively though: rough as arseholes.
Always amuses me people who go to an inner city shithole in order to sit outside,.they fcuking do it here (on B & Q seats).....Don't get me wrong,..i am the first to admit that there is a time and a place for "The Outside",..and am willing to experience it myself on special occasions (tube strikes etc),....but fck me,..why bother here,..sandwiched between high rise buildings,..engulfed in the excrement pouring out of the rearside ventilation systems. Fucking funny,..."all the action is inside pal,...Wayne is snogging Julie from accounts under the TV,..Diegos telling the one about the mexican and the hoover and I think Darrens about to win the Jackpot on Lucky Strike......."
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Diegos' wit from behind the jump is worth the visit on it's own. Some real characters in this wateringhole tucked nicely out of the way. There's the bloke who plays the fruit machine every lunchtime, leaves credit in when he's busting for a piddle or has to go to the cashpoint for more funds. The chaps who hog the touch screen game. The couple who snog under the big screen (I think hes' married) Upstairs terrace bar downstairs pool/sports bar. Beware the dry roast nuts are out of date!
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