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God knows that this pub could be great but... sadly they let theselves down on service and cleanliness.
Don't order off the draught unless you have a butchers at another punters and it was ok. Eat before or after. The last time I was in there, staff had not swept the garden area and there was broken glass out there. A no-no at the best of times but hopeless in summer and doubly so when there were children present.
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Possibly one of the worst pubs in London for customer service.They have around 10 people behind the bar all of whom seem utterly oblivious to the fact that they are there in order to get drinks. Prepare to wait half an hour to then be greeted by a less than luke warm welcome. The only reason I can see that there is anyone in this pub is because it is round the corner to a whole bunch of offices.
The toilets, even the ladies stink to high heaven and you are risking you health everytime you go in them.god forbid you are unlucky enough to have to stand near them!
A few weeks ago I went there at lunch for someones birthday, we all ordered the overpriced food and waited for it eagerly. Shepherds pie that costs £10 ought to be good. After a long wait the food appeared, ALL except mine. The staff were unhelpful when I asked where mine was and barely grunted a reply. Ten minutes later it arrived, it looked tasty so I started muunching only to realise that it was frozen in the middle.
In short this place is overpriced and badly run.
ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK!
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Up and down the City Road...
Well I popped in here last night to find another of the M & B pubs which have a few real ales, a range of foreign beer and various sized tables, chairs and sofas. Beer garden out the back
Brains Reverend James, Pride, Deuchars IPA and Westons cider. Sierra Nevada on draught too. Took a while to get served although on a sunny evening after work that's to be expected.
Worth a stop on the way to the Wenlock.
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have to agree with a comment a few down from this one
the last three times I've been here I've swapped beers as there's been something floating in it, it's been flat, or just tasted downright wrong - hardly surprising the barman gives a look of dread when walking through the door
shame as I went there a few times last summer and it was bang on for food and beer - get fixing the probs and it'd be a great booza, if a bit full of the poncey set
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Haven't ventured back in since I had to change 3 different cloudy pints on the trot, despite the rather abrupt antipodean bartender trying to convince me 'that's how it should be'. Errm, I don't think so mate, g'day.
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Nice enough place, with some decent draught beers on, but slightly lacking the authentic 'pub' feel - perhaps more aimed and the wine and food market?
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Famous pub just off the City Road. Dark and relatively spacious inside clearly designed to cater for large groups of people with long wooden benches and tables. They don't bat an eyelid when you try to pay by card, which probably tells you what sort of clientele they tend to get. Good range of guest beers, including drinkable foreign lager, though I wouldn't recommend buying a round too often as it is basically over £3.00 a standard pint. Good but very expensive range of bar food. Nice paved beer garden where you can bask in parafin heat and listen to the police testing their sirens in the adjacent yard. There is a regretable tendency in this pub for someone to come round at about 1900 and put a piece of paper on your table saying that it is reserved from 2000. I suggest eating the paper with some Wasabi peas.
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Went here for the first time in December 2007. What a great place. Very friendly ( staff & customers ), fast service, wide range of beers, reasonable prices, large heated beer garden and, what really pleased me, they were open until 1.00am.Definitely will be here again.
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Pleasantly surprised -good food, friendly staff and a range of drink that was both good and well-kept.
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Lovely pint of Schneider Weiss soothed my tonsillitis ridden throat and my stomach was pleasured by a delicious burger. Will happily return too again even if I did lose my Leyton Orient hat there.
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Having only known The Eagle since the middle of 2007, I'm a little confused as to why it's rating isn't one of the highest. I can only assume that it's improved a lot. There is one of the most extensive selections of a range of drinks, the food is very good and the service quick and there is a great buzz to the place, particularly in the heated beer garden. A solid 9/10 for me.
anonymous - 16 Oct 2007 10:57 |
Not a bad little place to come to after work on a Friday afternoon/evening. Usually a few fellow Moorfields coworkers to be seen but it does tend to get a bit busy so if I don't get there early enough to get a seat, I don't bother going at all due to the limited space inside.
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Would like to say in the last few month's the service as improved lot's. I would suggest that anyone who has had bad service before, try the eagle again. I'm sure you will change your mind.
anonymous - 14 Feb 2007 01:25 |
Another really characterful pub, although full of the Sunday lunch brigade. Decent beer choice (Titanic), though more people drinking keg cider ! OK really.
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caught a bite and a few beers here monday night, good Guinness, a good selection of real ales and a very well stocked bar. went for bangers and mash - was ok, not fantastic, but would go again and gladly try something else on the menu. nice enough staff, and fairly speedy service for the food, generally a nice pub in the thick of things by Moorfields
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Definetley a pub. not a Gatro pub. Having said that the food is good and speedy.
Suprised by the remarks below about the service. Maybe cos of the shape of the bar but ive never had an issue getting served here.
The garden has been cleared up now as well so you can sit under the Gazibo with the heaters going full bore even at this time of year.
theyve also got a DJ playing from 8 on a friday night now. Haven't been in but i think hes playing more chilled out than head banging by the look of the poster
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went there for the first time a few weeks ago, have to agree the service was woeful, took ages to get served, not because of a lack of staff, but poorly trained staff. Decent bar staff know who's been at the bar longest and serve that person, they don't just serve who they feel like serving.
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Good pub. Good beer garden. Awful service - bar staff who never seem to know who's been waiting longest, and tend to wander off to do other things...
anonymous - 17 Jul 2006 09:20 |
Up and down the City Road
In and out the Eagle
That’s the way the money goes
Pop goes the weasel
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With food as bad as this it could never be described as a gastropub.
Probably one of the smokiest pubs in London
Staff are pretty grumpy and inefficient as well.
(Apart from that its great!!)
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The Eagle is not in any way, shape or form a wine bar or gastro pub. It is a pub. It is different because it caters for young people as well as old and has some premium continental products for those of us who like to try something new. But it is still a pub. And a great one at that in my opinion.
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I disagree, its a pub - just a modern one.
anonymous - 13 Mar 2006 08:43 |
I didn't realise this place had already been "Stonched". You're quite right - it's not really an out and out gastropub but then it can't really be categorised as a full blooded pub or a wine bar. It's a bit of a mix of all 3 and difficult to pigeonhole. I was a bit miffed that I was the 10th rating and unwittingly sent it temporarily flying to No 1 in the Top 40 but fortunately it has now come down a couple of pegs.
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Roger your review is good and fair, giving a fairly accurate picture of what is on offer here. But can I take issue with the use of the term gastropub, which is being bandied around too much, and doesn't really apply to the Eagle. Sure, its a place that offers a full menu and clearly wants people to partake in it, but its not really a gastropub like, for example, its namesake the Eagle on Farringdon Road, the originator of the style. In this place drinking clearly comes before food. I think if we start classing places like this as gastropubs, one would literally have to class more than 50% of boozers in London as gastropubs, making the term meaningless.
anonymous - 10 Mar 2006 16:33 |
I popped in here a couple of times a few years ago when I had to walk past on Tube Strike days. I remembered it as a pretty decent pub displaying all the merits that go with a traditional Victorian local’s pub. Went in here this week for an “emergency” pint whilst passing by and found the place has been gastrocised although to be fair, the transformation has at least been done sympathetically. The decorative pillars still remain and whilst not being a fan of gastropubs, the Eagle has at least retained some of its old charm. Dim lighting gives the pub a intimate feel and there a mixed style of seating to suit both drinkers and diners. Not sure about the hanging fairy lights though or the “dentists chair” by the door. 3 Real Ales including Batemans XXXXB. My main gripe would be the lack of attention from the staff – apart from giving my wife a sparkling water instead of still (rather grumpily replaced), my elbow was positively sticking to the bar every time I leant on it and the toilets were awash with what I hope was water. The main claim to fame is of course its mention in the Pop Goes The weasel nursery rhyme and will always therefore have a place in London pub history. These days it is not my cup of tea but if you are into gastropubs, this is probably fairly decent choice.
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Yes, UncleDunkel, I know about the Wenlock, obviously a wonderful pub in its way - but that fact these Mitchells & Butlers places like the Eagle and the Island Queen are serving good real ale with unusual guests as a cause for mucho celebration.
anonymous - 10 Mar 2006 15:24 |
If you are after real ale, not that the wonderful Wenlock
is just up the road!
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Seemed great when I popped in for a half at six on a Friday evening - pretty packed at that time. Loads of seating.
Great selection of beers - German, Czech, Belgian -lagers, white beers, ales. Something for everyone. Three fairly unusual real ales on (certainly not standard) - Marstons Old Empire and two I had never seen before (can't remember the names).
I was served very quickly despite it being busy.
Same "chain" as the Crown on Clerkenwell Green, the Castle at Farringdon, Crown and Sceptre in Fitzrovia and the Barley Mow in Shoreditch - owned by Mitchell & Butler's, a group of victorian heritage pubs made trendy in a sympathetic way (i.e. original features intact but with fairy light hanging off them, that kind of vanilla bullshit). Great stuff all of them - half-decent food, amazing beers.
Great to see a historic pub being modernised without being gutted.
anonymous - 18 Feb 2006 13:56 |
This is a must visit pub for the history - the famous music hall, and the referencing in the nursery rhyme - Up and down the City Road / In and out The Eagle / That's the way the money goes / Pop goes the weasel. The pub itself is large and comfortable and cheerful. Good seats. Good bar staff. Good food. Decent enough.
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Mix of standard real ales and continental lagers. Menu looks familiar but no experience. Wonderful staff. 6/10.
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This is a lovely pub. It's so steeped in history (see the plaque outside), and really nicely done up, that it's great inside (good food too) and quite cosy if the weather's a bit crap. However, the best bit is the beer garden, it is brilliant and makes you feel like you're on holiday when the sun is shining. it's full of fairy lights and mirrors and trailing leaves and they do a barbecue. it's one of my favourite outside drinking spots in London.
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Good pub. Nice looking, chilled and welcoming. Food is great on the whole, but when they do a BBQ (sunny summer days) the burgers are not as good as the normal ones and you get plastic plates! Fab chunky chips. It's a bit more expensive than other pubs in the area but you pay for quality!
anonymous - 9 Jul 2005 18:37 |
Great pub!!! great beer garden, fanastic food and the most friendly bar staff I have ever meet...especially the tall aussie guy.
Would recommend this homely pub to everyone
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Good pub but below average food. Always when you go there especially to eat the food is tasteless and reheated (e.g. half frozen sauasages, very lumpy mash) but if you are there drinking and then fancy something to eat, chances are it'll be great! They need more consistency with the kithcen - do not deviate from the sandwiches and burgers and you'll be fine - everything else is too risky at this date!!
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Lively, attractive, well-kept pub with modern art on the walls. Young, trendy, noisy crowd. Pleasant and relaxed. They sell a good pint of Wadworth 6X. Haven't tried the food but the menu looks good, and meals are around £7.
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The Eagle is a gorgeous little pub with friendly staff and a laid back atmosphere. What it lacks in quality beer, it makes up for with good food.
The recently added garden at the back and selection of retro boards it is the ideal post-work drinking venue.
Interesting history as well, it's the pub featured in the song Pop goes the Weasel, as in "Up and down the City Road, in and out the Eagle".
Jack Smith - 16 Sep 2004 14:34 |
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