Gloucester Arms, Kentish Townback to pub details please note - reviews on this site are purely the opinion of site visitors, so don't take them too seriously.
When I last came here they had just changed management so I could forgive them the mess that the pub seemed to be in. A few months later I paid another visit only to find it closed for a much needed refurbishment. I recently paid a third visit to see the results. There were certainly plenty of aesthetic improvements and it all looks a bit tidier and neater. A plasma screen had replaced the old basic telly and the manky old heaters in the fireplaces have now also gone. To the rear, the large room, more geared for functions, has seen a lick of paint and the dart board appears to have been permanently removed along with the tatty and decidedly empty trophy cabinet. There is a separate pool room accessed from the road (or via the Gents loos from inside). None of the improvement can however mask the fact that this remains a pretty basic and unappealing pub with equally unappealing customers of limited vocabulary. There is little on the beer front, just the standard keg beers. I have never seen more than half a dozen punters inside despite being situated in a largely residential area whilst every other pub in Kentish Town is usually bustling every night. I can’t really say I blame people too much for staying away.
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What a shite hole! staff very unfriendly.
gmanhartley wrote about Caroline being a diamond???
F**k**` mutton dressed as lamb pure oul gin woman!
govenor Pat and his oul woman Jackie are a disgrace working behind the bar while drinking not a place to go with friends or family!!!!
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the gloucester arms is a good boozer the new management is brilliant Caroline is a diamond n the guiness is poured with perfection top marks to the pub
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I would kind of agree with onthetoot about the bar staff. When the bar staff are there... I think this is the only pub i have seen where the punters are serving themselves pints and ?pays? when the bar man comes back. How ever, i haven't served myself, the regulars help you with that.
The pub itself is great. Really good seats and tables. The bar has got good features, a bit mixed up from 1930s to 1960s style.
But yes, the clientelle are quite something...
There is a nice beer garden, you get a bit of feeling of council estate as the kids play ball games on concrete in a cage. It's worth a visit!
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What a shit hole! This is actually a very nasty little place! The bar staff are as unfriendly as the regulars. Unless you are an active member of the IRA I suggest this pub is best avoided. The toilets are grafittied with pro-IRA slogans and the regulars look as though they may take you out to the 'scenic painted garden' and either shoot your knee-caps or slit your throat!
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a really friendly pub
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