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Best pint since last landlord. Back to its best charming quiet pub where one can relax.
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I visit this pub regularly. The Fullers beers are all excellent - they serve Chiswick, Pride and ESB on draught with an occassional Fullers special like the mighty IPA recently.
The food is now traditional (although including a fine Chilli Nachos !), but good quality and well priced.
A recent addition is mini pies in a variety of fillings (and a sausage roll) available all day (12-11:30) for £1.70 - a great accompaniement to a few pints.
The new cheesey motto from the management 'Real Ale, Real Pies, Real Pub' is very accurate and if you enjoy things as they should be you should visit the Andy.
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Went there just before Christmas and 3 of the real ales were off. Also found out they were not doing Thai food anymore which will hit their evening trade.
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Went there just before Christmas and 3 of the real ales were off. Also found out they were not doing Thai food anymore which will hit their evening trade.
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Pub is unchanged internally, but you need to be aware that the Thai food people have gone.
Now serving British food - but at prices that reflect the affluence of the area
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The end of an era! Tom and Maura, who have run the pub for about 14 years, are retiring today. Good luck, you will be missed.
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This is a wonderful local. Fantastically well looked after Beer - local atmosphere, friendly folk. Even the thai food (which is excellent) fits in well.
10/10
anonymous - 1 Oct 2007 15:08 |
Only three people in there at around 1.45 PM on a Friday - and one of them was the barman. I guess I just hit the dead time - a few more people would have lent it some welcome atmosphere. But this is definitely my kind of pub - the unpretentious backstreet boozer. The ESB was top notch and I was sorry that I did not have the time to stay for one or two more pints. In my view worth seeking out.
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This is a difficult pub to review - on the one hand it hasn't succumbed to some awful brewery renovations, and as a result it has retained something. However, I don't feel it is a pub with a lot of innate charm. I have a drinking buddy who rates this place very highly, but personally I think that's it is just an ordinary local boozer. Additionally, whilst the thai food seems very popular, I'm not sure it fits in with the general characteristics of the place. I imagine if you live locally you could come to love this place, but I don't thinks it's worth making a special effort to visit.
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An excellent pub, well worth the effort of finding it. Spotlessly clean, well looked after and serving well kept Fullers beer.
Floyd - 19 Jul 2007 09:28 |
Tucked away in a maze of residential streets, this traditional pub has a real 'local' atmosphere that comes as something of a surprise in this affluent area. Excellent Fullers beers, as one would expect. Well worth seeking out.
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They had a festival in October 06 which was excellent.
They have just had another which was sxcellent .
What a little gem.
anonymous - 14 Mar 2007 20:33 |
Has London Porter on draught at present - and very moreish it is too. Note that there is a beer festival on between 9 - 11 March
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This is a proper pub with wonderful proprieters. The way a pub should be. Friendly staff and locals. A pub cat that owns the place. Beer is kept well as the landlord is a master cellarman. Don't miss this gem
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Really enjoyable and unpretentious pub. Above average Fullers (inc. Chiswick) and a decent Pad Thai. Decent prices as well, and a good crowd in there.
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In my view probably the best "proper pub" in London, plus the beer is always in first rate condiiton
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Held an excellent Beer Festival last week .To be congratulated
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In a world where most Pubs have turned into swanky drinking rooms with plastic furniture and bad lighting. The Andover remains in the real sense a pub. Quiet and local, this is a friendly spot for a pint. Try the pub quiz on a sunday, and battle local favourites 'smell my cheese', 'the black belt pensioners' , 'the 4 emporers' or even 'vision off'. And despite its more old world charm, you can still get a fantstic thai meal here as well.
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Blimey !! A real old fashioned pub. I think it helps it's not on the main road. You have to search this one out.
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You wont be disappointed in this Fullers/Thai combination pub off the main road.
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I agree, a real pub (bar the thai food on offer-which is excellent nonetheless)proper local with regulars and patterned carpets, an endangered species.
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A real pub with real ale and real people. Also, the beer is well kept and completely recognisable.
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Very attractive, beautifully decorated traditional pub boasting a lovely cat called Thomas and very friendly bar staff. Unfortunately though, on my first visit the Fullers ales - both ESB and Pride - were so badly kept as to be unrecognisable.
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Lovely traditional local pub. I can now find it without the A-Z, shows how much I like it. Minor gripe - should the London Pride be £2.65 a pint, when its only £ 2.35 in The Salutation on nearby King Street ? It's nonsense for a tenanted pub to have to charge 30p more. Have Fullers put the rent up again at the Andover Arms, I wonder ?
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An excellent pub. Some of the best kept Fuller's you can drink. The Chiswick is especially good at the moment. No music. Good reasonably priced Thai food. They always have the seasonal ales too.
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Nice friendly traditional local of a kind that seems sadly rare nowadays. London Pride on good form - but expensive ( this is a tenanted pub, I think )
I like Thai food, but a proper traditional pub like this should do proper traditional food
John - 3 Nov 2004 10:50 |
This is a truly great pub with a wonderful atmosphere, unspoilt and definitely not themed. Tom and Moira are the archetypal landlord couple serving their regulars and casuals with equal ease. The beer is superb as is the Thai food which is simple but very tasty. Don't tell too many people about the place as it is fine just the way it is!
Berg - 15 May 2004 18:36 |
Great Thai food, nice wine, beer is good too, Tom and Moira (the landlord & landlady) are really sweet, and the pub quizz on Sunday nights is great fun. A nice local pub without fuss.
Yolaine Bech - 19 Apr 2004 15:30 |
Excellent Thai food, always consistent and not a bad wine list.
Libby - 19 Feb 2004 16:11 |
Nice friendly neighbourhood local with loose attitude towards drinking up time. Good, well-kept Fullers. Excellent Thai food. Many Thatched House regulars changed allegiance to the Andover after Bedford Jezzard left the Thatch in the mid-80s. - cc
Chris C - 15 Jan 2004 16:49 |
great local with very friendly regulars
andy - 10 Dec 2003 15:52 |
Part Thai restaurant, excellent for a plateful and a pint.
Neil - 24 Sep 2003 14:18 |
This is a superbly traditional Fuller's pub in Hammersmith Village which is quite a nice setting. Whilst "Kev" enjoyed his London Pride on 05/08/2003, I have to add that the Chiswick and ESB have always been in top condition during my visits, and also the Thai menu is excellent. This pub has a warm homely atmosphere afforded by a friendly landlord & landlady, and the pub is definitely worth a visit. It is amongst the best Fuller's pubs I have had the pleasure to drink in.
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this is a great local with fantastic London Pride
kev - 5 Aug 2003 13:13 |
This is a real local in an area most of whose pubs are either upmarket (e.g. the Anglesea Arms) or gone (e.g. the Duke of York). Part of the reason for this may be it seems to have a landlord and landlady rather than a 'manager'.
Chris - 2 Jul 2003 13:19 |
friendly back street local with Fullers ales consistently well kept.
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