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Starford is a $#!thole. This pub is one of only two reasons to visit. the beers good and Ive never seen any bother in here which, considering the area, is a minor miracle.
Nice quiet and relaxed of a weekday evening. if your in Stratford go here - nice.
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Cracking local with good beer and stunning food. The sprouting broccoli with shrimp was sublime.
The best real ale selection in Stratford (the cognoscenti don't consider Wetehrspoons a proper pub!) with some unusual bottle beer (St Peters is excellent) and a wine list that would shame most restaurants.
The also run a superb monthly wine tasting led by some bloke from The Groucho.
If only all pubs were like this......
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I was amazed to see two or three drunk people being served at the bar, where they remained. I was even more amazed when the three of them almost won the pub quiz!
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Went after Leeds game at orient yesterday. Can only comment on the beer, which was fine and the clientelle mix which was very mixed.
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Studenty
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In summary if you fancy a drink its not a bad spot, but the food has pretentions that the kitchen is not capable of fulfilling. I think it popularity is a result of the other pubs in stratford not being too good.
The pub itself has a nice old interior. The drinks are pricey but a good range. The food I have been very disppointed with and no longer eat there, For example Sunday Lunch was served on cold plates and hense all cold on arrival. Venision burger was really dry as overcooked and served in the kind of cheep burger buns that you would buy from you local Costcutter !
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A quick visit Saturday lunchtime and quite impressed with the place it has wooden floorboards and an Victorian interior and is posh for Stratford.Tried Nethergate beer from Clare in Suffolk and was good but pricey.More a fancy food place I guess but it has its attractions.The toilets were worth a visit alone.
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Have only visited this place at lunchtime but it's always been an oasis in an area devoid of even quarter decent pubs. Good range of very well kept ales, very good food and a very attractive environment. I'm happy to pay the rather steep prices since it offers something which isn't available for miles around.
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One of Stratfords better pubs, although it's gone a bit poncy in the last couple of years. Maybe not such a bad thing, seeing as the majority of the boozers in Stratford are such sh*tholes. Sometimes I don't mind a pub with posh pretensions if it means a change from visiting a filthy drinking pit and getting my head kicked in.
And cohenst - you're wrong - Shakespeare actually dined on foie gras here, and drank a spendid glass of 1523 'Old Mans Thumper'.
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Hmmm, the only Stratford entry in GBG 2008, and, admittedly, I only stayed for a while, but I found it too noisy (ridiculous, unnecessary loud music that ill-matched the toned down decor) and a bit disappointing. Perhaps a rather harsh summation, but the Nethergate Best Bitter was pretty good.
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full or irons.... advoid unless you want to here people talking about the slave trade, how great divercity is and 'i can't belive it's 2007 and theres still racism in the world'
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After seeing the reviews on here & living near to Stratford, I grabbed my partner & we went here for lunch one Saturday. The service was spot on, food even better & the range of beers was great. My partner likes Ales, but also drinks a lot of belgian beers, so to find a pub that close to us that serves Leffe was lovely. Staff are really friendly & we'll definately be going back with a few friends in tow!
Minxy - 10 Oct 2007 14:45 |
Just a silly joke. Actually, I'm British. I thought you'd like the custom of hoards of gullible American tourists. Good luck with the pub.
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I guess that cohenst, being in America, doesn't know the difference between Stratford and Stratford-on-Avon, hence all the comments posted at 04:something. Never mind, he won't know that the Eddie is really quite a decent pub for the area. It does serve proper ale and has far more character than the Golden Grove.
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Shakespeare liked to kick back and smoke a cigar here.
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Don't be put off by the accompanying photo that looks like a restaurant! The front bar is quite traditional and dark and 'pubby', and is below pavement level. The toilets are very small and inadequate; but everywhere is clean, there's a surprising range of foods from light snacks through to posh stuff, there are three or four interesting real ales and the staff are friendly.
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Just missed the D8 bus, so thought why not pop in and have a quick one. Wasn't expecting to find such a great place. Nice selection of ales. I'll be back.
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What a dreery, dingy, dark, un inspiring tip !
anonymous - 5 Jul 2007 08:48 |
Beautifully quaint little pub, did I say little? It's only little at the front as it seems to sprawl miles the further you walk to the back. Restaurant with space aplomb and an extensive menu not to mention the tasteful decor.
I'm a musician who has recently been invited to play at their Open Mic's on Thursday nights and wow, the crowd was so supportive! The sound system was great! For once, there was no hostile atmosphere so often found in east end boozers. I hate the area but this pub is a real diamond in the rough.
Head on down at your next opportunity. You won't be dissapointed!
anonymous - 25 Jun 2007 14:23 |
A real gem in a rubbish area for pubs. 4 real ales on draught 2 from Nethergate, 6X and Summer Lightning when I visited. Great multi bar pub. Good Whisky selection. Even has a garden outside. Definitely worth a visit. The Nethergate Suffolk Bitter was top notch. Service was excellent and toilets were clean. Excellent!
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Have to agree with becks007 about this one. My heart always sinks when my work colleagues suggest going here instead of the Black Bull just down the road.
Surly staff and slow service have been the themes whenever I've been in there. Not been there for about 6 months now so it may have changed but I doubt it.
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i have to disagree and say i don't know a better pub in Stratford. Great beer, great food, nice staff and customers. With the smoking ban in coming into place more pubs will have to do more food to survive. get used to it. Top pub.
JB217 - 22 May 2007 22:23 |
How can this be the 3rd best pub in the country?
Its not even in the top 3 in Stratford.
If you want dinner go to a restaurant,if you want
a good drink go to a pub.
I dont dislike this place but I wish pubs would
be pubs and restaurants would be restaurants.
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Lovely food, great selection of beers, this is a gem in an area of grotty pubs.The one improvement to be made will come in the Summer when the smoking ban comes into effect.Can't wait.
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nice friendly pub, well kept ales, enticing menu, well worth a visit
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'King Eddy's' is a perfect old pub and the only reason for coming to Stratford. It's a traditional old place that does everything right, including the drinks and the exceptional food. God knows what it's doing in the middle of such a hell-hole, but it really is worth making the effort to get here. In a taxi, preferably, to avoid contact with all else Stratford.
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Haven't been in for a few years, and in the meantime it seems to have had a bit of a spruce up without touching any of the Victoriana that this pub is famous for. There is a new dining room off the back bar and a couple of comfy sofas in keeping with a new, low-key 'gastro' approach. I'm no fan of gastropubs, usually, but Stratford certainly needs one. By and large, pubs in this area tend to be flyblown hovels haunted by the lonely, or places where you can expect to have a broken ashtray rubbed in your face, and then partially eaten by an illegal fighting dog. Or Yates. Or Wetherspoon. So it's nice to come to a place in Stratford where you can get a decent, well-kept pint, sit on a clean chair at a clean table (with a beermat.) and actually enjoy a bit of civilisation in the crappiest corner of our great city.
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Good beers and nice food in a good old fashioned smokey pub... recommended!
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Nice warm friendly pub, good Food, went in one sunday pm for dinner was very nice indeed.
anonymous - 26 Aug 2006 14:30 |
King Eddies is really one of the best places to drink and eat in Stratford and probably most of the East end. The food is absolutely fantastic in the bar and in the restaurant. There's a board in the restaurant that describes what British food is in season and what's going out which is brillaint. You can tell that the food, drink and service means alot to the people that run it and the atmosphere is great. Really worth going to!
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im a pub manager from the area and im not affraid to say that i also think this is a nice pub. i dont use the premises but maybe other pubs should adopt some similar polices.
anonymous - 26 May 2006 12:31 |
Absolutely fantastic food, a whole class above the usual gastropub fare, and at very very reasonable prices. Great wine list too. Definitely worth the trip to Stratford; this was the best meal I've had in a long time.
anonymous - 24 May 2006 13:47 |
Is Stratford the bastard brother of Bradford? Cos these places are both as grim as each other. However, after the olympic nonsense we will no longer be able to sit and have a quiet cheap pint at the eddie - it will be a nobby gastropub full of 3-wheel buggies and yummy mummies. enjoy the silence whilst it lasts.
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The area around Stratford shopping centre and the station is a William Hogarth print made into a film by David Lynch. With a bit of Hieronymous Bosch chucked in. This pub really IS the only reason for going there. Well worth a visit if you happen to be in the area. If you sit in the windows at the front you can watch the winos punching each other in the street.
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I've always had a friendly reception at the Eddie and the food's good & varied as well as the beer.
It's an unusual layout with varied furiture, lots of dark wood and the building itself has a relaxing atmosphere.
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i really like this pub, looks like an old man boozer from the outside. But good young crowd on a thursday thru sunday night..
anonymous - 12 Jun 2005 21:19 |
The only reason to go to Stratford,
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A lively atmospheric pub and the best in E15. A fab cross section of patrons (do they still hold their D&D evenings mid week?) Used to by my local when I worked for a local bank. Great times back in the late 70s. Good juke box.
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Excellent pub with a selection of real ales (Adnams Broadside & Charles Wells Bombadier amongst others). Used to be a great haunt of students of the nearby University, but probably less so now as the upper bar has been transformed into a fully fledged restaurant.
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well i wouldnt go as far as to say stratford would be 100% sh**t if it wasn't for this bar as thats idiotic. Obviously this writer/rater likes their drink ;-)
I really like this friendly pub, young, trendy and good music. I hear they have a open mike night too. 8/10 rating.
anonymous - 9 Sep 2004 12:24 |
The only reason to go to Stratford is for this pub. The rest of the place is like Rhyl on a bleak weekend.
Thankfully, the Eddie manages give some sort of hope for the residents and locals.
Rachel - 5 Mar 2004 19:04 |
Stratford would be 100% sh** other than this fantastic boozer and the fact that I live there.
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fabulous pub, great atmoshere and good food. Landlord not bad either
sharron dumez - 27 Jan 2004 17:11 |
Apart from that recidivist alco bullshitter Dave Bass (a.k.a Gibson - Gibbon more like (geddit?)) charming atmos with the trendy young things of E15 splendid pint of Scrumpy Jack not to be found here fair chance of a shag (though skag mor likely) after nineish on a Saturday evening. Highly (!) recommended
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Fantastic pub,went in for a drink on 02/06/03,great barman called dave bass, nice beer aswell. 9/10
d gibson - 6 Jun 2003 12:31 |
East-End boozer, youngish 20-30 something crowd, friendly, relaxed and good natured staff and customers, good choice of food and beer (usually 4-5 real ales on at a time).
Seán - 17 Mar 2003 09:12 |
