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Nice pub, good staff, clinical....
business model may need revisit. Still a great pub!
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This place is popular with the 'Yokels' - some with a strange foreign accent. Attractive, well maintained premises with two large lounges, space for meals, and seating outside on the pavement. Nice enough place to visit with very good staff and crowd.
That said, the draught beers are poorly maintained - the bar staff could not pull a pint with a proper head - most looking like dish water slops.
This pub also claims to serve the best fish and chips in London - the usual tosh - the fillet looked second rate and was tough in places. The best bit was the mushy peas. However, the knee-length black socks more than made up for this.
OK if you are there for the company, but not if you are there for the beer. Time to clean the pipes out.
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I went into this pub recently - I have to say I was blown away. It was coincidentally the day of the Q Magazine Awards. The pub must have been the closest to Q's offices because the place was filled with pop stars. Kate Nash was sitting in a lurid dress glugging a cider, the Arctic Monkeys were perusing the juke box and assorted members of the 90's Madchester scene were debating over a cigarette outside. It was fantastic to watch as there was a great combination of youthful popstars and the florid-faced 'Suits' who own Q watching on.
The toilets were filthy.
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Allright if your a tourist, drank in worse places.
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I have got to go with anonymous in May 2006. It looks OK but does not feel like a proper pub. Prasieworthy number of ales on tap but they are ordinary at best in terms of their taste and temperature. They also have a nasty habit of not filling the glasses up. Interior looks good and the much discussed tourists probably think that they have visited a genuine British pub but there are so many out there that are a whole lot better than this. Also the prices are disgusting even by Central london standards. Better avoided....
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I can see where Stonch is coming from. I posted a listing on this ages ago, and used this pub tons of times in the 80s and when I go back to London now. It's one of my local stops before I carry on to others.
It did change hands in 2001 from a top geezer who was pissed quite a bit, but won best pub food for that year.
This pub is much better during post work hours where the touristy vibe dissapears. However, during the a'noons (post lunch)it seems to suck in the boring tourists. Spot on Stonch - Its (tourists)like they're forcing themselves to be in a pub because at least they can they have been in one. Odd.
Cheers,
Joseph65
USA
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This is undoubtedly one of the best pubs in London and in one of the best locations. Those comments posted that this is 'the only drinking hole in a 1/2 mile radius' and 'one of the few boozers in Mayfair' are totally unfounded. In the immediate vicinity there is the Punch Bowl on Farm Street and the Red Lion on Waverton Street, a few doors up from the Audley on Mount Street is Fino’s Wine cellar. Still close (approx 3 minute walk) are the Kings Arms in Shepherd's Market and the Guinea on Bruton Place. All are good but none as good as the Audley.
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Not a good pub. As someone below says, it benefits from being one of the few boozers in Mayfair. Tends to attract a few tourists and therefore has a transient feel. Why do visitors to Britain always looks so unhappy and bewildered in pubs?
The place obviously makes an effort to provide rotating real ales which is praiseworthy, and the interior is traditional if not outstanding. It just lacks any sense of pubbiness or atmosphere at all.
anonymous - 5 May 2006 14:04 |
We were in the area playing a gig at the Grosvenor House and, from past experience, we weren't expecting much from a pub in this area - but we really enjoyed this pub.
Good beer (Harviestoun Navigator), hugely over the top ornate Victorian decor (well maintained), we actually got a seat on a lovely late Spring Thursday evening and it wasn't nearly as Hooray Henry as expected.
Full of Americans though, presumably from the embassy nearby; although to be fair to them, they did seem to understand the standing at the bar and getting served thing. To the extent of venting frustration at the inefficient barsteward(esse)s.... Not the worst service, but could do better.
Overall, next Park Lane gig, the band will be back in here. Filed for future use.
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Biggish pub whose main attraction is that it is the only drinking hole in about a 1/2 mile radius - quite a feat for central London! Resonable looking place, a tad hurray-Henryesque - but then again 'tis Mayfair !
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I have mixed feelings about this pub. It is always busy when I have been there (after work), sometimes uncomfortably so, so its popularity is not in doubt. It feels chain pub-ish and tries to be all things to all people, hence lacking in individuality. The bar staff are mostly fine, although some of the younger ones have difficulty pouring a decent pint. Having said that, the beer (my priority) is usually of reasonable quality, and a decent range is served. 6/10.
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Nice decor in a nice part of town. Bit high priced, but not out of line for Mayfair. Good place for a pint or two before moving on.
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This place has the worst bar staff in any that I have visited, waited an age to get served and simply told them to stick it when they finally offered to serve me. Go to the Grosvenor where the barman was polite, efficient and plesent and not so far up his own backside to notice that I was in need of a drink.
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a very grand old pub from what i remember but haven`t visited in years. does anyone remember one of the former managers there, an irish lady called mary (i think!)???? she was there arround 1988/89?
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Another one of my faves (see my postings of other pubs in M'fair). I think when management departed in '02/03 the food went down hill. Still a nice atmosphere. Anyone remember it circa '84/85/86 when the olde manager used to stand there, head up in the air, dressed like a king eyeing up any forbidden looking louts who try to get in. It was a very hardcore hoorah henry pub in those days.
Joseph - 15 Oct 2004 17:59 |
This is a very nice pub, but after three visits I can only conclude that despite the fine selection of ales, they are poorly kept - they tend to be not very fresh, kind of flat and dead. They seem to have Ordinary, Bombardier and Pride always on, + two guest beers. Could do with some tlc.
Owen - 27 May 2004 11:00 |
Its food is under par and over priced. The Salad Has Grit in it, and when you try to complain they simply say it was "because they didnt wash it". Not recommended, personally.
anonymous - 21 May 2004 14:04 |
Nice smart Mayfair pub. Wife and I were impressed. Will visit again
Boothers - 11 Apr 2003 10:39 |
Old Victorian pub circa 1890. Located two blocks ssouth of Grosvenor Square and the U.S. Embassy. Comfortable and attractive interior with high molded ceiling.
Bob F. - 18 Mar 2003 19:05 |
