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I went in one Friday lunchtime back in February, and had a nice pint of Bombardier.
Being a country boy, I was rather shocked to pay £3 per pint (pre-Budget!) but this was made up for by me bumping into Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse!
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Do you remember Bill & Maggie nuff said
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I tend to frequent public houses for the pleasure of drinking.....not being made to feel like a working class slave begging at my lordship's table for his scraps of gristle.
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I haven't personally been in here for quite some time, but I was interested to see in the current issue of Q magazine that they took James Blunt for a drink there: £3.20 for a Carling, £12.95 for an "organic cheeseburger with tomato relish and chips."
£16.15 for a pint of cooking lager and a burger and chips? The Wetherspoons experience at more than three times the price. Just a shame the magazine paid rather than the whiney-voiced one himself.
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Our local...
still too busy and too expensive but the food is consistently great and service good given the hectic pace of the place
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I went here recently with a group of friends and was extrememly disappointed.
Whilst polite, the service was slow and the food was uninspired. I ordered a steak rare and it arrived as medium to well done. We also waited an age for our food and to top it all, the very good desert wines that we ordered arrived in standard pub glasses.
The pub also insisted on adding service charge to the bill. I suspect that this place has taken its eye off the ball and seems to be existing on its past reputation and prime location in Primrose Hill. For the £60 per head that we paid I can think of plenty of better places to eat in London. Actually, I can think of plenty of better places to eat for around a third of that price.
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Visited this for the first time on Sunday lunchtime. It struck me as about as near a restaurant as you can get in a pub - the food was very good indeed and my cod and my wife's burger both went down a treat. It is expensive, but not unreasonably so given the quality of the food. I queued for our drinks initially but thereafter it was table service, which was good. The flip side, though, is that this is not really a pub in the sense of being somewhere to go to drink. Only two real ales by my count - Bombardier and Hook Norton; I had a pint of the latter and it wasn't great. So, great for a bite to eat, but remember - it's not really a pub.
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Cramped indoors but an enjoyable beer garden round the back (when the weather is good that is). The staff have never been unfriendly to me (yet) but the beer is certainly overpriced. £4 for Erdinger Weissbier or an organic cider - a little steep in my books.
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I recently enjoyed a steak here. Good thing too, because it cost almost £20. I could have had 20 hamburgers off the 99p menu at McDonalds (nearby, in Camden) and still had change for 15 minutes on the meter. That's not the point though, is it.
You see, Primrose Hill is an expensive place to live. By default, the pubs have the same 'don't care' attitude as the clientele - which kind of makes an evening observing the relationship between pub and customer like watching a divorce proceeding in progress.
Fancy a pint at the Kravmer vs Kramer?
No thanks.
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Visited here with friends at 1.30-ish in the afternoon. I've never waited to get served for so long at a completely empty bar, particularly without a 'sorry to keep you waiting' from the barman who was preparing drinks for the restaurant. When I was eventually served, the barman was ungracious, with no pleases or thank-yous, and he had a face like thunder.
I've previously visited the restaurant here, where the food is OK, but hugely over-priced, and again, service is not friendly in the least. The Engineer is a really beautiful pub in a lovely location, it's just a shame that the service is so unbearably awful.
anonymous - 10 Nov 2006 10:52 |
A friend had her 30th birthday here (a party of 12). My friend's sister had bought a really nice cake but the manager refused to serve it - saying it was not policy. We had already ordered two courses, plenty of drinks and offered to all buy ice cream and coffees but she point blank refused, changing her mind and saying that as we had the table all night, she wouldn't allow us to have the cake! When we refused to pay the service charge, she simply shrugged her shoulders and said "well it's the staff that suffer not the business" (we had already given the excellent waitress the money in her hand).
I wrote a letter to the owners but heard nothing back. Clearly customer satisfaction is of no concern
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the restaurant is good; but dont go just for a pint as there's no room.
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i quite like this place. certainly not full of the idiots that the Lansdowne attracts! Food not that special believe it or not! Service always pretty friendly. can take a little too long though. garden nice if you can get a seat!
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I totally concur with the previous four reviewers. Definitiely more gastro than pub.
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This place is a restaurant, not a pub. Therefore if you're just in there for a drink you always feel guilty that you're getting in the way of people tring to eat their £10 burgers. If you don't like getting evil stares from all the white wine-drinking Hooray Henries for drinking beer, smoking or swearing or even talking about normal things then steer well clear. Attractive garden but not worth going for that alone.
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Terrible service for drinks. But it's famous as a gastropub, not really one to come for drinking.
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yeah you're right mate,..its shite in here,.."Engineer for show,...elsewhere for a pro"
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One of those most obnoxious and pretentious places I have ever had the misfortune to visit. Not really a pub, more a bar that attracts the usual character from that particular part of North London. Sometimes more staff than punters - and still takes an age to get a drink. Dont go if you like a good pint of Ale, go if you are interested in overpriced fish finger salads and beer that goes someway down the list of priorities.
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