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The Tower Tavern is under new management and the difference is noticeable.Polite and friendly tenant with motivated bar staff. The atmosphere is relaxed and trade is picking up nicely. Good food at sensible prices.
Still work to be done after the damage caused by the last tenant, but the improvement in just a few weeks is impressive.
Don't just take my word for it, visit the pub and judge for yourself. Hopefully, you will be pleasantly surprised.
ajsqs - 10 Apr 2008 13:33 |
Rapidly becoming a good place if you want to be on your own. Pub getting quieter by the week. Partly due to the smoking ban and credit crunch, but mainly because the current tenant does not have a clue. Thankfully, he has handed in his notice and should be gone some time in March. The new tenants, assuming Greene King can actually find someone who relishes a challenge, will have their work cut out trying to turn this place back in to the profit making pub it was six months ago.
ajsqs - 12 Feb 2008 13:36 |
The pub has reopened after being closed for a fortnight for refurbishment. The work is not yet finished, but the difference is noticeable. The lighting is more subdued and the pub has a different feel to it.
Good to have the old local back open again.
ajsqs - 11 Nov 2007 16:11 |
Gary and Shani have moved on and will be missed.
The pub is now under new ownership. First noticeable change is that the cost of the daily special has increased from £5.00 to £6.95. Often cheaper to buy a very similar dish from the standard menu. Sunday lunch has also increased to £7.95.
Other changes noted to date are that the till can be taken away at 22.45 effectively closing the pub early. Hopefully things will get back to normal whenm the new team settle in.
anonymous - 5 Oct 2007 13:40 |
the genius of this place is that it's the only pub in central london where you're pretty much guaranteed a seat for you and your mates, even on a friday evening after payday.
people are put off by the exterior, i guess, but it's absolutely fine inside.
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Excellent pub.Used to work on Oxford street and often came to sit outside and enjoy a pint or two.Good friendly service and ice cold Stella on tap.A bit out of the way but well worth the trip
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A strange looking boozer locked away in the side streets of London. This is possibly the cleanest gaff I have ever been in, service is really briska nd freindly but the beer falls slightly short of what could be a wonderful little find. Maybe just a duff pint??
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Our offices were just round the corner and this place had a terrible reputation. Actually it is a lot better than it looks (60s estate pub). Decent food at lunch time.
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Ok, fair enough Florence. Glad you came on here and defended yourselves. I can assure you I wasn't "cidered" at the time I wrote it...I just didn't find them favourably comparable to some of the Pie, Mash & Liquor I have had in the East End, but that's my personal opinion at the end of the day. I've happily wolfed down quite a few, so they can't be bad can they??!! Overall it's a good pub so I ain't knockin' ya!
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Great pub. Friendly staff, real ale well conditioned and at a good temperature, generous portions of good, tasty food well priced and quickly delivered. The large screens are good for sport but don't intefere if you just want a chat.
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Top pub. Cracking food (the Sunday roast has to be one of the best around), friendly staff and a great place to watch football. And the beer's not bad either!
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The only real ale on offer here is the `hit n miss` GK IPA, where I have tasted better at other venues such as the peerless Duke of York !. A mate had a pie, and can second that it is from Manzes and not from Iceland- if it was a Goddards (greenwich) pie, then we would be talking pie heaven. A venue if you want to watch football in spacious surroundings.
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We feel we have to respond to the comment placed by cidered.
We do advertise Manze's Pie Mash & Liquor and we can assure you we do not state anywhere the pie's are homemade by ourselves. We purchase the pies and liquor from Manze's at Tower Bridge Road. All this can be checked out and verified. Perhaps 'Cidered' was cidered and cannot read correctly. Manzes' pies are made on the site of Manzes.
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Ok kinda place. Nothing to look at from the outside, but fairly decent inside. Good to watch the footy in. Pie, Mash & Liquor served on Fridays - however the pie is v much a Somerfield 99p for 4 job, no matter how much they go on about being homemade. Although it is superb hangover food.
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When I visit London - I always go to the Tower. The food is basic pub grub - but it is good and fresh and cheap. The Guinness is always very well served and competitively priced.
Has a low ceiling so can get a bit smiky if busy, but also has tables outside for a nice sunny day (road is a bit busy but it is central London)
Staff are friendly and attentive, you dont stand waiting for 10 minuted to be served, and they do remember a face.
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A dull, modern Greene King pub.
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Despite the look of it this place is surprisingly good. The food, while not great, is decent enough and comes quickly.
The staff are great, very freindly and with three large screens it's perfect for the football.
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A little local diamond. They got 3 low-res plasmas in last year, alright if the atmosphere's good. Watched the England v France game here in 2004, no trouble even though I was wearing my Gers shirt. Inhabited by real people rather than plastic newmedia Jemimas and Ollies - a rarity in that part of town. Sound.
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Quality hidden away boozer in the middle of media land. Been here several times to watch LFC progress through to the Champions League final. Several plasma screens and cheap(ish) beer makes it a top location for watching the big match. Friendly staff too.
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The Tower Tavern is now under new management. They are also open on Saturday and Sundays and have home cooked food - worth a visit. Nice atmosphere.
shani pollard - 14 Dec 2003 15:52 |
As a journalist working on most national newspapers I find Mr Jimmy Norden's remarks total fabrication. He has clearly never been in the Tower Tavern of an evening where the old man's pub that he mentioned is usually crammed with 30 somethings.
Paul Davis (Journalist). - 24 Jul 2003 23:44 |
friendly staff, beer is reasonable, always some where to sit, bit of an old mans pub but it grows on you.
Jimmy Noden - 23 Apr 2003 13:33 |
