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Good pub excellent beer whith good service, but the food is clerly pepared by the finest microwaves money can buy, and disgusting loos.
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Wow - sounds like itpubgirl is proudly sponsored by Ye Olde Cock Tavern!!
But seriously, this is a top pub having undergone a recent refurb. Lots of olde worlde charm, original features and very pleasant staff. A good choice of draught beers and very reliable food with plenty of good old pub grub as well as fresh sandwiches, salads etc served quickly at the correct temperature. A nice change from the generally more fusty old pubs on Fleet Street.
We had a work 'do' here not so long ago and were really impressed - the manager even put a playlist on with our receptionist's favourite tracks (more fool him)!
Pleasingly, they also have a proper wine list with some more interesting choices than the ubiquitous pinot grigio and merlot. It's a hit with our lot... 8/10 easily.
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An awesome pub. The staff are fantastic. So efficient, friendly and well presented. Management are also absolutly brill!
The food was fast and well presented. Kudos to the chef. I most definatly will be going back for my lunch and an evening drink.
Also i agree with the comment below. Best pub on Fleet Street :)
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Great pub. Staff are lovely and really attentive. Manager used to run the Devereux and (as he did there) makes all the customers feel like old friends. More pubs should have this attitude. Food is a 'safe bet', not gastro stuff but good quality, hot, speedily served pub grub (and salads too).
Looks like the comments about the ales have been taken on board too because there seems to be a better selection of guest ales.
Pubs have to branch out now to stay above water, think what the effect of the smoking ban etc must have been. I have seen the poker in there and I thought it looked great. Very novel and they keep themselves to a separate function area anyway.
The best pub on Fleet Street by a mile...
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Great pub. Staff are lovely and really attentive. Manager used to run the Devereux and (as he did there) makes all the customers feel like old friends. More pubs should have this attitude. Food is a 'safe bet', not gastro stuff but good quality, hot, speedily served pub grub (and salads too).
Looks like the comments about the ales have been taken on board too because there seems to be a better selection of guest ales.
Pubs have to branch out now to stay above water, think what the effect of the smoking ban etc must have been. I have seen the poker in there and I thought it looked great. Very novel and they keep themselves to a separate function area anyway.
The best pub on Fleet Street by a mile...
anonymous - 21 Oct 2007 22:04 |
I would have to agree, a venue that flatters to deceive.
Was in there again at lunchtime and noticed ( a further ,) drop in quality.
6 handpumps with only 3 in use (Greene ing IPA, Youngs Ord and Adnams Broadside, none of which were on decent form,) and by the number of glasses placed over the taps, a limited selection of fizzy beers. A selection of staff whose indolence bordered on fascinating and a manager discussing loudly how much they could bump up the price of the Xmas menu.
All in all a shadow of its former glory (much missed.)
Oh and as I have no desire to play poker, the prominent oushing of what in the old days would have been known as a card school is also a bit grating!
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The Cock Tavern looks fantastic from outside, like it doesn’t belong on Fleet Street. It is apparently on the site of a pub that was originally shut down during the plague and I’m not sure that it ever recovered as it was dead in there.
Both of the barmaids were very friendly, but it didn’t really make up for the lager selection (Fosters or Kronenberg) or the lack of atmosphere.
Overall I was pretty disappointed as the exterior of the pub caught my imagination and I felt robbed upon entering.
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Shame about the beer. I wonder whether the landlady (Ginella) has gone? I popped in there for a swift one mid-afternoon in the summer, and ended up spending some while chatting to Ginella who was very enthusiastic about the beer. To my shame I can't remember what beer I drank, but it was unusual and superb. And ginella gave me a bottle of Young's Kew Brew to take home. Must pop in soon to see what it's like now.
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Now open again, (Can't see much change inside, you have to wonder why it took so long!)
But in the scheme of things BIG disappointment as the ale range has gone fron a good selection with an imaginative guest ale policy, to the usual dull range of london Pride and the GK standards.
Pity, as one of the reasons to go here was to see what beers thay had on.
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Appears to be shut for a refurb (yet another place that didn't look as if it needed one.)
Lets hope things don't change too drastically.
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Good food, friendly staff, handy location (for me). Downstairs is a bit on the dark side but upstairs is light and airy. Food is delivered fairly quickly too. No complaints.
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Irrepressible, indefatigable, good natured landlady and staff. Sadly the positive vibe is confined to that side of the bar. There is a good variety of guest beers.
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What a disappointment. Looked great on the outside but the interior was far to modern and wrong.Piped music though quite a classy selection.For some reason I have yet to fathom I decided to eat there and had a bog standard pie. Why didnt I wait to eat at one of the pubs I went to later; all better in price and atmosphere.And another problem I seem to encounter.Although I have a Northern accent it is not too strong. Surely HALF and PINT are different phonetically if one listens.
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Staff always show their true colours writing about their own pubs in such a way. Quite a bland place, verging on rubbish inside. Possibly the worst pub in the area! Looks ok from the outside, which is where I recommend people stay!
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I admit to being bias (working for ye olde cock tavern), although i do disagree with the review above. I am currently doing a degree and work at ye olde cock so I can afford rent etc. Practically all the members of staff at the pub are studying for degrees or have them and just use the work to pay morgages etc. [I do not see any of us as being clueless]. Grumy goons? - Only when someone lacks the ability to say please and thank you when they are intoxicated. The Cheshire Cheese is a famous fleet st. pub and therefore packed with tourists, and the Old Bank of England has nice managers but awful staff. If you want a real taste of what is remaining of after work Fleet St. Ye Olde Cock is the place to be.
PS Agnes - we do take cards, the pool room is open untill 11.20 like the rest of the pub - we're you that drunk you don't remember properly? lol
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The landlady is a gem, but the pub itself a nightmare. Badly laid out, badly decorated, and a machine that turns the music up at 6.18 PM just as the clientele are trying to talk to each other.
Mark pulled up over average only through efforts of aforementioned landlady.
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And what a load of old cock it is too! Upstairs shuts early, the pool table shuts even earlier, the tills don't take cards and the staff are clueless grumpy goons. Don't just avoid going in this pub, actively run past it very quickly screaming all the way. After all the Cheshire Cheese and the Old Bank of England are far far better and only a short scream away.
Agnes - 14 Jan 2004 11:09 |
