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Has anyone caught the lesbian act behind the counter in the edt. If i were you i wouldn't-ugh
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four pound fifty for a bottle of Kopparberg..... your having a bubble.
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Haven't been there since the cabaret moved out. Remember when it was so rough you didn't dare go downstairs. One night there were bouncers on teh door and they were only letting locals in - we naturally thought it was dog fighting or bare knuckle fighting. A relief that it was a 70s disco! Ah those were the days.
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Not a bad pub on the whole but I dont think it quite competes with the Bishop just further up the road... completely disagree with the slating took here. But to be honest...
"They also don’t serve any alcopops – so if you’re a beer drinker who after a few pints, likes to wind down later in the evening..."
Nuff said really!
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I disagree with the below message. the EDT is without doubt one of THE finest establishments in the whole country, it is a wonderful, wonderful place. Everything about it is superb, it is a JOY to come here, an absolute thrill.
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I used to like this place but I went here on a Friday nite 2 weeks ago and it was dead as a dossers vest (about 5 people in there all evening). About the worst atmosphere I’ve seen in a pub on a Friday night anywhere. The décor is so dark and dingy too (especially by the big screen) why don’t they brighten it up a bit?
Let's have a happy hour, anything to liven it up a bit! Even when punters use it for the football matches they all dart out of the place straight afterwards.
They also don’t serve any alcopops – so if you’re a beer drinker who after a few pints, likes to wind down later in the evening, you'll have to switch to shorts or lump beer all night. And as for the grub (I dunno if it’s just the pizza that’s bad), but avoid the pizza at all costs – it was worse than crap. Whatever yellow stuff was on top, it wasn’t cheese – they probably grill their own phlegm or something!
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Nice pub, can get quite hectic if there are any sport events on but if you are looking to watch a game this is a good place to go.
Recently ate here as well which was really nice. The bar staff are sometimes a bit slow but other than that generally good.
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came in here with som,e fiends last week we sat on, the outside and smoked inside it 's quite big and spasoius with lot' s of peopele/ upstairs is a caffay but we dident go upstairs it has no pool table or dart-bored and coudnt find the duke-box ^ some people her are funny
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Came here at the weekend, sat outside and drank some delicious organic ale... I will be back.
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Live about 2 minutes from pub and is not bad i pass 3 pubs 2 get to this one and live oppiste one however none of them feel like pubs. The EDT Is a good pub have met loads of nice people in there. and as im gay i must say (all though not to loudly case they find out!) that sum of the barmen down there r propa fit! even though the ones i fancy r not gay! least i can look. often take the papper down there after work however dont go in there much at weekends cuz its to bizzy and near home! i like to go more central london at weekends. but not bad for a few pints after work
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Last time i was there, I ordered a stella and it was totally 100% flat. i told the barman so he poured me another absolutely flat one. I told him the pump or the barrel must be knackered and to try a different pump. He said 'it still tastes the same, what difference does it make??' and walked off. Thankfully a girl working behind the bar came over to me and said, 'your right, thats totally flat, sorry about that' and poured me one from the other pump on the other side of the bar which was absolutely fine. Just an example of the regard in which this pub holds it clientèle.
pejpm - 14 Jan 2007 21:08 |
What a great pub! am new to the area and delighted to have the EDT on my doorstep. Have had several lovely evenings out and the restaurant is quality too. I find the staff very friendly and helpfull and thoroughly deserving of a good review. Good standard and selection of beer and I like the furnishings, has a nicer feeling than the other pubs along the road.
anonymous - 12 Dec 2006 13:47 |
Pub fine - restaurant a disappointment. Food took an age to arrive and even the olives and bread offered as compensation for the delay took at least 10 minutes to arrive and that was only after reminding the waitress. Food ok but served on stone cold plates so had to be eaten at break neck speed. Although there is a bar upstairs they do not have all drinks available so if you want something from downstairs you have to go and get it yourself.
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I think this pub is pretty dire and devoid of atmosphere. The restaurant upstair though is excellent. The food is mouthwatering, the service is good, the embiance is inviting, the house red is highly recommended. I rate it highly but only because of the restaurant.
anonymous - 25 Nov 2006 15:49 |
This place is devoid of any craic or character. I need GCSE languages to order a pint. Beer is sub standard. Most people who go here just can't be bothered to walk any further to another bar.
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think some of the comments here are pretty harsh, there have been some changes but I think they are for the best- the atmosphere is really good now and the food is definately 'good pub food' if not haute cuisine. the place is more like a proper local pub now but without being scary- had a lovely evening there the other week.
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I don't actually use the pub but last week I went to the restaurant upstairs and the food and service was excellent. Highly recommended.
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Went here recently and was quite dissapointed. I know that it used to have a good rep, but now it seems a bit dreary. I had a carling there which I wouldn't serve to a soap dodger. Shame really, use to be a premier boozer
Chopper
anonymous - 17 Aug 2006 16:05 |
Posting as I particularly enjoyed some of the more recent comments. Not scoring as my experiences are out of date. When I went regularly to the Cabaret in the early 90s downstairs was a rough old place. Believe it was a Milwall pub at the time so care needed on a Saturday! Main memory is when there were bouncers on the door and a particularly rough crowd. Was expecting bare knuckle or dog fighting but it was actually a 70's disco (obviously owners were very selective on who was let in). This is a great web-site but shame that scoring cannot start a fresh when there is a major shift as clearly score for this pub reflects older times. Similarly I encourage readers to enter a zero for the Bricklayers in Sydenham to reflect how awful this place has become and overide the previous high score.
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I just voted "10", not because it is a 10 but because currently this is quite unkindly and inaccurately rated as the worst pub in East Dulwich, and it's not as if there isn't some stiff competition for the title. Hence I thought I would make a small contribution to raising the average.
This is where it all started in East Dulwich when all you c***s where still living in Clapham or wherever you came from. In fact, before then, when you were all still at "uni".
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Like the new decor from a few months back, a bit more lady friendly in the bar on the right. Still great for the footy. Not that impressed with the lagers or the prices. Why don't they sell basic food downstairs, as well as the restaraunt upstairs. Random DJ's at weekend, some good, (Loved DJ Crash & Burn), some naff. Music is sometimes so loud around the side with the mosaic floor, that you can't have a conversation. Friendly manager allowed up to take the outside chairs in for the footy. Have recently installed chalk boards in the mens toilets for any profound thoughts, most of which end up being profane, (and all over the walls).
Unlike most of the bars East Dulwich, this one doesn't seem to be pretentious. Sure the Guardian crowd are here, but so are the chavs, the local shop keepers and the odd pensioner.
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Visited last night. Interesting decor - a little bit Morroccan with "stylish" dim lighting. Apparently it's great for footy matches with a few big screens. Didn't get much of a look at the beers on tap, but I got the feeling it's more of a lager place. Nice enough - I'd visit again.
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I went in on a Sunday lunch time a few weeks back and they were playing mothership connection by parliament on the stereo. Thats worth at last a ten in my book
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I quite enjoy this bar actually, even if some people seem to dislike the foreign bar staff. As far as I'm concerned, south east London could do with a few more foreigners to spice up the usual drab mix, and maybe it will encourage us to learn to order drinks in a few new languages ;-)
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i've lived here for seven years, when i came here the edt was the most prominant bar in the area.........but unfortunatly this has changed. WHAT HAS HAPPENNED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the staff here were a good craic because they knew how to have a craic. THIS PLACE HAS GONE DOWN HILL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I used to come to EDT quite often,as my friends used to go there. I went overseas for a month. When I came back and wanted to go to EDT for a drink,I walked in and didn't recognise anybody! The whole atmosphere had changed. It definitley didn't feel like the EDT I once knew. This was in January. I haven't been back since,despite the fact that I live just down the road. I don't see myself going back to be quite honest!
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I have been a local in edt for many years but i must say that the new decor looked promising, but then all of a sudden all the nice staff i saw all the time have been replaced with non english speaking staff that i have to repeat my drink orders over and over. It seems cold and uninviting now and is my least favourite bar in the whole of east dulwich.
anonymous - 23 Mar 2006 17:23 |
I am very happy to say that the EDT is on the up again! I think the bar staff are nice and polite - maybe you should smile at them a bit and dare I say it - buy them a drink????
It's great to see the EDT bouncing back - the new decorations are great! My only complaint is footy in both bars! Have one where we can watch footy when the wife is at home, and one where we can talk to her when she's out with us!
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nice pub, does what it says on the tin really. Shows live footie, beer is good and well cared for, staff are generally friendly and there is no trouble there from my experience.
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Has had a bit of a refit. Its not bad but the staff are pretty poor. They make you feel as if they are honouring you by serving you rather than thats what they are employed to do.
anonymous - 6 Jan 2006 11:58 |
too big, too much football... too little of atmosphere.
Not convinced. Maybe i should go again, in case i#m wrong.
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a mecca for baby-foot playing fin-haired mugs. awful place.... not often i'd say this but i honestly think it'd be improved if they gastroed it up. yea i know there's a restaurant upstairs... who's idea was it by the way to rip out a great comedy club and whack in a half-arsed restaurant? gastro it up downstairs, use the baby-foot as a dishwasher and you'd be back on track EDT
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This pub/bar has gone full circle again! Generally its not a bad place to go but for the last few years the managemtn seem very keen to get all the old locals out and make way for all the young trendies with the big city sallaries! Fair enough things move on but however i know of people being shuntered out of this bar for no apparant reason but yet they continue to serve the most disgusting foul mouthed northerner i have ever had the displeasure of having to listen to. "F" this "F" that... not to mention the C word! He certianly does not create a good impression for the bar and the management NEVER pull him up on his language, I personally have to leave the pub when around! I Think its about time they got rid of all the snotty nosed staff and get someone else in who doesnt have 2 sets of rules! It would also appear that Alli the ashtray is back in town. Now thats reason enough not to venture in the EDT, he probaby got the push from his last place as this guy is not at all popular with the locals. You go in there for a pint after work and all you get are the miseral bar maids bitching about each other! Yaaaaawwwwnn The beer is alway flat! the music is always monotonus and why bother having Sky sports if they look at you in disgust if you ask them if they are going to show the football? They all haggle together in a corner having their late note staff drink and you can see that they just want veryone to bugger off home and leave em to it! Dont work in a bloodiny pub if you cant be sociable! Jeeezzz...who does the hiring of staff in that place? I wasnt a big fan of the Bishop at first but over the last few months has grown on me so thats gunna be my new local!!
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This pub's a bit crap! Overpriced too!
Restaurant upstair's nice!
I used to like it and once went in there when it was very dark and I could not see anything but now I don't like it anymore!
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Went to the EDT to watch the Ashes in what we considered to be convivial; albeit slight staid surroundings after a tough weeks work. Looking forward to my first visit. However, read on. Asked “ Is food available @ the bar?” This is Saturday afternoon and there is a Test Match on. “No.”(Snotty monotone BTW) “The restaurant is not open until this evening.” Fair enough. Then the Manager/Barman comes over to us where we were sat, and starts ranting that we have got our feet on the (wooden) seats. One of our party had his leg draped across the corner of a seat of a chair. No one could see, we were in the corner minding our own business. Honest to God. “Get your feet down!” Volume rising. I came back from the bar and asked what was up. Having lashed out £8.80 on 2 pints of Hooegaarden and 3 bags of crisps, I took exception to my mates being bullied and spoken to like a piece of shit, and said as much. Big mistake-Old paranoid man starts coming back and leering @ us EVERY TWO to THREE MINUTES. Fucking prick. Ugly bastard too. So we adjourned for a burger, which we were eating in the street, (chavvy I granted) but we were starving. The bird behind the jump rushes outside quicker than an Olympic sprinter, steams into us, tries to grab my cheeseburger, chucks £2.50 @ me and screams “No hot food outside!” “There’s money for your drink.” Us lowering the tone? Appalling attitude. Cleared off in disgust-had left fags & lighter inside. Went back to retrieve them. Another torrent of abuse and paranoia. Were I the owner of the place I’d personally sack the lot of you. Overpriced, boring (wooden floors/pale walls….yawn) and with singularly offensive staff. Are they all on something? If you drink in here you want your head testing. I’ve worked all over Europe and have NEVER been spoken to. On departure, the ugly bint behind the bar screams “We won’t miss you!” Totally horrible, and genuinely upsetting too.
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I really like this place. It feels like a home from home.
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i was going to write a constructive review of this boozer but even thinking about the gaff has left me with an overwhelming feeling of lethargy...
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Not a bad pub. Once it was THE trendy pub on the street, but thank goodness this has changed with the birth of the Bishop etc. Lacks atmosphere alot of the time, adn could do with a food menu to spice it up a bit. Beautiful flowers always there to admire however! All in all a bit lame though to be honest. And i will take below persons advice and a) stay in my own pub, and b) rubbish this one on the internet! Cheers!
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I too have noticed that when i rate a pub as bad, that people snipe back and assume that im an ex member of staff! people not allowed an opinion anymore? Ridiculous!
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I have noticed that whenever anyone makes any negative comments about any of the pubs on this site the comments are considered to be made by competitors of ex employees!!!!
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We actually got thrown out of this pub for singing Happy Birthday!!! Even though others joined in and we werent offending anyone we were all told to leave, it really was quite unbelievable especially considering the price of the drinks!!!. The doorman barred us. Having never been barred from a pub in 20 years it came as quite a shock!!!
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i actually think some of the comments below are unfair - and seem like they were posted by jealous competetors in the area. as it is my local i think i should just say it is wonderful. the atmosphere is great and drinks are exactly what you want from a pub - also i went there last saturday night and they had a wonderful woman DJing rock n roll - not dance music - so what are you all talking about? perhaps you should stay at your own pubs than come here or worse rubbish it on the internet...
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Overated sullen dump this,..overpriced as mentioned and the decor in the TV section reminds me of a converted warehouse I went to on a stag do in Prague that calls itself "Rocky O'Reillys",...had the feel of a kids playroom - brightly lit with balsa wood panels on the walls and a table football in the corner,..bogs were directly under the (vaguely lit) big screen on the main wall...Can't remember whether they had a fruity or not,.. but if they did,..rest assured that i woulda been on it, whilst finishing my solitary pint.....
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considering the local competition with pubs and bars like inside 72, liquorice and the clockhouse.. it's always fairly packed out. however, this doesn't mean it's a lively, buzzing, place for a friday or saturday night. a pretty dull atmosphere... especially compared to all the other pubs in the area. definitely missing something. no longer have the comedy club. has potential to be done up... how about some nauticalia?! some sort of theme or character to liven up the look of the place... cos the people that go there definitely reflect the dull interior
anonymous - 14 Feb 2005 20:47 |
Ive found the bar staff to be surly and the drinks quality to be really hit and miss especially some of the draught lagers.Expensive for the location
lnterior drab and depressing but overall it could be a good bar. In need of something.
anno - 9 Nov 2004 00:05 |
some of the staff seem less than happy to be serving you, quite dull, in summer nice view of the roundabout from the benches outside. much better local offerings, shame as nice venue
rory - 6 Nov 2004 17:29 |
this pub shows the football and is easy to meet people in if the`re not local. so that`s the good stuff out the way. staff turn over is high. except one, they are mostly boody miserable too. expensive considering the bland boring atmosphere. david`s right about the claphamites.....
swifty - 2 Nov 2004 15:05 |
Loads of floor space. Good place, a bit pricy though.
Anna - 21 Sep 2004 19:54 |
Just hate this place, apart from it being a good place to watch football, I can think of little to recommend it. The bar staff are fast but unfriendly, and it has a real dodgy atmosphere. OK if you want to try your luck before the Redstar, otherwise don't bother.
Cassius - 5 Jun 2004 16:59 |
Its a nice place, not very rough at all - lots of arty types. If you don't like boho/funny hat wearing types or paying about £3-£4 a beer then nice venue and atmosphere.
Jack - 20 May 2004 16:31 |
I agree with Dave about the bitter. If you are only going to have one on, amke sure its it good quality. I have often found it to be past its best.
thomas - 19 Feb 2004 14:46 |
As a person who used to drink regularly in the pub, I must admit I’m surprised with the recent comments regarding the staff being rude and arrogant, and totally surprised about the Homo Phobic issue. (Especially as the some of the staff are gay)
The pub to me has always been busy and popular. The staff to me seem friendly and efficient, unless some thing has drastically happened to the pub in the last 4 months I haven’t been in there.
Must admit there are reasons why I don’t regularly go are,
A) Bouncers on door seem to think they run the place. (Anyone actually told them that it’s not a proper job to be proud off)
B) Only one real ale in the place. (I know I’m sad, but larger to me has no taste after 2 beers)
C) Music is generally load and repetitive. (Any chance of a slight change in order or even record list.)
D) New people moving to East Dulwich seem to think that it’s Clapham. (No its not, if you want to drink in a Clapham type pub, jump on the No 37 Bus and go, but don’t turn Dulwich into a Circus?)
Well does anyone else agree with my comments, please respond?
David - 16 Feb 2004 15:13 |
Someone always takes my seat by the fire. Bastards.
Maureen Hooper - 8 Jan 2004 13:57 |
Went in there recently and was surprised at the way my friends and I were treated. To say it is a rough, racist, homophobic pub would be an understatement. We felt as if we were doing something wrong when we asked for drinks. We decided to leave before the locals jumped us, as they looked to be wanting to do. Never have I BEEN SO GLAD TO LEAVE A PUB in my life. All that was missing from the pub were pillow cases on the locals heads. One to avoid if you have friends who are supposedly "NOT BRITISH". One to avoid at all costs!
Anonymous - 3 Jan 2004 14:38 |
It was a much better pub when they had the comedy club upstairs
jeff - 2 Jan 2004 13:34 |
'Ali the ashtray' is a pathetic excuse for a bar man or what ever he thinks he is, I find him and the rest of the staff rude and arrogant, and the bar itself is not so great. come guys sort yourself out
robert - 3 Dec 2003 00:28 |
Wouldn't say its the best pub in Southwark but its ok. Tries to hard to be clapham pub.
Its good for the football, but could improve on the real ale frtont.
thomas - 16 Nov 2003 15:17 |
The EDT is probably the finest pub in Southwark and with the best and friendliest bar staff.The Hamlet(Vale now)is all hype and not a patch on EDT.
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Would have to say its the best pub in Southwark and as the best staff around.
dan - 1 Sep 2003 20:33 |
A decent enough pub but with appaling accoustics. Maybe I'm just getting old but its impossible to hear a conversation at a normal level over the roar of backgound noise bouncing off the tiled floor.
Bodge - 8 Aug 2003 11:13 |
This pub is west london gastropub...without the gastro. Would be one of London's finest if it served decent (or indeed any) food enabling you to spend all Sunday there behind your broadsheet. Clientele's spiritual home is Chiswick. Decent ambience pretty much all the time.
TNT - 14 Jul 2003 15:45 |
The EDT was a revelation to me. The range of clientel was an eye-opener. I drank next to the fattest cattle rustling Mississipi swine I have ever come across. And then there was Danny Bell who started chatting me up and proceded to faint in front of my eyes, banging his head on the way down. I suppose that was a sign of how good the drinks are!
Jenn - 29 May 2003 13:21 |
This here place is about as fine a goddamn drinking establishment as you'll find in the state o' Southwark. Bottles o' beer so smooth you could rub your ass on 'em and barmaids so darn pretty I damn near got a stiffy the second I walked through those doors. If you want a beer that ain't served by no toothless crone and ain't part o' some goddamn awful chain I suggest you visit this place-tell 'em Big Bob sent you.
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