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Best pub in the whole world. The food is the best you will find anywhere and the bar staff are the most beautiful and talented to ever grace a London drinking establishment. There's a rumour they collectively turned down a lucrative mass modelling contract for the love of serving people. Go go go!
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Exactly what you'd expect from a pub in this area in terms of clientele and decor. The churlish bar staff also leave a lot to be desired, although you can get an occasional friendly one. Two well kept ales on offer here that are usually Wells Bombardier and Jaipur from the Thornbridge Brewery. There are however, occasional guests that replace one or both of the regulars, so worth checking out for that reason alone. Like most places in this area, worth visiting if you're nearby, but don't go out of your way to get here.
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Often overcrowded with surly bar staff, the atmosphere is hardly convivial and its beer selection is mediocre at best. Nevertheless a splendid restaurant upstairs and its pizzas are reasonably priced given the area. A little too trendy for my tastes (the "Princess of Wales" round the corner has a much more relaxed feel) but still worth a pint if you can get the time - or manage to snatch one of the four outside tables in the summer.
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A mate recomended this place because of the food. We had the seafood rissotto and the rib eye steak. The rissotto was stacked with tiger prawns and mussels. The steak was big and juicy served with chunky homemade chips. Had to wait a while to get a seat but well woth the wait.
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It's my local, and it's true what these reviews say. The staff are rude (or beautifully vague) and the pub's not all that. But it can be a laugh on a summer evening. What cracks me up most is how much the very well-heeled locals tread on egg-shells around the manager - it's social valitdation if he knows your name, it would seem.
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I had a good sunday afternoon session here yesterday but that was more to do with who I was with. This is a poncey, pretentious bar full of like minded people. But it did still have a bit of character. Food is pricey and nothing special. Dont know if I would go back.
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Very pretty bar maids, not bad beer selection, prices not too bad - £3ish a pint. OK
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Last time I was there we ordered food and the posh totty behind the bar 'forgot to give the order to the chef'. She asked us if we could wait (another 20 mins in addition to the half hour we'd already waited). I said no - some of us actually have real jobs to go back to, rather than rely on daddy's money...
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I went a few months back. There is a rundown feel to the place and the service was terrible. Carry on walking and goto the Pembroke or if you have the time go into the West End.
anonymous - 25 Feb 2006 16:54 |
Awful place to be avoided at all costs unless you like expensive flat lager, loud boys with daddy`s money, and many many silly `meeja` haircuts.
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Pretty unimpressed...full of silly girls and boys who think that they are 'it' but clearly are not. Nothing special. Things i like about it are the nuts with the oil on them and sitting outside(then i dont need to be inside).
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Dreadful place - can't agree more about the clientele being off putting - to say the least. Rubbish selection of beers. Didn't eat as decided to move on.
anonymous - 28 Dec 2005 16:18 |
i have to say great decor but I have never been in to a pub where the staff actually think they are more important than the customers. Is it a policy when they are hired that they have to pass an arrogant bast*ard rating.
anonymous - 22 Dec 2005 17:01 |
Not quite as bad as the engineer for Hooray Henries but don't go if you don't like the smell of food, particularly fishy food, whilst you enjoy your pint or wine. Can get very noisy.
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Not great. Don't go if you hate the sound of the Primrose Hill brigade talking loudly about their jobs.
That being said, if you're lucky enough to get a table and get nicely settled, it's OK. But worth walking up the road for some proper pubs. There aren't even any old men in there! You've got to have at least one.
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Whar a differance, I was a regular to this pub in the 70"s. The nightly intertainment was one or two ageing strippers and a DJ who was at least 60, but it was also very popular because you could always get a bent M.O.T. from "Beesa" Bill on the pool table.
Where have all the real pubs gone ?
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The kind of place featured in Sunday supplement magazines that we're all supposed to love now. Frequented by guffawing media types to spend the whole time trying to outcool everyone else, or young affluent families with screaming kids, 3 wheeled buggies and more money than class.
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pay by card and the bar staff will assume you're going to tip even if your just getting drinks in (and come over all offended when you don't). call me old fashioned frankly tips are for above average service and at this place it's way way short. which is a shame cos in many respects it could be a nice bar.
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Aweful....bar staff rude and uninviting...worst customer service ive seen for a long time. Lager was as flat as a pancake. Highly unrecommended
anonymous - 16 Jan 2005 17:17 |
Great pub, great food, friendly staff. The clientel are the only off put. I'm sure the staff are only surely from puting up with the likes of 'prim hill' wannabes whinning and whinging about this and that, the only reason being that they like to be waited on hand and foot. You pay for the food at the lansdowne not the service, if you want service you go up to the restraunt, where the service is near perfect.
barry - 20 Oct 2004 17:30 |
went here because it was listed in Time Out's Eating & Drinking Guide for London and wanted an interesting pub supper. Atmosphere of the place is good, and it was nicely busy for a sat night, plus one of the bar guys was amusing and v. competent, but DO NOT GO HERE TO EAT! The food had arrived at our table even before I got back from ordering and paying (decent money) at the bar (i.e. definitely not prepared to order), yet it was still cold, rubbery and pretty tasteless (despite my hotpot having cheese and mustard in it). good for a beerintheevening, I'm sure, but not for it's food.
jill - 6 Oct 2004 16:41 |
Surly, posey, obnoxious & incompetent barstaff who have no clue what the word service means, probably all failed actors.
debbie - 6 Sep 2004 11:00 |
I know it's easy to just sit back and criticise, but it's too easy for the place. Full of people with too much money who think it's trendy to dress like a tramp with idiot trucker caps and nonsense canvas slip-on shoes. I got so annoyed by this place that I started pissing up and down the walls of the toilet. This is something I should be ashamed of, but I don't.
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My fav pub in Primrose Hill
d - 2 Jul 2004 12:38 |
What's with all the tosser comments? I think this pub is great, from the london pride to the bread and olives (makes a change from the real macoys). There's no pleasing some folk.
Duncan - 22 Mar 2004 20:42 |
Full of posers and prats £4.50 for soup most probably a tin of heinz. Walk past this place and got to princess of wales instead.
goonerob - 15 Nov 2003 05:23 |
ate here on a sunday with my sisters and my two young kids. we were all made to feel welcome and the food was good (tad expensive)we ate in the restaurant upstairs which was full of other young families. my probelm was the stairs and toilets. dirty, sticky and smelly. i like rustic charm but dirt and crap toilets are just not on. ps all the tossers sit down stairs. ns
nick - 3 Nov 2003 22:10 |
gastro pub full of gastro people.
duck - 17 Aug 2003 13:29 |
Simply annoying. This is a pub that pretends to be something it is not; Local, friendly, rustic, good value. Unless you're a pack of thirtysomething wannabes who can save a fiver on the splitting of the bill between 15 people. 'orrible 'orrible 'orrible!!!!!
Pintoften - 11 Aug 2003 17:54 |
Food is ok, but yes, it does attract more than it's fare share of t*ssers - mind you, so do most Primrose Hill pubs....
Paul - 11 Aug 2003 16:55 |
food is indeed expensive for a pub but very lovely and totally worth it. And yes, it can be full of tossers, but most of them are very nice to look at, so what are you gonna do?
Angela - 29 Jul 2003 11:35 |
I get as caught up in the loveliness of Primrose Hill as much as the next person, but sometimes something happens that makes me realise just how horrible and sterile and like a 'good living' ad the place really is. The Lansdowne did that to me last.
Horrible place, packed to the rafters with posers wearing sunglasses, indoors (please!) I'm sure the food is lovely. It'd better be at that price! I wasn't about to find out...
Many of you may love this place. But all it did for me is remind me how plastic the whole thing can be sometimes. Sorry.
G - 16 Jun 2003 16:35 |
Excellent pub, great food, good selection of beers and seats outside.
Mark - 9 Jun 2003 18:17 |
