Three Crowns, Stoke Newingtonback to pub details please note - reviews on this site are purely the opinion of site visitors, so don't take them too seriously.
It's very pleasant, and the staff are really nice. I've chatted away for quite a while with one of them, and would confess to having been reasonably enchanted. Leather armchairs are always a plus, and the beer is very good. Prices on the high side, though. Haven't eaten here.
wsjm: I don't feel at all that fatpav gives the impression of being associated with the Crowns, but is responding to some pretty over-broad criticism, from someone clearly disgruntled. I will admit to finding his post combative, though, and am disappointed in both users for holding an argument on the board. Yes, I'm afraid you're both guilty of that. However, I find your post, wcjm, offensive, and borderline illiterate. You say nothing of substance, and use crude insults. You are in no position to pass comment on anybody else's postings.
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i think this pub sucks, it sucks real bad. i went there the othere day there was no atmosphere and its just like every pub that thinks its special but its not. that fatpav obviously works there, he's obviously the manager haha, what an idoit.
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heh heh. Ben wren....done it again. thanks for the whine wee man ;)
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The beer doesn't cost £4 a bottle, badger 13. Anyway, if you rate the Swan and the Flying Scotsman then this place is probably not for you!
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It seems you think that by calling it whinging, you can delegitimise my complaint. fatpav, everyone reading this can see through your hollow defence of this sorry excuse for a pub. just stop talking now before you make yourelf look even more pathetic.
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Thank you Ben Wren for illustrating my point so beautifully. you whinge in person better than I could ever caricature.
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I like his place. good to eat somewhere when the food is correctly sourced and served - burger at the white hart anyone? Good atmosphere and friendly service. well worth checking out.
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way overpriced gastro dive.
full of people willing to pay £4 for a bottle of lager. give me a decent boozer anyday, ill be off to the swan.
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This boozer has seen more name changes of late than Dierdre Barlow, and this must be its worst incarnation yet. No atmosphere, "gastropub" stylings (ugh), and full of people who wouldn't know a decent pub if it landed on them. Ben-Wren, you're better off out of it.
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This could be a good pub if the proprietors re-thought the one-size-fits-all theme they've applied to a number of pubs around Stokey.
The pub is sadly let down by the layout, the acoustics, the battered-to-the-point-of-unuseable furniture and the terrible bland DJ-bar soundtrack.
It's not the kind of place that I'd really look forward to spending an evening eating or drinking.
Get better furniture, better music, a better layout and a better menu and they might be onto something.
derms - 17 Dec 2007 22:21 |
In response to fatpav: Yes it is a wee shame, and also extremely annoying.
You say that if the doorman didn't let me in he must have had a very good reason. Well if he did have a legitimate reason, why did he lie and tell us that there was a private party on? I'm sorry that you don't have the mental capacity to understand what i've written about this pub - Clearly if he'd told me straight away that the age limit was 25, i'd have accepted that and gone elsewhere. What I object to is being lied to, and in my book that's fairly jutifiable.
I was really polite to the doorman, and I did not as you say "berate him when he asked for ID", EVEN THOUGH he smirked as he asked for it (after lying to my face). However, when he refused to explain why he didn't just say the age limit was 25 in the first place, i may have gotten pissed off, but i'm sure anyone reading this will understand why. Even you, with your frankly creepy desire to defend this pub (what, were you conceived in the toilets there or something?), cannot tell me you'd be happy if a doorman lied to your face and turned you away?
There's pretty much nothing worse you could reasonably expect to experience from someone who is supposed to be providing a service to the general public than have them lie, espescially when there is absolutely no good reason for it. The pub may have the right to not let me in (even with NO good reason, as was the case), but I ALSO have the right to tell whoever I want that they should AVOID THIS PUB, and I think most people would agree that it is far less petty than your pathetic doorman feeding lies to decent customers just because he can. Personally, it seems obvious that any place that needs a half-witted loser to stand up for it should be avoided.
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In response to Ben_Wren. Whilst it is a wee shame that you were not allowed in the pub on that particular night it really isn't something you should be all that annoyed about. Every licensed premises has the right to refuse entry to anyone for any reason they like. If you are refused entry by a doorman (the legal represenative of the bar) then it is probably for a very good reason. Perhaps next time you should bring ID and maybe not berate the doorstaff when you are asked for it. Simply accepting the decision in a calm and adult fashion gives you much more chance of being allowed entry at a later date. Also, telling people not to go to a place because you couldn't get in is a bit petty don't you think? Personally, any place that refuses entry to self-righteous whingers is alright by me!!
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I had a very bad experience at this pub.
I went a couple of months ago, and was told by the 40-something african bouncer that there was a private party inside, so we could not come in. Seeing the pubgoers through the window however, it looked like everyone was sitting in small groups, and while my friend and I were standing at the door, the doorman let two people in, seemingly without any 'invite' or other check. After confronting him about this, we were told that it was actually over-25s only, and were asked to provide ID, reluctantly admitting that there was no private party after all.
Both being 23 years old, neither of us could provide this ID, but when our 21 year old friend arrived, we asked him to attempt to go in to see if he was challenged. He got in, no questions asked. When we asked the bouncer why he had let our younger friend in but not us, he told us he 'thought he was already in and had gone out to get some cash from the machine'.
At this point, we asked to see the manager, as we did not believe anything this guy was telling us. The bouncer refused to get the manager, or anyone else to confirm or deny his reasons for not letting us in. In desperation to prove a point, we asked two very kind ladies on their entering the pub if they would mind getting the manager for us. They obliged, and the english 30-something manager (we presumed) came out, and before he got to us the bouncer went just inside and had a quiet word with him, he then came out and told us it was indeed over-25s only. He was, dare I say, smug, and offered no apology.
We were not sure if we were still being deceived and dismissed, or whether it was just the bouncer who had lied to us. Either way, we had to move on. I had in fact been in the pub twice previously to this (since becoming the Three Crowns), but as you might expect have not been back since, except once about a week later when I went in and asked a barman what the age limit was - he didn't know, but guessed 21, then went away to check with someone, then came back to say it was 25. This almost confirmed the truth of this for me, except that I saw that the same manager was in that day, which gave me a small seed of doubt, although maybe that's a bit paranoid.
The long and short of it is, the bouncer clearly lied to us, for no reason that we can tell. He must not have liked the look of us, even though we were respectably dressed and polite. The pub has no signs stating its policy on minimum age, and the staff didn't even seem too sure. It seems to me that they will let anyone in, but reserve this high minimum age 'policy' as an excuse to refuse entry to those younger clientele that they do not want in their pub.
A really horrible and needless event, far more off-putting than any bad service I have experienced elsewhere. Please avoid this pub if you can, treatment like this deserves a bit of a repercussion for the guilty party. Thank you for reading.
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Popped in here last Sunday and had the roast dinner, for £12.50. I found it to be of small proportions with the "Roast potatoes" clearly deep-fried and overdone.
When my girlfriend ordered a Bloody Mary we found there to be greenfly in the celery, when I informed a waitress she told be that the salad had been washed but the greenfly must have "flown in" afterwards, highly unusual!
All in all an overpriced, over rated shame.
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Food is too expensive. Do not even think about drinking here if you have not spent £800 on thick rim spectacles.
anonymous - 24 Apr 2007 12:57 |
I like it. Well decorated and lit. People who read newspapers in pubs take up whole tables. The whole point of the pub is to talk to your friends and make new friends ( apart from middle-class couples ignoring each other on Sunday whiulst reading the paper) Good range of beers, great food-expensive but you get what you pay for ( the chicken shops in the area do hot 'wings' and chips for 2 quid if that's your cuppa char) Personally I prefer meat that comes from an animal that once had a head and am willing to pay 15 quid for it. Good staff, efficient service, fantastic wine list.
anonymous - 13 Feb 2007 16:01 |
Can't be too harsh on the place, as its certainly better than ther terrible Bagabon.
However, perhaps due to the properties L-shape, its not very well designed - odd entraceway, harsh and uncomfortable 'eating only' section. Back section better - but lots of couches and armchairs means it doesn't take a lot to get rammed solid - and it does.
Saw no fewer than six mums with prams leaving the place last week - perhaps its where Stokie Mummys host their 'Mothers and Babies' afternoons thesedays - y'know a large white wine probably helps numb the pain of having to abandon their media career.
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now back to it's original name, looking more like a pub than before, but a bit scruffy leather sofas and candle light. If you like that sort of thing, ok for hanging about in, but if you want to read a newspaper with your pint on a winter's evening, very difficult in that light. not the best pub in stokie but alright, i guess
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update your site bite, this place has been open for weeks.
this is a welcome return, lovely decor, good wine, excellent food. gone are the big screen tvs, dj nights and pikey crowd, you dismal anti middle class types will no doubt condemn it as "another gastro pub, too expensive and full of ponces", for those of us who don't shop in matalan or think football counts as culture then this quite possibly the best pub in stoke newington.
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Recently reopened as The Three Crowns, a return to the name for this pub for over three hundred years. Sister to the Birdcage, Londesborough, Talbot, and Spurstowe of Hackney. Expect big leather seats and gastro food and prices.
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Newly opened pub on the former Bar Lorca site (it was called The Three Crowns years ago). Same mould as the nearby sister pubs (Birdcage, Londesborough and Spurstowe Arms). Blackboards, bricks and olives; char-grilled and loud. Harvey's and Timothy Taylor Landlord.
Mark - 4 Nov 2006 11:55 |
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