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Large multi roomed pub that used to be a brewpub, one of four pubs around Kew Green. Several beers on including Castle Rock Midnight Owl. Not enough people serving - bar servers seem to also have to deliver food to tables - so there was a bit of a wait.
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Since my last review almost a year ago, the pub has been taken over by Marstons. The food is a bit better than it was - but still not brilliant - and the beer quality was good. Friendly and helpful staff. The real problem is the prices - it may sell the most expensive beer in Kew - the food offering is also expensive for what you get.
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Went in here for a couple of swift ones yesterday. It is a fairly upmarket eatery/microbrewery, but friendly nonetheless. 6 of the ales brewed on the premises were available - OK Bitter, Maximus, Pumpkin, Q Gold, Night Porter & Three Nine One. I tried the pumpkin beer and the porter and both were reasonable. There are also a number of keg options and a good choice of foreign beers in bottles. More a bar than a pub. But probably the best establishment around the green.
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Had a very good pint of OK Bitter. But, the place doesn't know whether it wants to be a pub of bar or cafe. When I visited, early evening Friday, there were about 6 noisy children under the age of 7 running all around the place - shall not be returning.
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Large brewpub on Kew Green with half a dozen beers. I had the 391 Mild OK but nothing special. We had the Mediterranean platter - a not very interesting selection of Middle Eastern snacks. The place was packed, but often I've walked past and it has been deserted. Could and should try harder.
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Went in with a few friends to try the beer. Tried the pale ale and the stout and didn't finish either. Very poor and overpriced.
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Good selection of beers, but served to cold.
Could be a lot better.
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Interesting restaurant with home brew beer that was not its strong point.
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Great selection of beers, need to control the families but good solid bar.
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Lovely beer - the strong Maximus, 379 ale and Nemophilia - about 6 ales on tap. Food came quick and was filling. Got here on the Saturday about 20 minutes after it opened - very busy, certaintly a hit with families. Saturday afternoon is one for a quiet pint. Well worth it though for the beer.
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Very good beer, decoration, food and service. About 8 mins walk from Kew Gardens station. Great place to go for some real ale!
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Confused arguing staff, 'yummy mummies' kids running all over the place and cold inside. Not a good first visit. Beer brewed on site promised much but didn't work for me.
ixion - 20 Nov 2011 17:39 |
this is the bizarro Inn at Kew Gardens. But with better beer.
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Finally, they seem to have decided to concentrate on being a pub!
Re-opened, and with a micro-brewery (in the window) aiming to supply it and 7 others. No in-house beers ready yet (launching 14th Sep), but already a decent and different range of beers and lagers.
So, 14th in the Bot and 15th at the KGH mini beer festival.
If they get the service right could be a winner.
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Currently closed for a few days while they do a refurb - rumour has it when it reopens they will have their own micro-brewery!
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I like this place. It's either dead or it's heaving.
Nice friendly staff, the guvnor is a top bloke too
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Quite pleasant restaurant pub, liking what you do, just nice, thats it really
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Really pleasant pub bar with a seperate restaurant area. Can seem quiet at times, but the Twickenham Ales Pale Beauty and the St Edmunds ales were in fine form. Nice to see some different ales (although limited to two) than the usual Fullers/Youngs etc
spack - 31 Jul 2010 12:47 |
Dont get this place at all. What is it? A bar or a restaurant?
Wish they could make this one busy like the old days!!!!!!!!
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Good food, nice decor and comfy sofas, but lacking atmosphere and a poor range of beers.
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Spent Halloween evening in here and had a thoroughly enjoyable time. Have also been to a couple of gigs there which were also good. Haven't yet tried the food so cannot comment on it - but the botanist gives Kew something that its been missing for a while, somewhere with a late licence that is also used as a venue.
Good stuff
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This place has managed to pull off the �quirky modern� look with relative success � visiting on a sunny afternoon, it felt very pleasant. Light coloured walls and interesting d�cor.
They need to give the staff more training though � I was kept waiting at the bar while the barmaid went round setting up menus on the tables, and when I was served she did so by standing at the till on the other side of the bar. This meant she misheard my order and we only got one burger meal instead of two! On the way out, I went to settle my tab and the PIN machine would not read my card. Rather than try again, she stonily said �card not working� (she was Eastern European, I think) and handed it back. I simply wiped the chip and lo and behold it worked again!
No point in putting foxy-looking staff behind the bar when they�ve clearly been given no training, and end up appearing rude!
The ale choice was limited to one, and the food was OK.
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We arrived here after a 60th birthday picnic at Kew was rained off. They set up a special table for 20 of us, the food was reasonably priced and all came at once and they let us have our own cake. All this with only 2 staff on at the bar and plenty of other customers. Really impressed with the service!
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More 'gastro' than pub, and no real ale available on my visit. Apart from that, not too bad a place on the edge of Kew Green, and larger than one would expect with lots of nooks and crannies.
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This is a nice looking gastro pub that was serving up Sharp�s Cornish Coaster, Fosters, Kronenburg, San Miguel, Birra Morreti, Aspalls cider and Guinness on my visit last week. The barman was very friendly, but unfortunately I was the only person in the pub at 12:30 and after returning from the toilet upstairs I was told that I have to move as a reserved sign had suddenly appeared on my table. I�m not 100% that it wasn�t there when I originally sat down, but I�m pretty sure.
It�s a fairly big pub, but it is nicely sectioned so that it doesn�t have a food hall atmosphere. I spotted a couple of plasma screens and I could have sat there all afternoon watching the tennis.
The �sun trap� paved beer garden is fairly small and unexciting although there are thousands of little lights around the walls, so maybe it comes to life at night.
I wouldn�t go out of my way to drink here, but I�ve been to a lot worse gastro pubs than this so I may pop in if passing again.
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Have eaten here a few times and still not sure if I like it or not. I do like the look of the place, though food has been only average and service friendly enough but a little clueless.
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Nice location but a fairly standard modern pub, the earlier comment about all bar one is spot on. The sun trap garden was full of smokers when I went so we stayed inside and sat on one of the sofas. OK overall but no real reason to go back.
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Not a pub but a restaurant with a bar area. Good food and not too overpriced, though the real ale was decidedly iffey last time I ate there. Nice enough spot but very bland interior - rather too much of an all-bar-one clone with little character.
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came in last sunday 10th around 6pm had the sunday roast nice but bit expensive. finished my meal with my wife sitting there having a quite drink around 9.30 when told it was last orders even though they have a later licence was a little shocked but barman said it was policy if bar went quite looked around only myself and my wife left so went on our way.only to go over the road to a near by pub not hotel to find just a few people in there but manager very helpful.As new to the area thanx to the helpful barman at the botanist think i have just found my new local.Sorry djs 100 yards and you have just found the best pub on the green.
anonymous - 17 Jun 2007 13:00 |
Its great in here and its no longer a restaurant, the bar is now stocked with 4 Lagers, a white beer and 2 ales, one from Twickenham Fine Ales. The beer garden is a great suntrap,with none of the traffic noise. By far the best pint to be had in the area
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Mixed feelings about our Mothers Day experience. On the plus side they definitely cater for kids, the service was very quick, they did have draught beer at a good price and some of the food was good, apparently - to be fair, the puddings were great - particularly the ice-cream. On the minus side, my lamb roast was poor, the roast potatoes poorer - and it's not easy to mess up roast potatoes. What they should have done was give me the 'big chips' my 4-year old had. These were actually just smaller roast potatoes and a complete rip-off as chips. So not too happy about �13 for a poor roast. Lastly, we were told we were on the noon sitting so turned up just before noon - 2 minutes before - and they turned us away for those 2 minutes. I don't have a problem with places not opening until opening time, but if you're going to encourage people to be on time for their specified sitting, don't keep them waiting. After all, they have a bar area that's ideal for people waiting to be seated. I'm afraid it'll take some persuading for us to consider returning.
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Great new bar/restaurant in Kew. Taken over where Browns was. Have added some premium lagers and a real ale at last! Great wines and cocktails.
Has a restaurant attached, food is great, Sunday roast very popular. I like the beer garden and snacking on the meat platters from the bar snack menu. Keep it up guys
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