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Used to be my work local for 5 very great years. Miss it lots.
Great staff that knew who you were, great beer (Fat man) and fun times.
Hope to make it my local again soon!
Busy on Thursday and friday nights, but always easy to get served. Great area downstairs for hire and also to go and hide in the coves or around the back!
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love it
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On a sodden saturday afternoon enjoyed a pleasant pair of pints here, with a nice crowd of regulars and the barman/maid. There didn't seem to be any bitter on pump so I had some "alpine lager" instead (the "man in the box" as it used to be) and it was most pleasing.
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Not bad at all. Very reasonably priced for the location, you can generally get a table, bar billiards and generally good atmosphere. It's a Sam Smiths which limits the beverage choices.
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Popped in for a pint and some food with a couple of friends. Most of the downstairs area was shut and they wouldn't serve anything to eat upstairs so we left and went to the Duke of Argyll up the road. Same beer on offer there but a more helpful attitude towards customers.
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Excellent, excellent, excellent. Cheap beer, nice clientele, friendly staff, lots of seats. Perfick.
anonymous - 1 Oct 2007 17:53 |
Bout time the bar billiards table was fixed.Nice pub and a decent pint of stout in there too.
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A nice pub generally, never overly crowded or rowdy. The only reason we sought it out originally was because it is one of the few in central london to have a bar billiards table. (please tell me if you know of any others). The table was very dodgy, and wobbled a lot. In need of a good clean and a bit of a refurb, but it worked....until recently.
It's been out of order about a month now. :-( No signs that anyone is going to bother to fix it. A shame to lose another table of an increasingly rare game :-( Please fix the table someone!!
P0lly - 29 Jun 2007 10:55 |
I agree about the late licence.Sick to the back teeth of bloody London pubs ramming me out of the door at 10.30 sharp on a sunday night.This pub is a great little place and does a great line in Sam Smiths ales.Recommended and also one of my locals in the West end.
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Much bigger than it looks from the outside, with a typical mahogany and etched mirrors Samuel Smith interior. Service on our visit was slowish, but pleasant enough. Clientele was borderline Nathan Barleys and elderly Soho lushes. Seems a bit more pricey than other Smith's pubs, but still very cheap. There was a poster up behind the bar announcing the fact that none of the brewery's products are advertised in any media. I like the Sam Smith's eccentric approach to retail, and I like their beer, too, though in London I stick to their Pure Brewed Lager. Good place.
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Have been a few times - friendly staff, comfortable and in a really central location.
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the tardis - a small entrance leading to loads of bar space. comfortably (in more ways than one) the best pub in soho, although it's getting busier as more people discover it. the beer is very very good value for the area.
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why don't they get a late license? would make it perfect.
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Cant say enough good things about this pub! A diamond in the rough - how naff!! Lovely atmosphere and good (exceptionally) cheap beer!
Beware of the toilets though, verybody thinks the Ladies loo is haunted!!
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Excellent cheap beer in a really handly location. Food generally good, although the prices have gone up a bit too much lately. But the beer prices make up for it! Recommended.
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Such an amazing find - unbelievably cheap, decent quality beer and really friendly atmosphere despite being right in the centre of soho. Would really recommend!
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This looks like a tiny pub when you go in but it is actually enormous. The Alpine Lager is worth a drink and I believe the stout is acceptable. Good to see a bar billiards table in central London. A real hidden gem in Soho.
Paddy - 10 Feb 2006 10:24 |
Great pub that I have only recently discovered but will be going there regularly from now on. Sam Smith's beer is not to everyone's taste, though I am quite happy with it, but you can't complain at the prices. Nice staff. Bar billiards table is welcome (though it's positioned so as to cause a log-jam on the way to the loo if anyone is playing).
anonymous - 9 Jan 2006 11:40 |
stumbled on this place by accident, suprisingly down to earth and friendly (if a little smokey)
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Nice Victorian number in the heart of Soho. Bit of a rabbits warren. Sam Smith's, so cheap as you like, but doesn't beat the nearby Duke of Argyll for friendly staff.
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A Sam Smiths pub - that means low prices and love ‘em or hate ‘em beers. No beers on handpump but I personally find the Sam Smiths keg beers fine. The pub itself is a never ending journey through nooks and crannys. Just when you get to the end, there is another bit further on and even a small nook at the bottom of an apparently redundant stairwell. Very Victorian in style with etched glass and mirrors. Walls plastered with pictures and mirrors. Downstairs cellar bar (didn’t try it). A couple of games machines and the crowning glory right at the back of the pub…a bar billiards table. Well worth a visit.
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Another wonderful Sam Smiths pub. This is a small Soho establishment that manages to make the most of the awkward available space to create cosy leather bound nooks and crannies rich with 1930's detail. The Singing Detective would love this place. All wood and mirrors. Carry on going and you find the space expands at the back, dropping down to a small alcove in one corner and a charming cellar bar in another. All the beers are keg and lacking in character, but they are cheap and drinkable. Typical pub food, but they do offer a good value veggie sausage and mash for under £7.00
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I love this place. It was here, many years ago, I first tasted the mentalist delights of the D Pils (and suffered the hangover the next day - beware, drink at your own risk).
Not the cosiest of drinking holes but for some no-nonsense cheap drinking fun in the heart of Soho you can't really beat it.
Me and a mate tried drinking all the beers through in one sitting which made us a big hit with the barmaids. We retired without completing, promising to review our tactics and return.... and we will... oh yes we will.
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What a strange experience!! I have never heard of the beers they sell...or the liqour for that matter. But it was a really nice pub, and beer being so cheap in the West End...who can complain!! However they could try and make it a bit cosier...thought the lighting was horrible..
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This is one of my favourite pubs in London. It has the qualities of a good local, somewhat lacking in Soho, and the beer is both delicious and inexpensive - a welcome Sam Smiths trait.
Add to this a bar billiards table, affable staff and a friendly atmosphere and you will understand why I like it so much!
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Nice pub totally let down (in my opinion) by only having Sam Smiths on keg
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this is, the most, fantastic place to have your sunday beers,only locals pub left in soho,if no-one has told you about it, you'll have to find out about it yourself, because this place dont advertise. it rocks!
john - 31 Oct 2004 01:06 |
very nice pub good food good drinks lovley to you would luv the pub
anonymous - 30 Jul 2004 16:08 |
Another top Samuel Smith's pub. Tends to get very busy, but is worth squeezing into for good cheap beer and lovely aussie barmaids heh heh. Note that it isn't actually on Glasshouse Street but Brewer Street. Close to Piccadilly Circus tube too.
Larry - 19 May 2004 15:30 |
Nice place, tucked away from the hoardes in Piccadilly. Worth finding.
anonymous - 15 Jan 2004 22:00 |
"Free the Bavarian Six!". So we used to say about the "men in the box" that sit on the bar at the Town Wharf in Isleworth. And so this pub continues the tradition of high quality Samuel Smith boozers. Some don't take to the lager but I like it (Prinz is lethal and the Pils packs a punch too). The pub itself is well worth a visit and I have been intending to pay another visit for a while now.
Good for: An all-rounder.
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Great little pub. A really nice West End pub where you can pretty much guarantee somewhere to sit any night of the week.
Jon W - 13 Aug 2003 12:09 |
Lovely little Sam Smith's boozer - fight your way past the narrow bar area to the back of the pub where there is plenty of seating and, to our great joy, a bar billiards table!! Decent basement bar with plenty of old fashioned leather-clad seating. Serve food until 9pm. Its got a couple of Aussie barmen who are quite a laugh, plus a few euro-barmaids, who are easily confused by drunken English billiards players, although they all seem to respond to the request for "three pints of that man in the box". Cabbies don't seem to know it exists though, as they always try and take you to the Glassblower which is just up the road. Well worth a visit.
Pauly H - 8 Jul 2003 14:25 |
