please note - reviews on this site are purely the opinion of site visitors, so don't take them too seriously.
Wonderful beer, heavy - heavy - food, lovely atmosphere, helps if you speak Czech/Slovak, but equally doesn't matter if you don't. Tremendous history, founded (so they say) at least in part with a gift from President Edouard Benes. Quite hard to find, thankfully.
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Very friendly and unassuming place. Czech lagers are £3, although they are not pints (European measures I think). Food is cheapish, although it seems to be "pork belly" with everything.
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interesting place, a good deal of history, going back to the war.
good mix of eastern european's and locals. excellent draught beer (budvar/pilsner urquell) and very good for food.
won't be everyone's cup of tea, but i like it.
mps77 - 30 Jul 2007 13:27 |
Love this place. Simple and unpretentious, (which makes a change from the West Hampstead of today), and focuses on the things that make a bar great - drinking and atmosphere. Food's good too.
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one of the more distinctive establishments in london. great pilsner in proper old pint glasses. really fun and definately different. Looks like a social club/hostel from outside but don't be scared to go in, you'll enjoy it!
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Went in here to sample some local atmosphere during a Czech World Cup game and I was impressed - serves a very decent pint of Czech lager.
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Would like to have tasted the food before it went "downhill"; the pork knuckle was incredible. Good beer too.
anonymous - 8 May 2006 12:43 |
The food isn't as good as it used to be but if you want a really good strong pint of Czech lager in a strange kind of working mens club setting then its worth popping in.
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My mother is Czech and have been here only twice, first experiance was a great one second even better. We went there in Sept this year and are going again tonight. If you want authentic, this is the place, familiar loud uncles and smooth heartwarming beer. No its not perfect or pretty like english pubs but hters a bareness which makes it a welcoming place. Leave your ego at the door, this is raw beer guzzling fun !!
Jana - 19 Nov 2004 10:04 |
Had a bit of a remake. Big screen in one of the rooms and the restaurant has reopened. Saw some of the weirdest meat dishes ever.
anonymous - 1 Nov 2004 11:31 |
The Czech Club has been in West End Lane since the war and has an interesting history. It IS different but in many ways so much more welcoming than many bars currently in West Hampstead. If you want loud crap music, gnatts piss lager and pretentious clientele there's plenty of choice nearby.
anonymous - 21 Jul 2004 20:49 |
This place is really weird. Probably the norm in Eastern Europe, but extremely incongruous with West Hampstead
anonymous - 21 Jul 2004 16:12 |
can walk past this and miss it but its well worth the effort to find a most bizzare time is to be had but sschhh dont tell everyone lets keep it our little secret lol
kevin - 28 Feb 2004 15:04 |
Pilsner Urquell back on tap. I've noticed that the sometimes overly noisy people are more often not the english groups. Wonder why that is.
anonymous - 23 Dec 2003 16:43 |
Bit like a students union. Usually very busy on weekends. Can be very smokey. Decent place for a pint though.
anonymous - 21 Aug 2003 17:26 |
Easily missed, it's found in some kind of Czech hostel. In fact, it's more hostel than pub, but it's perfectly acceptable to just wander in and get a pint of old unpronouncable in a handled beer glass whilst watching Czech satellite TV in a plain, brightly lit room.
Eastern European women abound, which is nice, and one would wager that they're probably Czech. Worth mentioning that one person's reasons to like it are the same as another person's reasons to hate it. If that sounds odd, try it out.
I occasionally go back only to see if I'll ever bump into that gorgeous blonde who randomly asked me if I liked Czech beer. She's probably long since back in Prague, but I'm smitten (and pathetic) enough to keep returning. The weird thing was, she seemed to have a grey back, or so Dave and Rob keep reminding me. Wert.
Ruby - 16 Jul 2003 00:59 |
