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Great place, good beer, the suits hanging around the pubs on Blackfiers road don't know what they are missing!!!
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cracking little pub that keeps a good beer, serves a good lunch dishes them up in a nice friendly way. can't believe i worked round the corner for 4 years and never went in.
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Happines is this lovely little pub off the Blackfriars rd. Superb selection of S & N Beers, lovingly served up. Clean, pleasant and spotless. A London pub treasure. Mark it in your best beer book chaps?
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Superb.
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Excellent Sheps pub - decent beer, good atmosphere and somewhat 'old fashioned' (in the best sense of the phrase...).
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Masterbrew, Spitfire, Kent’s Best, Earlybird, tried the latter which was in fine condition. A compact pub arranged around a 3qtr island bar, scrubbed wood floor to the front with leather banquette seating, wood tables, padded stools & barstools, wood-panelled walls decorated with photos & prints of old London, esp river locations. Up a couple steps & around the longer narrow side of bar to an open snug-like carpetted area, a hanging board proclaims ‘Shepherds Retreat – Crook Bar upstairs’, dk whether that is a function room. Outside there is a mostly grassed beer garden to side & rear, somewhat overlooked by surrounding buildings. Seems popular for lunch with nearby office workers & menu includes burgers, chilli, nachos (£5-6), cod & chips (£7). Don’t know how busy it gets to support 4(!) lunchtime staff but you won’t go thirsty; I was asked 3 times whether I was waiting before I was even halfway down my pint! Traditional looking pub with good Sheps beers at £3.
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Shepherd Neame pub with the full range of SN ales on offer. I had the Kent’s Best which was excellent. This is a smallish pub with the feel of a traditional local about it. Quite a large garden (by Central London standards) which makes it very popular in the summer. The food has always been pretty good when I have eaten there, and the service has always been friendly and welcoming. Compared to some of the other places in the general area, this is a real gem.
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This is a great wee pub.
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Good old style Sheps pub.
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Lovley little boozer, warm welcome and a good pint of master brew
mrse1 - 10 Dec 2007 10:26 |
Terrific place. Visited on a warm sunny evening, post smoking ban so there were hordes of customers outdoors in the large area to the rear of the boozer. The place is evrything a pub should be - traditional, welcoming, polite speedy service, cosy and with well kept beers. The place has great character - you enter a space like this and you could only be in England. My only complaint was the music being braodcast over a cheap tinny PA system - it was hip-hop when I went in followed bizarrely by the Rubettes Greatest Hits, more hip-hop, then Led Zeppelin 4. Most of this was highly jarring to the senses and out of place given the atmosphere of the pub - the clientele didn't look the sort to enjoy rap for instance. When will landlords understand that any old noise doesn't create atmosphere?! Anyway this aside, a fine place
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Another very enjoyable visit early yesterday evening from yours truly. Spitfire on fine form.
So what if the Spitfire is 30p dearer than the Youngs in the PWH - I know which pub and which beer I prefer.
This is the type of pub that the marketing department gurus of the big pubco's would have us believe that no - one visits any more. Well don't believe it. Visit recommended if in the area, but surprisingly, not open at weekends
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First visit on friday,took a group of Aussies from work to see a " real English pub ". Nice interior,quick efficient service and good choice of ales. Pint of Spitfire is 30p dearer than an Ordinary over the road at Prince William Henry but such is life !.Location is a bit of a secret which is good as it keeps the arseholes away !.
The Aussies were suitably impressed.
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I can only agree that this is a very pleasant pub which benefits from a HUGE garden which is brilliant in the warmer months.
The staff are very efficient at serving good ales (Shepherd Neame) and lunches at reasonable prices. Well worth a visit.
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Excellent beer in cosy (and nearly always packed) bar. Tremendous lunchtime food. A classic.
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Another pleasant visit last Tuesday evening, the Sheps is a good pint in here, but no sighting of Jamelia, alas !
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Fine traditional Sheps pub just off the Blackfriars Road - well worth seeking out for its unspoilt interior and local atmosphere. You wouldn't think you were just 10 minutes walk or so from the City.
Try the Kents Best if it's on - a relatively new Sheps beer that I hadn't sampled before
Look out also for the fit black barmaid who's a dead - ringer for Jamelia - very tasty
Splendid pub - highly recommended
Surprised it doesn't open weekends at all
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This pub does not open at weekends - I mention this because you might expect it to - the nearby Prince Albert and Paper Moon do
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Decent shep's pub tucked nicely out of the way. Plenty of real ale (all shep's naturally)and a pleasant interior. Apprantly its been on the site for a couple of hunred years....nice all round.
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Fab place. Once the landlord - a Begbie type Scot - brought us round sarnies and sausage rolls from a do upstairs. They were all dog-eared and 'orrible but he offered them to the whole pub and it was the thought that counted. Then last night he put the willies up some cheap-suited Henry at the bar. Begbie spooked the prat with some ultra-aggressive Scots backchat before grinning and saying 'nah, don't worry, only joking pal'. Priceless. The Henry cacked his marketing pants. A word about the landlady too; she's proper London class. As for the locals, plenty of strawberries in the middle of the faces and saloon bar tans. I'll be back.
anonymous - 10 Mar 2006 11:41 |
Marvellous. Proper boozer tucked away round the back of the church... in fact, the beer garden is a big chunk of the churchyard... the vicar doesn't seem to mind though. Great Shepherd Neame ales and the fairly unusual Oranjeboom lager on draught. Friendly locals and staff, and good attentive service. The family who run this place clearly take a pride in their work. Good stuff.
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When I worked nearby until recently, this was THE place for an early evening pint and a decent chat. They also do some very good bar food.
Biker - 25 Nov 2005 15:28 |
Nice cosy pub with decent beer and pretty good food (nice range of burgers). As was said below, at its best in the summer though when the huge beer garden comes into its own. For god's sake listen out for your name when they bring the food out though...
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Very pleasing pub with beer quality usually good if rather expensive. Good upstairs function room for small groups.
mally - 25 Mar 2005 13:26 |
Nice pub, but particularly good in the summer thanks to its implausibly large grassy beer garden - right in the middle of London.
Adrian Taylor - 23 Jul 2003 23:17 |
