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This is a large open Wetherspoons located up on the first floor of the O2 centre. It’s full of the usual assortment of Spoon’s patrons propping up the bar and the odd shopper sitting by the huge windows over looking one of the many picturesque Finchley Road traffic light junctions.
The service and the quality of the lager is naff and the only good thing is that there are escalators and a lift that go up to and down from the floor the pub is on.
Utter Pants!
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I was thrown out of here on the day it opened for wearing slippers. I think it has gone down hill ever since
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I visited once some time ago and thought it was a pretty awful outlet. It obviously hasn't changed as the comments bear out.
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Agree that this place has gone downhill over the last year or so (part of a more general decline in the 02 centre I'd say). Service is very poor and the custom tends to a little rough round the edges, shall we say.
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This is a place which manages to stand out even amongst Wetherspoon's pubs as bad. Admittedly, I'm basing my opinion on just one visit, but the service is poor and the beer was very badly kept. To add to that, it's pretty devoid of atmosphere as you would expect. I don't think I'll be back in the area for some time now so thankfully I won't be anywhere near this place for a while.
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Used to be a passable place to have a quick pint before the cinema, with a decent range of guest beers just about compensating for the rather soulless atmosphere.These days the place looks like it's on the slide. Guest ales seem to be being eroded by a collection of lagers, seemingly 6 or 7 different ones at my last visit (including Budweiser-the appearance of which is never a good sign). Service is generally quite poor as well , very large bar with never more than a couple of people serving, regardless of how busy it is.The whole pub just exudes a slightly stale air and I honestly can't think of anything much to recommend it.
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The slowest serivce of any pub anywhere in the world. Only ever seems to have one or two members of staff serving and another two buggering about shifting nothing. The staff have a noticable talent for serving the poor buggers who have been at the bar longest after the johnnie-come-latelys.
Beer's poop, atmosphere is 'airport waiting lounge', smells of stale beer and cigarettes. Nothing whatsoever to recommend it.
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Last time I was here there was an almighty punch up involving the local chavs. Whole works, chairs flying through the air, people attacking each other with stools. Cracking entertainment.
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This is the pub where I had to point out that Cotleigh Peregrine Porter is an ale and not a dark lager. The bar manager seemed to think that all dark beers are like Guinness and should be served just above freezing point. In those days there was just one guest ale and the rest were the usual suspects. That has improved but the atmosphere is still pretty dead, mainly because of the layout being a long curved area with high ceilings. They also changed the pub from outside London prices to Central London prices some time back (still quite cheap down here but another reason not to go back).
anonymous - 9 May 2005 21:06 |
Dry....used to come here when I was 17 + never even got looked at by the staff, now 2 yrs on i'm gettin asked 4 i.d at the bar....the shame! No music + the foods expensive and it aint even nice...i could have cooked a better jacket potato in the microwave! Drinks cheap and thats the only reason people go!!
anonymous - 1 May 2005 20:33 |
Probably the most boring pub in the world.............No atmosphere, terrible food and poor service.
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I had the flattest pint of my life here and the atmosphere matched it perfectly. Even as Wetherspoons pubs go this is bad.
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It all went wrong as soon as we walked through the door; an absolute waste of time. No atmosphere, and layout is completely sterile. Food was expensive and no sign of the usual 'Spoonies 2 for 1 meal deal. Toilets were also filthy - an area where this company usually excels. Don't bother.
Giles - 4 Nov 2004 13:13 |
The only thing that can be said for it is that you can grab a pint before going to the cinema or in readiness to attack Sainsbury's or Homebase. The beer is OK but have tasted better in other Weatherspoons. If you are lucky you can watch silhouetted people make exhibitions of themselves in the flats opposite.
Gareth - 15 Oct 2004 13:17 |
I couldnt work out if this bar was a waiting room or a very poor resaurant, poor service, worse beer and typical wetherspoon microwaved dinners served in a space with so much potectial, dissipointing - luckly center offers further choice for a further vist to the cinema.
terry - 29 Sep 2004 01:46 |
was in there friday night. absolutly no atmosphere. guinness wasnt very good, service was slow. didnt bother to stay for another.
anthony - 4 Jul 2004 16:51 |
Cheap drinks is the only good thing about this place. The service I have received when ordering food is atrocious, but as with all wetherspoons, only good for cheap drinks.
anonymous - 10 Dec 2003 15:38 |
it takes great people to make a great atmosphere. decoration and music should not!!!!!
michelle - 21 Oct 2003 15:25 |
But all Weatherspoons fill like an airport lounge. Cheap drink I guess but that's about it. Food really is rank.
anonymous - 20 Aug 2003 19:59 |
Odd one this. Located in the O2 shopping centre next to the Warner Cinema complex, it's very large and spacious and has the same soulless atmosphere as an airport pub.
Functional like the Wetherspoons in Heathrow, you'd only ever go there if you're waiting for a film to start or for a plane to take off.
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