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Fullers have done well here - most station pubs are usually situated between 'tolerable' and 'appalling' - this one actually manages to crawl over to the sparsely inhabited side of 'good'.
Usual Fullers ale range (Pride, Discovery, ESB, Chiswick) plus two(!) guests. As mentioned by GDS below, the fridges are stocked with almost every Fuller's bottle imaginable. So you won't be spoilt for choice.
Food is basic, stick to the onion rings. Place is pretty clean, also unusual in the train pub stakes. Toilets are free, and also pretty clean.
All in all, very good for what it is and well worth a visit when using the station.
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Surprisingly not shit for a station pub (like the Head of Steam before it, over Euston way). Decent selection of beers, but the food is generally pretty rough. Zero atmosphere, but worth a visit if you've 20 minutes before departure.
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Actually not bad. You would not make a trip just to go there but for a quick pint with somebody before they get the train or meeting somebody off the train, it is quite good. Much better than most station bars.
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This is not bad at all for a pub in a major rail tation. Good atmosphere, good staff and an ever changing clientel. Congrats to Fullers!
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Good place to finish up after a night out in town - warmer than the station. Nice selection of red wines. Don't know who chooses the music - weird 80's selection. Strangely endearing.
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OK this has the air of a Wetherspoonns and the draft beer I had (Swing Low and Chiswick) wasn't served particularly well. Full range of draft Fullers but what sets this apart is the bottled range. Just about every Fullers I've heard of including Golden Pride, Old Winter Ale, 1845, London Porter and as a special treat 2005 Vintage Ale and Anniversary Ale. Surprised this is in GBG but worth making the effort to go up the escalators. Lucky to find it if you don't know it's there.
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You’ve got to admire Fullers for the effort, it can’t be easy trying to retain the principles of their brand in a station pub. They do it reasonable well in my opinion, the beer is fairly well-kept but you can never get away from the depressing fact that you’re in a dark rather shabby bar in a train station.
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Great pub with great beer and the atmosphere is top class. I like the staff and customers and it has a very good ambience. A bit dodgy when the football supporters take over with their raucous chants. One complaint - the furniture is either wobly or falling to bits, needs to be tidied up.
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Good pub due to the well kept Fullers range of beers. Busy in evenings and steady stream of people at weekends. Not a locals pub though, used mainly by people using rail services or on their way to sports events.
Good pub food, though make sure you check your food order once its been placed as from experience some of the foreign staff have misheard my order.
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A good modern pub, Great selection of Fullers Ales, That’s why I like it here!!! A chilling out pub is how I describe it
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A reasonable pub. Far from being the worst in the world. Serves decent beers and the food is (usually) decent, standard Fullers fair.
It is a bit dark in there though.
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Decent pint of Fullers Discovery 2 be had, 8/10
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For a station pub, this place is great. Beer is good and varied. Service good. Have never eaten there , but food looks good as well. Light, airy and not overloaded with ciggy smoke
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Possibly better than one could ever hope from a station pub and a quantum leap from the simply terrible Isambard's. Serves ale, isn't a chain (as far as I am aware) and has toilets one can patronise without stumping up 20p - but, on balance, still a place one would frequent only if one had no alternative.
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If you were planning on initiating a pub crawl around the pubs located within Paddington station then this place would be the most anticipated.
Given that one of the golden rules of pubs is that all pubs in (or closest to) a train station are terrible, this one is better than the average in this dubious category. Admirably, you can use the toilet in this place without asking for a security code (an affliction from which both nearby Reef bar and Isambard's both suffer).
If you really need a drink and you really can't bear to be away from the station then this is your best bet (though if there were more seats on the concourse of the station then getting a can of something from Simply Food would run it close). If you can tear yourself away then do that and head off toward the nearby Victoria - a lovely pub.
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A good place to wait for your train. The Fullers beers have always been on fine condition when I have visited.
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very good ale and fish and chips.
Professionally run despite being very busy.
Only complaint was the removal of all the trash from the bar areas was transported through the dining area whilst eating
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Ales are top notch, staff are helpful, apart from one, and the food is good.
Great pub
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Excellent Fuller's ales. Probably one of the best 'big station' pubs in the country. Shame about the loud volume of TV sport. Can't people just watch the game - without the 'experts' drivelling on? But, at least there's a patio drinking area - if you can say that when it's still within the trainshed?!
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Visited on a weekday lunchtime..pretty quiet...good to have the train indicator boards...beer on good form including a guest. I reckon they could do with lowering food prices a tad!
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A good effort from Fullers to provide a 'watering hole' slightly removed from the hustle and bustle of Paddington's platforms.
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One of the better station pubs - infinitely better than Waterloo's, for instance. Perhaps it's the lovely ESB that does it!
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Popped in here to kill some time before my train to the west country. Wish I hadn't bothered! Why do pub chains spend so much money on building station bars and then so little on staff training and staff levels. Appeared to be two members of staff on duty, One was busy making about six coffees while the other was engaged with a food order. Stood there for about ten minutes with my fiver in my hand and a smile on my face but to no avail. Decided to leave it and walked out.
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One of the better 'train station pubs' I've seen (which isn't saying much), but the best place for a quick drink before getting your train or whilst waiting for someone.
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This suffers from some of the disadvantages of being a new station pub (all passing trade, no atmosphere). However, I always have a good pint of Fullers here, and there is usually a guest beer. Staff are fine, food is OK, and it is a comfortable venue with a non-smoking area.
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Real ale selection is OK but staff are only passing through, beer not in particularly good condition, and atmosphere is certainly not a pub but a tarted up waiting room.
Try Sussex or for a real treat - the Mitre
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Not bad, plenty of room and perhaps doesn't attract the casual drinkers like the platform-side pubs such as the Duke of York @ Kings Cross, so never seems overcrowded.
Oh and the beer's OK too. Fullers range is worth a sip.
jcraf - 14 Jun 2005 18:33 |
This pub was recommended to me by a friend in the private security business. I suppose its an ideal place for covert photos of illicit affairs. I like the busyness of the place with all sorts coming and going. The Fullers beer is top notch and the staff reasonably pleasant and on the ball. You can look purposeful here even if your not going to Penzeance or posssibly Reading. Its up near the roof of Paddington Station and you can wonder what the Mad Bishop really did say to the Bear.
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If you have nothing better to do than sit in train station pubs all day (which sometimes I haven't!) then this is ideal! A place where you can sit on a window bar stool and watch all the commuters and travellers busy rushing for trains and desperately searching the large destination board.
A good pint (full range of Fullers), peaceful and relaxed atmosphere, you could lose hours of your life in this place - Not such a bad thing! 7/10
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A station pub is usually depressing and dodgy beyond belief (see Bonapartes in Waterloo for example) but as it goes this place is not too bad.
No other reason to drink here apart from waiting for a train mind you.
TheGP - 14 Sep 2004 14:21 |
A decent London pub for sure. Recommended and not too pricey for station location. Get yer beer for the train from the Sainsburys underneath.
Ollie Reed - 30 Aug 2004 16:28 |
While the missus and I looked around the station a bit to satisfy her Paddington Bear fetish, we popped in for a pint or two and found the service more than adequate, the decor agreeable and the setting fairly nice--pleasant surprise considering it was basically a train station pub.
Not the best place for a long haul, but to these Americans it was a welcome respite. Recommended.
Andy - 20 Jan 2004 19:27 |
Food's a bit lame, but service is good, and much the best of the London station pubs. A nice place to sit and read the paper on a Sunday afternoon.
grecian - 24 Dec 2003 11:25 |
Normally serves a good range of beers including Fullers
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A large, spacious, better than average station concourse pub. Gets very crowded with commuters in the early evening but the staff cope well. Not the best pub in the area and not the place for a long session but more than adequate for a swift pint or two while waiting for your train.
Stevo - 19 Aug 2003 12:33 |
