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Love this place. Great river views. Sam Smiths so £2.19 a pint of lager. However please dont be tempted upstairs to the awful restaurant.
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Fantastic location visited on a couple of occasions with the Prospect down the road it's a decent area to spend a 'touristy' day or night, and always fairly priced Sam Smiths which you either love or hate.
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Paid my first visit of the summer. Great Location. excellent service. Great VFM. Wish it had some real ale though. Don't mind the Keg bitter, but it just doesn't hit the spot.
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Popped in on a weekday lunchtime. Lovely old riverside warehouse building with a decent view.
Sam Smiths, so you know what to expect from the beer. I'm not the biggest fan of their bitter, but I'm usually kept quiet by a couple of pints of the wheat beer. As ever, decent prices. Also has a reasonable restaurant upstairs.
Definitely worth a visit.
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Really unusual place ...great location well worth going to for a pint (or 5)
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No real ale or Guinness yesterday. However good location and pleasant views over the river. A good stop on the trail through Wapping to Limehouse and the Grapes.
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The building housing the Captain Kidd used to be a tackle shed when the docks in that part of the world were a going concern. It's been a pub for about 20 years or so. Agree with previous reviewers that it is a shame that they don't do a decent ale. The keg version of OBB is just not as good as the handpump version. But I still rate the pub a 6, mainly for the location.
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Fantastic building and beams etc, looks like it could almost be inside a ship. Decent tables and space. Sam Smiths beer always does the trick and great value. Wapping is a interesting area to walk around too. Great location and views of the river side. Well worth a visit. 9/10
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NEEDS A DECENT RANGE OF BEER AND SPIRITS,THE ONLY GOOD THING ABOUT THIS PUB IS THE OUT SIDE AREA. FOR A FREINDLY PINT TRY THE WHITE SWAN & CUCKOO.I FOUND IT BY CHANCE TRYING TO GET A CAB JUST ROUND THE CORNER WAPPING LANE I HAD A GREAT TIME POOL, MUSIC,LOOKS TO ME LIKE IT HAD JUST BEEN REVAMPED,
anonymous - 29 Jul 2007 17:49 |
Lovely pub, great location. Just lacks a decent draught ale. Unlike a lot Of Sam Smiths pubs only bitter is on keg. Saying that a nice place to have a drink especially in the summer. I pop in there from the City every now and then on the 100 bus. Well worth a visit. Food is nice upstairs too.
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Done a good job to chuck in a pub near the top two on the Wapping High street Strip.......
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Popped in at 5 to check this pub out. Sam Smiths seemed to be the only bitter. Not my choice of what I would normally order, but okay pint. Barmaid very friendly, but with only 6 people in perhaps she was lonely! Nice outside area to watch the river, ideal in summer. I'd certainly go back when its warmer.
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Agree entirely with previous comments about the beer - what is so difficult about getting in a decent barrel of beer for customers who don't like the gassy keg or bottled varieties? didn't pay much attention to the bar staff, so I suppose the service must have been OK, but when I was there in the summer I spent an enjoyable hour or two supping with long-standing locals who were retired dockers and were experts on the area. Gratifying to discover that such people still exist.
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It is Sam Smith's and in a decent little converted warehouse. The beers on tap aren't very good but the bottled stouts and porters are. If you don't care about your beer then all is well and good for you. If you don't like the rubbish in a box then drink the bottles. If you don't like the bottles the pub isn't for you!! IT's by the river and in a good little area but all in all very average.
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Was just here earlier on, this is a great little place and another Wapping gem. Not enough choice of beer brands but nowt wrong with a bit of Sam Smiths!!! Just like the Prospect Of Whitby it has a great outside area and is perfect for a summers evening. Staff are all Aussies but we can't have evrything can we but are all nice enough
anonymous - 24 Jul 2006 20:35 |
But with temps like today at 30 degrees C all you want to start with is a lager shandy, made with the cheapest lager which they do for £1.75p. Followed by some cold cider at £2.50p a pint.
Great views and a couple of shady window seats inside.
Friendly staff.
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Agree totally with Dave the Dog - the classic Sam Smith's conundrum - great boozer, fab decor (see also Citie of Yorke, Princess Louise, Earl of Lonsdale, Sir John Snow etc) but horrible booze and no choice to drink anything else .. one of the great mystreies of our time (as is the apparent willingness of most customers to drink the bloody stuff)
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Great location, I can see why it's popular. Good place to take people from out of town to show them London is not just a concrete jungle. Wapping High Street is certainly different to most London Streets - alot of history down there.....
The only let down for me is Sam Smiths beers, but that's only my view.... Great place to enjoy a summer evening. Service was attentive too.
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This place makes Wapping. One of the best venues for a Gary in London. Great beer at a great price
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On paper sounds like 'ye olde theme pub' but in the flesh Sam Smiths have pulled off another cracker.
The wood beams and rickety appearence is all genuine and work your way through to the back of the pub to something thats surprisingly rare in london, a view of the thames.
As with all the Sam Smiths the beers are excellent value. If you miss your pint of Stella or your bacardi breezer then leave and never come back as we dont want your kind anyway!
Ace Pub for people who appreciate atmosphere and beer
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It's well off the usual track and worth a stop or going out of your way for, especially in summer, although the fixed picnic table set-up is a little impractical if there are more/less than 4 of you! The food is indeed a little overpriced, especially being a Sam Smith's, but booze makes up for that. It's an extremely popular place for antipodeans over the weekend for some reason.
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The Captain Kidd is a great London pub. Stunning location, great for outdoor summer drinking, equally as great for indoor winter drinking. The range of Sam Smiths beers are, as always, delicious, well kept and actually have flavour compared to the modern-day crap sold everywhere. Plus they're incredibly good value (although don't drink the Ayingerbrau Pils: it's lethal).
The downside is the food - it's well below aveerage and horrendously over-priced. £3.50 for a bowl of chips is, frankly, taking the piss.
Highly, highly recommended.
jossv - 26 Oct 2005 11:26 |
"If Dave doesn't like the Captain Kidd, it must be great!" Well, that's not very nice! The pub itself, the location, the views, they're all great. But nobody I know, whether they drink lager, ale, cider or whatever, can stomach the drinks served by Sam Smiths.
The lagers taste vile and you're guaranteed a throbbing head the next day, even after a moderate session.
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My thanks to DaveTheDog for his comments about Sam Smiths pubs. Read his complaint about The Angel on the otherside of the river, which I liked and thought, "If Dave doesn't like the Captain Kidd, it must be great!" And it is!
Visit it outside of the 'tourist hours' and sit in the alcove watching the ferries, police boats, incredibly expensive yachts(suitably decorated!!), a group of ducks which live nearby and just celebrate the world floating past while enjoying a Sam Smiths beer, which is still the cheapest, real beer in London.
An absolute gem of a pub.
mikem - 30 Jul 2005 09:50 |
What is it with Sam Smiths? They manage to find the most beautiful pubs in the most wonderful locations and then make us suffer their revolting drinks! This lovely wooden pub with riverside terrace would be a great summer hangout if any other brewery owned it.
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My local and one of the best pubs in London. If you haven't been... GO!
Cheap beer, excellent staff, wonderful location, great atmosphere.
Not touristy but very popular with visitors when they find it.
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Best pub in the world, ever.
Sam smiths chain means its cheap and friendly. On the river with beer garden means summer nights are excellent. Have had two birthday "all-dayers" in here and the staff showed the patience of saints.
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Very disappointing! Despite nice ambiance and excellent riverside location, food my party had on Sunday 15th May was awful. It was Onion Soup that tasted as if it was from a packet with lump of completely undigestible cheese in it, badly cooked Roast Beef like leather, Raspberry Creme Brulee like the egg custard my mother cooked in the '50s (and she was no cook!) The main course was served luke warm as if it had been hanging around since breakfast. And it was expensive even for this area of London. It was exactly the sort of meal that gives English food a bad name. Only saving grace was pleasant waitresses.
petew - 16 May 2005 13:39 |
Took a bunch of friends here two years ago after a river boat tour. Had a large alcove reserved, the Landlord kindly evicted its occupants upon our arrival. Perfect location, with a great terrace on the river. Its a huge multi-storey pub, with a restaurant at the top, and as such can get very busy with large parties (like my own), feels perhaps a little touristy and tacky but not enough to hide the incredible riverside ambience. In that respect its quite similar to The Anchor in Southwark. Can't remember the quality of the beer, was far too pissed.
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Right on the river with a small yard area bordering the water the pubs a real winner for summer.
For winter too this is a refreshing break from the shitty city bars, with there be-mulletted essex wide boy clientel.
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Lovely pub; relatively recent conversion of old warehouse, but beautifully done.
Best time to visit is at dusk on a sunny day, when the sun bounces off the skyscrapers at Canary Wharf. Gorgeous.
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Lovely little pub and a nice terrace out back overlooking the river - highly recommended. Tourist parties visiting Wapping frequently visit though...
wpjh - 13 Oct 2004 17:06 |
Absolutely fantastic pub, friendly staff, cheaply priced drinks, nice atmosphere, and great views of the river. Well worth a visit.
Craig - 22 Sep 2004 16:35 |
This is my local and I have landed on my feet. Superb, great beer Gardwen with views of Canary Wahrf and really friendly atmosphere. Lovely women as well.
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A wonderful place. Good views of the sludge by the wall, and yuo can watch the polic boats come in and out with their officers trying to be all cool. Lovely to see the lights twinkling on Canary Wharf away to the left, and oh, the beer is darn good too. Get there.
Lawrence - 6 Jul 2004 15:12 |
One of my favorite watering holes in London!
Stuart Claassen - 9 Jun 2004 14:44 |
This is without a doubt one of the best pubs I've been to for good properly cooked food, with a great atmosphere. If you book a table upstairs in the restaurant, the view of the river is great
Tessa Ritchie - 7 Jun 2004 13:09 |
I love Samuel Smith's pubs, this one is excellent. Nice interior and great view. Good for liquid lunches in the summer as you can laze on the terrace in the sun and watch all the activity on the Thames.
Get a pint or six of Prinz lager when you're in there - bloody great stuff and cheap!
Mark - 12 Mar 2004 20:34 |
Cheapest riverside pub in greater London. It's Sam Smiths so if ya like Ale/Bitter it well under £2 a pint. It is the DOGS ****** in the summer, the garden is a right sun trap.
Dan - 10 Mar 2004 13:14 |
A quite remarkable pub. The beer is very good, and cheap as chips. Where else in London can you around £1.60 for a good pint, and be directly on the river?
Nick - 10 Feb 2004 21:45 |
Good beer (fantastic stout) and the food upstairs is very good as well. Nice view out over the Thames.
James Small - 22 Dec 2003 15:26 |
Fantastic beer garden, cheap beer and good quality clientelle
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A brilliant riverside pub with excellent beer garden, great landlords and a great restaurant to go with it as well. Samuel Smiths pub.
Anja - 21 Aug 2003 11:08 |
