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Gets busy on a Friday lunchtime (or when the cricket is on) but otherwise a great pub. Friendly staff, good pints (and a variety of ales) and a great beer festival. Food is expensive but good for pub grub
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Not a bad pub to have an evening drink in, especially if you sit outside. Fabulous surroundings, plenty to watch, people, planes, the DLR. Beer was fine, served quickly even though pretty busy with suits after a hard day earning obscene amounts of money!! Think the round was £1 dearer than later pubs visited over in Greenwich but worth it for the buzz of the area I guess. Would jump off the DLR and grab a pint if passing on a warm summers day for sure.
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I think this pub is good, if expensive. It's a great place to sit outside on a warm day with a pint of lager or to call in to after the gym.
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Fair play to Fullers, they've had a go here at trying to inject something approaching a traditional pub into the most artificial of surroundings. The pub is organised into an L-shape and features sky sports prominently. Disappointingly London Pride dominates, although ESB and Discovery (£3.20) also on. I don't find myself in Canary Wharf often but if I did I would probably make this a regular haunt but that says more about the dearth of decent competition than the quality of this place itself.
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Too noisy for my liking. Price of beer is £3.25p per pint of London Pride.
HAs free Wifi
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Best pub on the wharf, actually feels like a pub
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Not bad for The Wharf. The beers are good (especially the Pride) and staff are friendly but I've eaten there twice and the food didn't impress, it's a good place to watch sports and enjoy the sun. A word of warning to people outside - don't use the fire exit to get in to the pub as you might end up with a dart in the head / leg depending on who's playing.
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Cool bar for the Docklands compared to its other horrible bars. Dart board , good screens for all sports. Good Guinness and selection of booze.
Cant fault it.. Also does nice grub. Like a traditional local. Well worth a visit.
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This pub has a great atmosphere friendly bar staff and management. Fruit machines, itbox, 6ft projector screen for live sports, and dining during the day. Excellent in the Summer and Sunday roast on Sundays, this pub is a hit with family's, youngsters and old codgers alike.
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The only real decent pub in the Wharf where I have spent many a nice Friday afternoon long lunches with colleagues and many after work pints. Not the finest pub you'll ever go in I admit, but it serves a few decent ales on the pumps and a few in bottles and also does not bad food. Pretty good prices as well compared to other places in the area.
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North Pole, £2-50 for a Pride, also has Landlord and Old Speckled Hen. Far better pub, better beer-no contest.
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Probably the best pub in Docklands - yes, I know it isn't saying much - but I've just come back from a long liquid lunch with work colleagues, the London Pride was spot on at only £ 2.80 ( it costs £ 3 in the Counting House in the City ) - do YOU know a better drinking place round here - if so, let me know ASAP ?
Cheers
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Overcrowded, overpriced Wharf pub. The acoustics in here make conversation a struggle, over the noise of the mob.
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Service is fast and staff are pleasant. Just PLEASE turn down the music in the evening. I get the impression that the music is more for the benefit of the staff than the customers!
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A nice pub to go to on a hot summer’s day if you like a bit of shade. Pretty standard Fullers pub with little character but in my opinion there are far worse places to be. Service was a little slow but not awful and the pint I had was OK if a little expensive.
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Although the ales are generally satisfactory, this bar is well below Fullers' usual standards. The other night the music was turned up so loud at 6pm that conversation was almost impossible. Why not turn the music off and try to be a bit different from other Canary Wharf bars?
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Fake olde-worlde pub, and done pretty well too. Great beer and lgreat ocation on the quayside.
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I would not (and do not) drink anywhere else in Canary Wharf. Agreed it is not a traditional pub but it is head and shoulders above the alternatives.
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Before it was recently refurbished, this was an over-crowded, scruffy pub with staff who did not understand how to handle real beer (witness the comment by a bar manager who claimed the beer must be alright as they'd only just changed the barrel. I asked if it had been given chance to settle. She looked at me like I was a martian or something).
Since it was refurbed, they have stumbled across the innovation of banning people from standing around tables. Instead, they push them all against the railings so you only get to use one side of them. You can just imagine the scene as groups of people who, instead of standing in groups around a table talking to each other, are instead lined up in some kind of bad-tempered line dance.
This pub is rubbish and nothing like as good as Fullers usual standard. Go to Davy's instead, at least they know how to keep a decent pint.
anonymous - 19 Mar 2007 12:02 |
Well below Fullers' usual standards. I could forgive the uninspiring location in the foot of an office block were it not for the general air of dirtiness about the place - discarded glasses and crisp packets etc. everywhere, and the state of the gents was poor even for London. My pint of Discovery was mediocre as well. Poor.
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It's great to find a decent, dirty old man's pub around all the snobby wine bars in Canary Wharf, I love it!
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Overpriced and Average...nothing to write home about.
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Visited on a Sat lunchtime - service quick for both food and beer. London Pride in good nick; veggie burgers out of this world! Food highly recommended.
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too busy to get serverd. had to go to the bar next door.
anonymous - 22 Apr 2006 02:57 |
Very rude / semi retarded bar staff. Only darts board in canary wharf is the only saving grace of this overpriced dirty drinking hole.
anonymous - 12 Mar 2006 15:45 |
Better than the Henry Addington, there's marginly less chance you'll get punched in the face.
However still not great, the beer is just too damned expensive.
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A very average pub in the very dull area of Canary Wharf.
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An ok pub in an area with bars! However, not the best experience I've had. Just so that John(below) is correct, the HA was the first pub in the wharf, and is by far the best place to go for a beer, anytime, you are always welcome!
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An oasis for decent drinking and atmosphere in the desert that is Canary Wharf. This was the first pub to arrive on the Wharf and, with the arguable exception of the Henry Addington, is the only decent drinking hole in the area.
Proper pub - proper people. A bit like a City pub, which is the finest accolade possible. Highly recommended
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Not the best experience I've had in the Wharf. The staff are slow, and struggled to understand English. What a hard job, thought a beer in the evening was meant to be fun, thought I'd finished work!!!
anonymous - 8 Jun 2005 21:07 |
Wasnt a bad place to go and watch England stuff ireland a few weeks back.
bit more pricey than i am used to but i wasnt drinking much anyways.
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A good place to go to watch the football at Canary Wharf.
An old fashioned pub with decent drinks and a quieter atmosphere if your not in the mood for the lively bars across the water!!
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A lively city bar with an excellent view over a quay. Gets quite busy.
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Old mans pub in the middle of Canary Wharf. How is that possible?!
Alex - 17 Nov 2004 17:42 |
Just another bland pub full of suits all talking about money money money which is all the automatons in that area care about.
martin bailey - 11 Sep 2004 01:37 |
Bog standard chain pub with the good fortune of being in Docklands so the outside tables look across a quay to the Docklands Museum building.
The bars on the other side of the water are better but this is a useful place for a pint and a burger before hand.
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