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Jesus.
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I'll support Topdog Andy. The food is the the only thing worth considering here. To me on a par with the Won Ton (sorry one tun) with a slightly more varied menu. The main differences being atmosphere - this is a restaurant above a pub, the One Tun is a pub that also serves Thai.
The pub downstairs is totally uninspiring serving ale at £3 a pint (slightly more upstairs)
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Unless you want Thai food, I can't think of a single reason to come here, and if you're only looking for something to pad down the beer (ie. not a date dinner or a business dinner), you're better off going to The One Tun on the other side of Farringdon Road, which (in my opinion) does a nicer Phad Thai, and is a real pub - not some try-hard place that's had more facelifts than Joan Collins.
For anyone thinking "this is beerintheevening, you should review about the pub, not the food", if this 'pub' had a single remotely distinct attribute, I'd mention it.
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As far as pubs go, yeah I guess it is more of a casusal restaurant now. I thought the Thai food was really good though and cheap. Though so fast you are a bit surprised ;) Been there 3 times and will go back. Though mostly for the food. Can see moving on to someplace with more atmosphere later. Every meal I have has was great though.
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Came here for the first time yesterday average bar serving thai food the castle is a better drinking hole
juzza - 23 Aug 2006 13:55 |
This used to be a good pub, then they ripped out the carpet and fishtank, overlit it, and crammed in as many tables as they could. No longer a pub, now a mediocre bar. One to avoid.
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To all intents and purposes this appears simply to be a restaurant - don't know what its doing on this site. Certainly not a place I'd called a pub.
anonymous - 20 Feb 2006 15:39 |
Plain, smokey, passable bar. There are much better options around so give it a swerve.
anonymous - 1 Aug 2005 16:00 |
what's going on? they've cleaned the place up! What happened to the old fish tank? Hope the Guinness is still good!
David - 27 Sep 2004 11:21 |
Serviceable after-hours quick-pinter. Farringdon area has a number of "bars" which merit your time but if you want a "pub" then it's this or the Castle across the road, or maybe the Hoghead (shudder). The Castle maybe has the edge. This place is long and plainly decorated and is the kind of pub which seems run-down even if it's just been refitted. Good thai food in the restaurant upstairs.
Matt - 12 Jan 2004 13:22 |
More suits here than at the Harrods sale, although a sign on the door expressly demands 'smart dress'. They take credit cards, naturally.
Best avoided if you get annoyed overhearing small office gangs of men and their secretaries dicuss nothing but business in a jovial down-the-pub-after-work kind of way.
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