please note - reviews on this site are purely the opinion of site visitors, so don't take them too seriously.
If you are ever in the need to be disabused as to the the merit of a bar, this is one.
expensive and poor - slavish and mercenary - smug and witless
The conceit is that there is quality service and product.
Go there and laugh.
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Nice enough pub, identikit gastropub but very busy on a Wednesday which is a good sign and has a lovely garden. Food is meant to be OK but didn't stay as all their ales were off. Think you'd need to stay here to see the charm of the place and be persuaded to return as initially lacking - I didn't so most probably won't
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Had lunch here on Saturday. Looked pleasant and inviting enough (with an open log fire, on a very cold day), but rather All-Bar-One-ish in decor. All except one of the bitters were off, which I think is inexcusable on a Saturday. I had a half of something OK, for �1.65. My burger & chips (�9.95) was surprisingly good: tasty burger, very good chips, although the presentation and side-dishes of salad etc. were fussy and pretentious. And for �10 you expect the best burger in London! All in all, not bad, but I see no reason to ever go back.
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After the refurbishment, a formerly scary pub (at least if you weren't white or a QPR supporter) is now yet another gastropub with high prices. But at least it's relatively friendly, my money is good here and the back garden has got some fantastic wheelie-cart seating.
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Very much changed in its current incarnation, which seems a shame.
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over-priced, wannabe gastropub devoid of atmospere
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Visited the Eagle last night Thursday the 2nd of July, busy with lots of people, slow bar staff, and not enough staff to cope with the amount of people.
Ordered food - 3 of us ordered Sirloin steak at �15.00 medium rare, very small for the price and could have been eating anything as the steak was very bland. Our other party member ordered the pork belly (�12 or �12.50) very disappointed he compared it to pork chops without the bone and again bland bland bland. The chips were good.
Beer �3.65 a pint very overpriced, food BLAND BLAND BLAND small and over priced. STRONGLY Suggest you go else where.
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Not as grim as I was expecting, but the first thing I wondered on walking through the door was what the hell had they spent all that money on?
I found the open-plan interior all a bit bland and soulless. It felt a bit like some old style colonial watering hole, particularly with the verandah at the back.
Average Pride, slightly better Doombar, but both served too cold.
Young friendly staff, with the exception of some tall shaven headed Irish guy, who seemed to be giving a punter a hard time for no apparent reason.
The saving grace of the place is the decent beer garden at the back. Yes, it�s annoying that it closes at 10.00pm, but given the closeness of surrounding housing it would be churlish to argue.
A reasonable community local, but could be so much better. An opportunity lost.
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Pretenious overpriced "food pub" (as it calls itself). Below average and overpriced food, rude and incompetent staff who think the place is the best thing since sliced bread, overpriced drinks. Avoid it.
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The Eagle used to be the best pub in W12 in the 80's when Eamon and Sarah used to run it. The pub went down hill from there, not too sure how much worse it can get. Bring back the traditional london pub with curtains, stained glass and a welcoming atmosphere.
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Big plus point: enormous garden, with a covered areas with heaters that *work*! Also the staff seem nice. The interior is a good size too.
I really didn't like the refurb though - it now looks more like an All Bar One inside, and as somebody else said it's much too bright. Take any comments about the decor written before summer 2008 as being out of date.
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It's rumoured they spent �400,000 on a refurb but it doesn't look too much different. Disappointing un-adventerous choice of continental beers. 3 real ales but �3.30 for a pint of London Pride!! The best pub on Askew Rd. by a country mile, but it could be so much better
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This is no longer a pub.
However it is selling some decent real ales that aren't going off.
Food was pretty good, well the kedgeree needed more salt and a lot less cream but the pork belly sandwich was really good.
Long gone are the days when you could get a pub lunch for under a fiver so pleasantly surprised at seeing most items around �7-8, instead of the �12-15 that seems the norm - roll on the recession eh. And this isn't even a pub either.
Latest revamp gets away from the dingy shadows of the last setup and is colourful. It's been done well.
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A disappointing revamp. Not much has changed except some uber-gentrification (dodgy bookshelf wallpaper). Decent beers and ok atmosphere but lighting is way too bright. Food distinctly average especially for the price - I had lamb shoulder which was a bit like the meat rolls you have in school lunches. Pudding portions microscopic. Staff very nice though. Good luck to them but they need a better chef - feels like they are following the "guide to gastropub" cooking but don't really know what they are doing.
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A pretentious predictable unpleasant continuance of Bush (pub) gentrification. Recently the same mob turned Princess Victoria into the sort of organic gastro over-priced elitist poncehole that Toby Young & Nigella Lawson would favour. Guinness #3.45p eg 55p more the accepted local rate.Beer Garden closed at 10 (why?). Real ales from a swinging #3.10. Service slow and inpersonable.Very crowded on opening Saturday,whereas other locals-such as Sun Inn & Bull & Bush had 15 punters between them. Will doubtlessly do very well,local Tories such as fisheyesformerlyfarright Harry Phibbs, will be well happy,content that the smelly indigent obese Council Estate residents opposite can drink themselves into a stupor indoors.
Promotional card vomit-inducing - @fancy a cheeky chablis after a hard day at the office?@.
If you like community based PUBS with a catholic(i.e. every and anyone welcome) approach please go to friendly ,cheaper Orchard 400 yards,other side further down the road.
anonymous - 1 Sep 2008 02:44 |
A pretentious predictable unpleasant continuance of Bush (pub) gentrification. Recently the same mob turned Princess Victoria into the sort of organic gastro over-priced elitist poncehole that Toby Young & Nigella Lawson would favour. Guinness #3.45p eg 55p more the accepted local rate.Beer Garden closed at 10 (why?). Real ales from a swinging #3.10. Service slow and inpersonable.Very crowded on opening Saturday,whereas other locals-such as Sun Inn & Bull & Bush had 15 punters between them. Will doubtlessly do very well,local Tories such as fisheyesformerlyfarright Harry Phibbs, will be well happy,content that the smelly indigent obese Council Estate residents opposite can drink themselves into a stupor indoors.
Promotional card vomit-inducing - @fancy a cheeky chablis after a hard day at the office?@.
If you like community based PUBS with a catholic(i.e. every and anyone welcome) approach please go to friendly ,cheaper Orchard 400 yards,other side further down the road.
anonymous - 1 Sep 2008 02:43 |
A pleasant surprise of pub. Obviously recently done out and still the right side of quirky rendy. Service was swift and beer drinkable - should be said that although it was a Saturday night, it was empty but that's London in August.
Food looked unpretentious and well priced and generally was reasonably impressed. Do agree that the garden needs a clean up, but is still a very attractive feature.
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During the summer of 2006, the Eagle was a hive of activty, both indoors and in what was once a lovely beer garden. Unfortunately the Eagle has experienced a rapid decline.
The staff are extremely transient - more so than any pub in the area. Compare with the Crown & Sceptre and the Angelsea Arms where the staff have remained for the last year or more. Whatever the problems the staff have working here, it's an issue that needs addressing.
The lovely beer garden is now a digusting mess and has been all year. Cigarettes everywhere and the grass overgrown and patchy.
The Eagle clearly needs a good manager to come and take an interest in the place. Until that happens, it's gradual demise is guaranteed.
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Have the costomers changed any in the past few years??
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Beer drinkers, beware!!
I took my brother to 'The Eagle' on Saturday night, as it is one of my locals and has a nice beer garden for the summer.
I hadn't been there in a while and I was shocked at the change...!
The Bar Staff were uniformly rude and pretentious. One of the female bartenders tried to steal 10 pounds from my brother by insisting that he had only given here a 10 pound note and not a 20. When we approached the manager to rectify the situation, the money was promptly returned.
This has left a really bad vibe with me and I will not be returning.
Oz G
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Nice decor, good service and a lovely beer garden. However, the food was a bit disappointing when a large group of us ate and drank there yesterday.
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This pub has the best quiz in the area on Wednesdays. Quizmaster is Dave (or big Phil) and he writes all his own questions and is very entertaining
Nice food and beers, although pricey. Nicest pub on Askew Road
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Have you got any real ales? I asked over the phone. Uh?
English beer?
Auhhrrrr....
The stuff you get out of hand pumps...
Uhhhrr... I dunno....I'll check...
Well, quite honestly, why the hell are they employing bar staff who have f*** all knowledge about what they are serving? Maybe he needed more than his three and a half minute training course.
In the end, the Eagle did have a couple of real beers - Green King IPA and a summery Wadworths number called Somersault. They also had a few others - German and Belgian bottled beer - available at prices you'd need a second mortage to afford. Otherwise, this place is pretty nice but considering how big it is lacks seating. However,it does have a huge beer garden - so worth a visit when there's some sunshine.
Just don't ask one of the bar staff complicated questions.....the guy's probably still learning his own name.
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What happened to my old local? What was once a good sports-orientated pub (pool,darts, footy on TV) that served good (and cheap) beer has been bought out to form yet another overpriced, pretentious, soulless bar that I will not be going back to.
anonymous - 3 Apr 2006 13:55 |
Atmosphere varies season to season. Summer has a bizarre combination of Walkabout refugees (think singlets and "thongs")and local yummy mummies and offspring. Get there early on a Sunday if you want a seat outside. Winter is mostly just locals, but definitely not a party crowd. I've always found the staff friendly. The lady with the brightly coloured hair (the manager I think) is lovely. Probably a tad overpriced for what it is.
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Great atmoshpere, great service, good value and a much better crowd and atmosphere than there used to be.
Was here the other day with a bunch of friends and will definitely return for more.
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Have been fairly regularly in past year, very nice interior, if a little dark, great spacious beer garden, food is very good, though attention to those overhard potatoes would be nice. music on friday is kept to a civil 'talk-through level'
Sadly on my last visit when I took an old friend for sunday lunch we were let down by a barman who clearly thought he was too good to provide any sort of service and soured my impression, it's like you work in a pub mate, nothing wrong with that but if you don't like it, don't take it out on your customers.
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I'd heard the place had been done up and so ventured in. Excellent range of beers including my favourite Dutch draught De Konick. Also a weissbeer and other continentel European lagers on draught. Only Adnams on in the real ale line and beginning to go off.
Friendly staff.
Big garden at the back that would benefit from screening the houses behind in some neighbour-friendly way. The ants are a problem.
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What a waste of time a visit to this pub was. �2.80 for a pint of bland carton orange juice served by a very rude, very miserable barman. Wine served in horrible cheap glasses and a depressing veranda in desperate need of a lick of paint. And the atmosphere? Zero. No wonder all the staff looked fed up.
anonymous - 3 May 2005 12:04 |
Visited this pub a couple of times and really enjoyed it. Good quality wine, nice food and the staff were friendly, but visited it again a few Sundays ago in the late afternoon and it was absolutely packed, which is OK, but there were kids running everywhere and rolling around the floor! plus the Sunday Roast was a bit of a disappointment.
anonymous - 27 Apr 2005 16:08 |
used to be a right dump .. you wouldnt be sure of your life in the place.. but now its great since the makeover .. foods nice adn a nicer class of people.
Caroline - 11 Oct 2004 16:08 |
I hadn't been here for years but when I heard that it was under new management I thought I'd take a look. To my surprise, the place has quite literally transformed! The pub has been given a cracking makeover, boasting an impressive mix of classic pub and contemporary furnishings. Whoever re-designed this place has managed to retain the pub's traditional character whilst bringing in line with the 21st century.
The interior really is looking great, with an impressive wood-panelled bar dominating the central space. The pub has an extensive range of seating; I went with my mates but I did clock a few quiet corners ideal for couples seeking intimate conversation (check out the secret alcove in the right-hand side of the pub - the perfect romantic hideaway). A combination of low-level sofas, upholstered armchairs and wooden stools gave the place a cosy living room feel, which was enhanced by soft spotlights and candles.
I was also impressed by the quality of drinks on offer, with a selection of continental beers and lagers, Hoegaarden, Staropramen etc as well as an extensive wine list. The open-plan kitchen serves a variety of light bites. I sampled some wedges with chilli Mayonnaise, which knocked the socks off your usual bar snack. I'll certainly be going back for a more substantial meal (lamb shank with mixed herb mash and gravy, caught my gastro-eye). I also noticed that traditional Sunday roasts, including a vegetarian option, are served on the weekends.
The icing on this pub's cake however, must be its revamped rear terrace area. It's complete with magnificent cast iron railings and giant Victorian lanterns. The garden is huge and reminded me of an English country garden (not bad for the London!).
rhys - 1 Oct 2004 17:09 |
I am not that sure that this pub should be recommended, it used to be appalling and as they had done it up i decided ot venture inside. The deco had been changed slightly, the prices had gone up extaordinarily high and the ant infestation was sitll very much to be seen inthe garden, this was slightly worrying as they have lots of rugs on hte grass for people to sit on but looking closely hte decking was a sea of ants and so were they tables and chairs, i will never go inthere again. close pubs are cafe med, the thatched houes, askew arms, connigham arms, the orchard
matthew - 23 Jun 2004 21:10 |
Since its May 2004 Gastro-pub makeover, this has got to be the best pub in the Bush. Nice decor, a good choice of beers including real ale and Belgium wheat and fruit beers, a proper beer garden (with grass and everything!!) and food that rises above the usual pub grub whilst remaining reasonably prices (everything under a tenner).
Steveo - 30 May 2004 19:25 |
GREAT PUB DURING WORLD WAR TWO
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Laqrge locals pub. Formerly called 'Lady of the Lake' (very rare) Massive proper beer garden with trees and grass. Good priced pints mostly �2.15. Black leather 3 sofa & arm chairs. Apparently Boy George is doing a slot on New Years Eve(?)
Tim - 9 Dec 2003 13:38 |
