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This is a great little pub with an interesting array of clientele. The bar staff are friendly and helpful and the locals are fun to be around.
Great variety of beverages and a fantastic jukebox.
Thoroughly recommended.
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A great little pub with a friendly landlord , a pleasant jukebox , attractive barmaids and real ale , the Adnams Broadside was superb .
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Maybe Rich should stay in the Garden ladder or Palmers Green.
This is a no frills pub with memorabilia all over the ceilings and walls old wooden casks above the bar ,
there are three lovely ladies serving behind the bar
occasionally you will find the landlord behind the bar.
Not once have I ever felt threatened in there by eyes or scotsman fighting with their lady friends.
maybe Rich it was you staring at people that you felt threatened or maybe just your own paranoia.
I feel the Garden Ladder must feel really threatened when they have to recruit "punters" to rubbish the competition.
The Old Ale has a great atmoshere on most nights I have been in there, even though its it in the middle of a refurbishment.
The Ales are good, changing more often as its now become a freehouse.
Still no plans to serve food there yet.
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Maybe Rich should stay in the Garden ladder or Palmers Green.
This is a no frills pub with memorabilia all over the ceilings and walls old wooden casks above the bar ,
there are three lovely ladies serving behind the bar
occasionally you will find the landlord behind the bar.
Not once have I ever felt threatened in there by eyes or scotsman fighting with their lady friends.
maybe Rich it was you staring at people that you felt threatened or maybe just your own paranoia.
I feel the Garden Ladder must feel really threatened when they have to recruit "punters" to rubbish the competition.
The Old Ale has a great atmoshere on most nights I have been in there, even though its it in the middle of a refurbishment.
The Ales are good, changing more often as its now become a freehouse.
Still no plans to serve food there yet.
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Maybe Rich should stay in the Garden ladder or Palmers Green.
This is a no frills pub with memorabilia all over the ceilings and walls old wooden casks above the bar ,
there are three lovely ladies serving behind the bar
occasionally you will find the landlord behind the bar.
Not once have I ever felt threatened in there by eyes or scotsman fighting with their lady friends.
maybe Rich it was you staring at people that you felt threatened or maybe just your own paranoia.
I feel the Garden Ladder must feel really threatened when they have to recruit "punters" to rubbish the competition.
The Old Ale has a great atmoshere on most nights I have been in there, even though its it in the middle of a refurbishment.
The Ales are good, changing more often as its now become a freehouse.
Still no plans to serve food there yet.
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I've only been in here twice as I more regularly use pubs in Palmer's Green or the Garden Ladder.
However, the two times I've been in I have to say I was dissapointed. I was told by a friend that this pub was a traditional "no frills" London boozer, not much to it but a good atmosphere.
Oh, I was to be disappointed. Every where I looked there seemed to be threatening eyes looking at me. The Man behind the bar seemed in a bad mood and seemed to be upset at me when I asked for his attention to get a drink. Imagine that, a punter asking to get served in a bar!
Then, an angry, drunken, Scotsman sitting at the bar had a loud bust up with his lady friend. I made the mistake of looking over when this happend, and he starts shouting "what am I looking at?".
I could understand that. When drink is taken and after an argument it's easy to blow up at someone. Forgive him, I told myself. However, later on in the week when I was in, he sat at the bar staring at me. He then proceeded to start shouting at some other guy in the bar and offering him outside for a fight. I fixed my eyes upon the TV again, quickly finished my drink and left, never to return again. This guy seems to be the pub bully.
If you want bad service and an angry Scotch man threatening you, this is the place to be!
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Proper pub, no fancy dancy! Becks Vier on tap, Celtic and Liverpool on the telly, good laugh with the regulars, especially the Scottish lads!!
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The Last two saturday nights I have visited this pub it has been filled with people and music
The lagers are clean and crisp, the ales of which there are four again including just lately, crop circle, Landlord, London Pride and Broadside are clean and clear.
The addition of 8 tables with chairs outside are a welcome view on Greenlanes it gives a European look and feeling to the place.
people congregate outside forming little groups who chat and drink
The staff are excellent and keep it a relaxed place to drink
Compared to the other pubs in greenlanes it seems to be the place to be with regular customers and a mix of others
The only problem is it closes at 11pm which I am assured will be changing shortly
The pub needs no gimmicks to attract people, it is what it is a traditional local pub
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So this might not be the most antiseptic pub in London. BUT - the beer is always good, Pride, Pedigree and Adnams Broadside on Sunday, always a friendly laid back atmosphere and the bar staff are cheerful and effecient. Nothing wrong with this place at all.
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i give my vote to this bar for the most disgusting bar in London......big fat 0/10....
anonymous - 6 Aug 2007 21:51 |
Best pub along Green Lanes. Bar staff are friendly and helpful, the owners are very nice. Prices are very reasonable. Great laugh when you get to know the regulars.
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best pub around good drink three great real ales landlady and landlord very nice pleople could do with more pleople in,staff very nice do anything for you highly recommended
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MAD bar staff? Have they changed then? I visited once having read the comments on here. Yes it's old, yes it's grotty, the bar staff looked like they couldn't give a monkey's and the customers were nothing out of the ordinary - groups of friends getting pissed - not noticeably friendly to anyone outside their group. It's ok for a pint on the way past I suppose. We went there for the evening and left after a second pint *yawn*
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come all you unicyclists and jugglers! put it like this -- they have a sign in there, saying ``beware, mad bar staff!'` crazy.
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Grotty. Grand Parade lacks a decent boozer still.
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i like the old ale it is a really friendly pub. It is really good when there is karaoke in there the place is buzzin then
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Arguably the best pub name i can think of. It has no old ales. It has lots of empty casks on display; but no full full ones behind the bar - just the usual brand crap. Decors great locations spot on. It has no old ales. Feels very much like it was destined for greater things.
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Quite small and can get very crowded, but a very frendly place and people, plus they show the rugby which is very unusual around here
Bleach - 23 Jun 2004 21:17 |
Bit of a let down. This was my local for a bit and it has the potential to be a great old-school ale pub, it looks great inside and out and the people are friendly enough, but the big screen football sessions and the hordes that they sometimes attract just don't go with the environment and in at least 70% of cases, don't seem to go with the customers either.
Mel - 2 Feb 2004 00:52 |
This is a small, and hence very smoky pub that I have been in a few times to catch some football. They seem to have their share of regulars and are usually busy, but I can't understand why.
Mike - 14 Jan 2004 16:43 |
