please note - reviews on this site are purely the opinion of site visitors, so don't take them too seriously.
Visited today, a Sunday afternoon. Standard Wetherspoons, large drinking area upstairs. They were having a local beer festival so in addition to the usual suspects they had Pilgrim, Twickenham, W J King and Weltons beers.
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The atmosphere is loud and very abusive, But the food is incredible...i love the food, but i would never come here in the evening, last time i went in the evening, i would of got my head smashed in by these drunk, drugged up girls who were giving me and my mate hassle in the toilets, thankgod I did not stick around.
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a great pub if you love the aroma of rotting piss, or enjoy the feeling of glass being thrust into your eye. really, the only advantage of this pleb-magnet is the cheap prices. the bar staff are slow and bumbling. ales were horrific at best, the ciders were sold out.
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Almost got glassed as someone took objection to the trousers my friend was wearing... the bouncer was very helpful and watched us try to reason with man from his position on the door.
There are so many nicer places to go in Kingston along the river side and around the market place.
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Sad about the smoking ban.As soon as you walk through the door all you can smell is piss and sweaty armpits (toilets smell fresher) Will not be going back. God knows what the foods like didn't see 1 person eating and that was sunday about 4ish
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Doormen on a Monday (Bank Hol) eve, carding everybody - even those plainly old enough to have sons and daughters over 18, never mind themselves being. However the beer range was ok and there was even A over T - 9% and available in pints. Which mightn't be the best idea.
anonymous - 1 Sep 2007 19:10 |
SHOCKING, went on a saturday afternoon so it wasn't busy at all. ordered some grub, 2 burgers, simply really. 10 mins i was told. 45 mins later i was curious. went to teh bar and explained. it'll be 5 mins i was told(50mins to cook a burger). 5 mins later bar staff comes back, "what did u order again?" a fcukin burger mate!! by now 55 mins had gone, i demeanded my money back and went elsewhere, thanks for the free drink that was part of the deal tho!! haha
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Rubbish, you WILL not get served in under 45 minutes unless you are a buxom blonde with a very low cut top, of which I am not! During the week, the lower level has good selection of real beer (none of this lager crap!) avoid if you want decent service on a friday night
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Didnt realise this was a Lloyds bar now, doesnt seem to be any improvement made!
As usual, good for cheap drinks but the people are nothing special and its cramped. Have a few before the clubs and then move on out!
Jo984 - 28 Sep 2006 10:42 |
I used to like this pub when it was a bog-standard Wetherspoons. I normally like Lloyds Number One for their cheap beer and music. But after popping in here on a Friday night recently to wait for a friend, never again! Some bloke at the bar took 5 minutes to remember his pin number, then dropped pills all over the ground, there was a fight in the toilets and the entire place felt like a Mecca for Burberry and cheap jewellery. Avoid, and try the new Wetherspoons in Raynes Park when it opens...
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LLoyds rather
Will2 - 12 Jul 2006 17:51 |
Even more crowded than most Wetherspoons
Will2 - 12 Jul 2006 17:51 |
Ok during the day when it is relatively quiet and you can actually sit down somewhere! However food takes forever - waited nearly an hour for it to arrive! Horrible at weekends as it is so busy it's hard to get past the doors even. Staff are nice and usually can get served quickly at the bar.
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I've been to this pub a few times and enjoyed watching the fights between Ben Sherman wearing teenagers that's always on offer. If you're really lucky you can watch a cat fight between a couple of strappy shoed slappers too.
anonymous - 7 Apr 2006 08:02 |
BRILLIANT PUB, BUZZING, WICKED MUSIC. ONLY DOWN SIDE IS THAT IT IS A TOTAL DICK FEST.BUT THE TEN BIRDS THAT WERE THERE WERE GOURGEOUS AND UP FOR IT.
THE BEER IS BRILLIANT AND CHEAP.
BAR STAFF VERY FRIENDLY.
anonymous - 16 Feb 2006 12:21 |
More of a nursery than a pub considering the average age of the punter. This place exists solely as a gathering point for teenagers to get pissed up prior to heading over to Oceana. The younger ones who figure they won't get let in though get tanked up early on and a fight's never too far away as a result. All in all not vastly different from any suburban JDWs.
anonymous - 7 Feb 2006 17:10 |
I'm going to defend this pub, which is much maligned but I find it ultra-reliable, with a good range of cheap beers, regular promotions, festivals and so on, and an unbeatable Thursday night curry. OK, there's loads of kids there on Friday and Saturday and when there's a cheap night on at Oceana, but what do you expect? It's right opposite one of the biggest nightclubs in south-west London! At other times it's generally quiet, clean, comfortable, there's masses of room so you can get away from any large groups, and if you enjoy people-watching it's fun observing the kids and their mating rituals. Plus if you're a guy there's a very high quotient of attractive females to please the eye.
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Now Lloyd's No 1. Was there on Saturday for a swift couple of pints (which were tasty, admittedly). It's hard to regret change in such a hole but even a quiet chat is now impossible due to the loud music.
anonymous - 23 Jan 2006 09:02 |
Worse even than the average 'spoons. Complete pit. Cheap, though. I'd reccomend the Coronation Hall in Surbiton if you're looking for a much nicer 'spoons. Still not that great though.
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Rumors abound that this may be rebranded a Lloyds No1. That is JDWs clubby bar type chain.
Could be an Improvement, but sometimes it feel as if a bus lost control at the lights and smashed into it, it would be an improvement!
It is OK, I'm not totaly sure about some of the door staff, they seem to have slipped up a couple of times, and with the regular clinetel the need to be up to seriously on the ball.
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TOOK ME OVER HALF AN HOUR TO GET SERVED AND THE BEER IS TERRIBLE AND THE GLASSES DIRTY. FULL OF KIDS AND CANNOT MOVE. NICE IN THE DAYTIME FOR A MEAL.
anonymous - 18 Nov 2005 21:18 |
Nice pub lunchtimes and some weekdays evenings, but avoid Friday and Saturday night like the plague when the average age barely reaches 20 and it noisy and uncomfortable. The range and quality of beers have decreased considerably over the past year. When I ordered food found service unhelpful and chef could not microwave, overcooked.
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Poor Poor & Poor
If you are over 21 avoid this place on weekends - its a nightmare, full of stuck up dressed up little daddys boys and girls.
Go to Barcadia next door - much better
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Characterless modern-looking pub, but large no-smoking area, good food and very cheap ales. Handy for Kingston shops.
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Takes to long for a drink but its cheap and easy to check out the que for oceana.
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Dismal, huge, charmless pikemungusly chavtastic. But un-walk-past-ably cheap. Very poor service, and drinkers who know no etiquette of queuing for attention. Non smoking section which reeks of smoke.
But come on, a curry, poppadoms, chutney, nan bread and a pint of just this side of drinkable lager for a fiver?
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Huge Wetherspoons (with all that implies) that gets rammed just before 10pm when all the youths have a cheap drink before going into Oceana.
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agree with sharpe... but please remember it is afterall a wetherspoons.
If you know of one that is anything else than a cheap souless pub then point me in the dircetion of it!!!
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The only good things about this pub is the females and the beer.... (if you're male) Great for pulling only ask for ID if you are taking a female/male home. Bring your body armor.
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Dirty, smelly, overcrowded on a weekend, 16year olds. V. depressing..but then again its a wetherspoons and very cheap...so whaddya expect ay?
amumd - 10 Feb 2005 15:02 |
Arguably the worst pub in the south of england. Sure it may be cheap but £1.70 for gassy ashwater doesnt add up.
Souless, Pikey, Rubbish.
But on the plus side they do nice food
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Nice during the day, don't even bother at night! - not without your riot shield anyway! Typical JDW, decent beer and food at very decent prices.Staff quite friendly too!
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A good old weatherspoons, cant fault em IMO
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good value for lunches, but not even cheap beer could tempt me into this crowded soul-less cesspit for fighting teenagers in the evening. You can't even get into the loo for the amount of girls passed out/fighting/crying/puking or a combination of all of the above
patsy - 17 Dec 2004 16:05 |
Terrible they hardly have any food they never have what you would like there excuse was it was frozen,this pub could do with a Refurbishment
Bob - 3 Oct 2004 12:37 |
weird mix of hardened trampy drinkers and schoolchildren, often go there and then remember why i don't want to go there, is a shame, I don't know why its so bad- big bar, nice venue. I guess the 15 year old kids get in the way a bit. Not worried about the female on your own bit, i reckon you're as safe as anywhere. Takes at least a year to be served on a busy eve. But you wouldn't want to be there on a busy eve....
Jane - 17 Aug 2004 12:29 |
Appalling Pub.... Avoid like the plague. Beer is generally kept in an O.K.ish condition but the atmosphere,regulars and fittings/fixtures are positively vile. Only thing this pit is good for is that everyone knows where it is i.e. somewhere to meet and then leave.
If you go in here, run while you still can!
Tom - 9 Jul 2004 16:42 |
The fact that the drinks are cheap is the only thing going for the Tun. Otherwise it's skanky and horrible (as are the customers) and I avoid it at all costs.
nene - 4 Jul 2004 18:32 |
The place is tragic-takes ages to get served -expecially if ur female as the majority of bar staff are girls-watch out if ur remotely attractive as ur either be asked for i.d,or blatently ignored. there are also no seats and the atmosphere is not like that of other 'decent' pubs in kingston..seriously go sumwhere else even if it is slightly more expensive. :)
J - 27 Jun 2004 19:37 |
I cannot for the life of me understand why I have been in this place so often apart from the fact to meet people and move on to other places ... I think their have been two occassions where I have suggested the Tun and both times regreted it ... i'd rather pay the price of an expensive pint if I can breathe and sit down when I want to and not feel like im in some school canteen
Danny - 13 Jun 2004 05:39 |
The Tun is the perfect pub to go to before going on to Oceana/McCluskeys etc. We only ever meet for a quick few drinks as they're so cheap but would never spend a whole night in there! Odd bods during the week who look like they've been living on a park bench for a year. If you're a girl NEVER be there alone waiting for people etc!!!
Francesca - 24 May 2004 21:36 |
Very smokey atmosphere, upstairs and down, not really suitiable for eating a meal in comfort. but I will return on quite evenings for the cheap beer and good food. Oh! yes I know there is a no smoking area, but that always full when I arrive.
Jack Clinton - 1 May 2004 16:08 |
Cheap, Surely that is all that matters...when your a student, your skint, and you want to get lashed, where else you gonna go? I rate this paub a solid 11/10
Ozzy B - 18 Apr 2004 12:39 |
They seem to have a shortage of chairs in this pub, loads of empty tabels but not enough chairs - please sort this out!
Drinks are cheep, but lacks atmosphere! So just drink the cheep drinks then go clubbing!! .. thats a plan!
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This is my local pub and they serve good guest beer and they are the cheepest pub in Kingston and they also have 5 guest beers on. The bar staff are really quick to serve the customers. Keep up the good work the staff at The Kings Tun.
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Good for before one of the clubs. If you don't like the age of the clientele, drink elsewhere, there's plenty more pubs in Kingston that serve real ale.
jono - 15 Feb 2004 00:11 |
Wetherspoon's = beer, innit?
I'm sorry to say it does not.
Oh no.
Umpteen (or is that twelvety?) pumps and no beer ("John Smith's Smooth, sir?" - f*** ***).
Without cheap real ale, there's no reason at all for entering the place.
DeviousDave - 5 Feb 2004 15:30 |
Kerry I know exactly where your coming from as I used to be a manager of the Weatherspoons pub In leatherhead, but I have to say The Kings Tun is not the worst I've been to. 4/10
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1 up from the Litten tree, again full of our favourite kappa pikeys, only it's cheap, hence why they all go in there before they trundle off for a fight in the Works. losers, leave them in their crappy pub.
Scotty Boy - 13 Jan 2004 13:21 |
Went on Christmas eve, suprised as they were playing music, not a dj but just music from a music tv channel! Really wierd as the adverts then came up and were played really loud? Usual stuff happening there though, cant get a drink as huge que at the bar, kids in abundance, I swear one couldnt have been older 13! If u going there fri/sat, go early and get out.
Mr Vincent Mancini - 11 Jan 2004 22:40 |
what can i say. a bunch of twats all under 20 getting drunk. fights between the sort of guys who say "are you looking at my bird cunt!".
Just read through the sort of comments that are written and if you have any sense, you will realise you don't want to be near these puppies.
Jimmy - 9 Dec 2003 10:59 |
Had teh misfortune to go there on New Year's Eve for half an hour last year. Not been since. Food and drink cheap - might be excusable by day, but avoid like the plague after nightfall. Go next door to Barcadia if you don't want to be violated.
Stephen - 25 Nov 2003 17:28 |
Ok for a quiet post shopping drink or for meeting people and moving on. Cheep as chips what more can you say??
Alex - 31 Oct 2003 11:02 |
Another offending pub in the trend to have not enough bar staff on, as a result, it take forever to get served.
Its cheep + just across the road from a night club = trouble
Its too crowded evenings and weekends.
One likes a pint, not a scrum in the evening.
Doormen should be a tad more 'discriminating' but seem to favour those interested in bulk buying (if you get my drift)
jon-paul - 24 Oct 2003 16:02 |
Yes I have to agree the place is a dump and the toilets are prone to young men smearing faeces on the wall, which tells you a lot about the kind of clientele it attracts
thetruth - 6 Oct 2003 15:04 |
does no one understand the bouncers door policy in KUT - if you are 23-25 and in decent clothes - SORRY - but pike dave and his crew all get in with their work trousers (iron by mummy) and work shoes and ben sherman shirts - one word for those bouncers - DISCRETION - but sorry you are all trained monkeys and so probably couldnt exercise it anyway!!
lb - 6 Oct 2003 14:59 |
Well what can you say about the Tun that hasn't already been said! They do good offers, the food is what you'd expect for the price you pay/ It is ideally situated to get completely shit faced before you go on to Oceania.
To those who used to work there and think it's a great place - my question to you... why do you still not work there if it is so "Great"???
The place is a dump, but the drinks are very cheap. All they need are extra staff (that, of course, the brewery won't pay for as it will affect profits) and a damn good clean of the place and then it may not be so bad!
Avoid the place in the evenings, to many too young!!
Dave SD - 22 Sep 2003 13:45 |
It took 25 minutes to be served on saturday night..... Dirty glasses and ash trays were not cleared in the hour we were there. Avoid at the weekends. During the day the service is ok, and the food is fairly priced.
John - 22 Sep 2003 13:22 |
Rude, arragant staff, got a load of twats in there not classy at all it is convinient and the sausage and chiips and beans is good. But go in the evening different place I got asked for ID when I am 24 and saw a load of pikey lads who were 12 or something with their white caps, trainers and bling bling on and thought what a cheek!
jay - 30 Jun 2003 13:31 |
Right, I used to work in this pub and i have to say although we do our fair share of complaining too (believe me!) i feel the need to stand up for it. Maybe its not exactly the classiest place in town but no one is forcing any one in there and it cant be that bad considering the amount of people in there on the weekends and student nights. look at it from the staffs point of view, we could get 5 deep on a busy night and thats a lot of people considering the downstairs bar alone is about 20 feet long. We had a really hard job trying to serve all these people and i can just tell that every person on this page bitching about the place was one of those rude annoying customers who finds faults with everything and insists on continuing to pester the bar maids with, "when your ready, love." All Im saying is that yes there are your fare share of ikeys there but if their over age their over age and we did our best to ID everyone, sometimes its just not possible and u have to use your intuition. So if you dont like it dont go there but at least have the respect to keep your insults to yourself unless its constructive criticism.Thanks.
anonymous - 18 Jun 2003 18:54 |
The only purpose of this place is to get bevved up on cheep booze, or meet some friends.
Actualy, you might as well meet at the spirits shelf in the SOMERFIELD a few shops down.
Also, why when there are about a thousand 12 year olds in there every day, do they ID me? IT'S A HOLE (but compared to the shitten tree, it's heaven)
David - 28 Apr 2003 16:16 |
The tun is a good pre- club place to go as obviously cheap drinks and grest place to meet up wit everyone and chat then go on to wherever but it does get pretty crowded and i hate it wen u gotta wait at the bar fro about 20 minutes so buy drinks in bulk!
anonymous - 23 Apr 2003 16:13 |
The Kings Tun (A true love story)
Enjoyed a drink
And met a girl,
Dated her
And then I fell,
In love with her
For a while,
She was great
And made me smile,
But time went on
And things went bad,
She broke my heart
And made me sad,
I miss her much
But always know,
If I want to see her
The Tun I go...
anonymous - 11 Apr 2003 14:32 |
I'm indefferent to this pub really, it's just your average wetherspoons, I've been there a good 10 or so times, its the first pub I go to if I'm in Kingston and fancy a drink. The atmosphere seems fine to me, the only bad words I'll say is the lack of music isn't good. And I ate there the other day and the food was quite awful, but I've eaten there before that and it's been fine. Overall it's just your average pub, I don't mind going there, but I wouldn't go out of my way specifically to drink there.
Wulfy - 29 Mar 2003 13:13 |
Horrible pub. The beer is filthy and the size of the place (coupled with the lack of music) means it has absolutely no atmosphere.
Angus - 19 Mar 2003 10:23 |
I used to go there alot but there were alot of losers there but there are some fit blokes of corse and its alcohol arent that expensive. But i had a fight in there and im never allowed back in there. The thing i dont really like bout it is that theres no music and it always gets overley packed
Whateva - 7 Mar 2003 15:30 |
Standard Wetherspoons fare here, beer and food fine.
Nige - 26 Jan 2003 21:17 |
The only one not talking a load of bull is "tom",how old are you lot??.The Kings tun is a busy pub,but it is not full of "power drinkers" or trouble for that matter,I have been using the Tun for about a year now, and in all that time I have only ever seen a couple of problems, the door staff have allways delt with the problems in a profesional manner.The staff and managment have a very difficult job,and all things considerd are very helpfull and polite.I want to recomend the Tun to all that read this,a great place to start the evening,cheap,lively,and a great place to meet people.(to the editor of this page you photo is very out of date!!)anyone under 50,if you have the slightest bit of fun or youth in you bones then you should hsve a good time..
M..D.. - 14 Jan 2003 01:22 |
I’m afraid I must strongly disagree with some of the above comments, This pub has changed a lot during 2002 & has become a pub I really enjoy drinking in (& no I not a drunken (Alex Halpin above)). They have taken on a number of new managers. I have had no complaints with the food. The Non Music can be strange a first but that’s only because some people have forgotten the key past time of communication! Chat to people… Go on, try it you might like it! A great pub to meet up with old friends. As for trouble (as commented above by Mike! – diewoodpecker@hotmail.com What ever!) I have found it to be dealt with in a fast & very professional way, by both the doormen & managers. My suggestion to anyone has been there & was not keen or hasn’t been there before is… come on down! P.S. Mike haven’t you learnt that you can call a bouncer a doorman but you should never call a doorman a bouncer!!!
Tom - 13 Jan 2003 16:11 |
personaly i hate the place with a passion the
way it packs out with silly alcoholicly iduced
losers of ever concevable age who go there
simply for the cheep beer.
if people are gonna be like that then they may
as well go to the off-licence and get drunk in
some park somewhere as the atmosphere is
about the same. no music no felling just drunks
and more drunks. Only good thing to say is that
me girlfriend used to work there & i loved nothing
better than taking the piss.
alex halpin (the lot) - 1 Dec 2002 14:17 |
awful boozer - only good for a pre-club drink (as vodka etc much cheaper here) - food despite part of a chain isn't much like the others - loads of old people smoking great cigars everywhere
simon - 30 Sep 2002 14:03 |
This is by far the dirtiest Wetherpoons I have ever visited, although to be fair this has improved during 2002. I guess it's not suprising due to the hundreds and hundreds of horrible little scrotes that pile in each Friday and Saturday, earning this pub my coveted award "Britain's Most Belligerent Boozer 2002". You also get plenty of Wethertramps, you know the sort, who appear to have been stapled to their seats since the pub opened in 1996.
Loz - 8 Aug 2002 20:05 |
needs music
and watch it on a friday and saturday night - whatver you do leave before 10:30 or trouble starts
and get there before 7:00 which is when the bouncers arrive
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Cheap. Fast Food. Power drinkers. Trouble.
Z - 27 Jul 2002 21:03 |
