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Lovely Sam Smiths pub, wide range of SS beers, great location. A few too many meeja types, but its still good here.
Zagreb is right though - landlord has a face like a smacked arse: really awful, swearing and muttering under his breath when someone (customer and/or staff) doesn't meet his apparently very high standards.
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A nice Sam Smith's pub tucked away in Marylebone. I've enjoyed a decent pint and a friendly crowd every time I've popped in on the way home from work.
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Nice Interior, beer was lousy last night, one pint of bitter & I cleared off to find somewhere else, shame really coz I usually like Sam Smiths, & I have had better here.
We should keep this a secret, because if it gets too busy, too often the locals might get a petition up to close it as it is in a very quiet Mews.
Landlord looked such a miserable F*** that it made me feel much better being on call and only able to have the one.
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Brilliant pub, well off the beaten track but worth finding as it's in a mews.
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Nice pub with well kept and served beers. The beer is cheap and the location central. Inside of pub is not remarkable but plenty of room and a traffic less street outside. Beer is served at its best even if the £1.78 bitter is not my cup of tea.
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Having moved into the area a few months ago have tried most of the local pubs and decided this is the favourite. Well kept pint of Old Brewery - and as for all the Sam Smiths pubs at an amazing price (£1.78 at present) for London. Same 2 barmen always seem to be working when we go in which is great as so many of the pubs turnover barstaff so quickly. Shame they are not allowed seating outside - I wonder if the smoking ban will hit them?
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A great pub to go on a saturday night, an iteresting group at the bar especially a fab eastender with a walking stick , think he was called bob . An excellant barman good service, wonderful to find taddy porter and imperial stout.
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cracking pub - get's packed on a friday night - get down early to get a seat. Price of a pint is fab and you can easily afford a kebab on the way home after a night out here. Bar staff good - bit of a small bar bearing in mind how busy it can get. Toilets are ok. Location is a little bit funny to find - but once you have found it - it's worth remembering it.
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Beer: Good, well kept - Sam Smiths, which I guess is OK if you like their offerings.
Food: Hearty, old school and reasonably priced - no overpriced gastro-style nonsense in evidence.
Ambiance: Safe and reasonably friendly - decent mix of clientele.
Bogs: clean and well equipped.
A decent and genuine local boozer. Very definitely a pub that serves food rather than a restaurant that serves beer, which is becoming all too prevalent.
Being off the beaten track saves it from a lot of the ills that befalls other pubs in the area.
I enjoyed my recent evening there and would return without hesitation.
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A deservedly popular pub in a Mews just off Cavendish Street. Always decent bar staff.
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Great little pub hidden away down a side mews, but only a stone's throw from Oxford Circus. Manages to get packed on weekday evenings, particularly around the time workers are leaving offices, but quietens down later, and is quite peaceful on Saturday evenings. A Sam Smith's pub, with all their usual beer. Not a massive fan of OBB, but the stout is spot on, and they have a great selection of bottled beers. Nice atmosphere, with two rooms, so the pub is bigger than it looks from the outside. Conclusion: an excellent pub, unforgiveable to miss it.
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Nice pub, attentive staff and a good mix of clientele - fortunately on my visit the braying media types were coming and going on a regular basis so the more mellow longer-staying visitors like myself weren't subject to over the top mobile phone calls for long.
Big enough to get a group of friends together in and not as difficult to find as some people have suggested.
Probably the pick of the Sam Smiths pubs in the area, if that's not damning it with faint praise.
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Not been in for a while, but a definite gem if it's not changed radically over the last year or so since I last drank here. Even enjoying a standing pint outside, you feel well away from the hordes, so hidden is the place.
Now having been reminded of its existence from its addition to BITE, I've promised myself another visit soon. You should do the same!
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One of my favourite boozers and always pop in for a pint on rare excursions into town. How can somewhere this good be in the middle of such a terrible city for pubs? Mystical forces must be at play. Even the beer is cheap.
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Lovely little backwater on cobbled Mews. Cheap Sam Smiths and hearty pub grub. Great on a Friday lunchtime. Lot of suits come in here, but only to be expected. Nice to sit outside on "road" and not be run over.
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Loved this pub. I totally agree about the country feel, tucked away from the main chaos. The barman was charming and really quite witty (and he was only 18!). We couldn't have had a better starting point for our Sam Smiths crawl. It did however set a very high standard to which some 'Smith's' in the area fell short.
It was pretty quiet being a saturday in an area that is soooooo busy in the week but the atmosphere was still welcoming and you couldn't help noticing how lovely and clean it was. A well looked after pub.
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Occassionally I go out of my way to visit this pub on the way home, I just feel drawn to it, I liken it to a country pub, lovely atmosphere, charming local characters, a nice pint of Old Brewery Bitter and relax after a hard day at work.
It is quite small and tucked away definitely worth a visit, but beware I think you will find it packed to the rafters at 6pm on a Friday evening.
Ginja - 17 May 2005 18:10 |
A Sam Smith's pub.
I love finding hidden pubs and the Castle is definitely tucked away. A quiet, quality little place. If I didn't have a job I would spend every afternoon there with a pint and a book.
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*note Nigger should be bigger - keyboard it broken*
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Nigger than it looks from the outside, a lovely pub, medium sized but maintains a small pub atmosphere - really nice - a good sam smiths pub but with no sovreign best on tap unfortunatly - the backroom is particularly nice and it is quite enough to sit in on a week day afternoon and get some work done at the same time - the steak sandwichs are particularly good. not the best kind of a pub for the whole night but very good for a first drink a swift half or a good lunch.
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Love it one of the best kept secrets in London. Food is wonderfull, beer is great.
Jimmy the K - 24 Sep 2004 13:48 |
You wouldn't know this pub was here - Down a little backstreet.
A nice surprise, Sam Smiths so is great beer, out of the way so no dodgy punters.
TheGP - 21 Sep 2004 13:56 |
A hidden gem - medium sized pub in a back street - I think I would kill to live a stumbling distance from a pub like this.
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Approaching from the north the road looks like a back lane, you would not guess that there is a pub down there. Good beer.
Bob - 25 Feb 2004 20:03 |
Well-hidden little Sam Smith's pub - apparently very busy weekday evenings, quiet on Saturdays, closed on Sundays!
Giles - 19 Jan 2004 10:13 |
