please note - reviews on this site are purely the opinion of site visitors, so don't take them too seriously.
Decent selection of beers (as always at Wetherspoon's), ale festivals are fantastic.
The best thing about this one is the large beer garden out the front and back, and the very cheap drinks (compared the nearby pubs which are ridiculously expensive).
The inside is a bit depressing, but if you're sitting out side you don't need to worry about that.
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Its a pub that I enjoyed spending my many underage drinking nights, people that complain about the staff and the atmosphere need to realise that it is a wetherspoons! Look at what the staff have to look at and deal with every day and you wonder why they are miserable!! Its a brilliant place to start a night, and then go on to somewhere else.
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Visited my old stomping grounds for a few days over xmas. Nice to see some things never change. dirty, full of drunks on cheap beer., should be "cheap gin palace on the hill", but they had no gin!!
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Have been here many times with a few local friends. I've found the tables very messy and not cleared up by staff, and don't like the way the beer is always served from the other side of the bar so you can't see what you are being poured. How do you know that Pedigree IS a Pedigree when you can't watch what the staff put in your glass?
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Has a classy sign up outside comparing the costs of the drinks in the Fox with two nearby pubs - the George Canning and the Sun and Doves. In most cases the drinks are 50p+ cheaper. If you want cheap drinks (and that is your only criteria for a pub) come here, if you want a decent pub with convivial surroundings go to the other pubs.
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e came here atfer going the hposital it's up on t/he hill and you can sea it form fart awy; the dirinks here are rarely cheep but it too k us 3o minuetes to get surfed, we sat howt sige wiyh how dog's
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Horrible horrible horrible - only reason to come here is cheap beer. Other pubs - george canning, phoenix - much better if you dont mind paying more than £1.79 a pint
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This used to be a good pub in the 60's but is now simply awful and by far the worst Wetherspoons I've visited.
Terrible service, lousy beer, disgusting toilets.
The food wasn't bad though but I wouldn't go again.
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Terrible service, very slow, incompetent staff (generally, although one or two exceptions). Would say that bar is too big, therefore easy to get people queue jumping. Having said that, is the cheapest pub around by far, round of drinks for 4 people at around £6 is pretty damn good for London... Also, is always quite busy, but never too busy.
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this must be 1 of the worst pubs ever for trying to get a pint .to many people ordering food . never enough staff behind the bar.
anonymous - 2 Jan 2007 23:01 |
as others say not too bad as the wethers pubs go
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I was initially very dubious of visiting the Fox on the Hill when I heard that it was a Wetherspoon's (well, they do invite comparison with McDonald's) but it wasn't too bad. The age of the building even manages to resist complete 'wetherspoonification'. We didn't wait long to be served (a Friday lunchtime) but those following us others did as our barmaid took her time and insisted on repeating everything back to us twcie - once at the point of ordering and once at the point of payment. The interesting looking range of beers went untried as I'd noticed that everyone in the pub was drinking lager. (5/10)
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This place has so much potential but I refuse to queue more than 5 minutes to be served. Lack of experienced staff really lets this place down, theyre eager and willing but in very short supply.
anonymous - 10 Sep 2006 11:21 |
Why ? When you have the Phoenix and George Canning within a few hundred metres why come here
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I like it, a good example of a Weatherspoons pub - always interesting guest ales on at low prices.
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Sorry mate, I meant the Cambria - now that IS in Loughborough Jn
As for the Fox, it's OK but could be better. Clintfurnish is a master of understatement!
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Beer must be good in the Fox - "steveo500" doesn't seem to know which side of Ruskin Park he was!
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how the bloody hell is this in Denmark Hill? sort it out BITE, anything the other side of Ruskin park is Loughborough Jn
think i had a peek in here when somebody was trying to sell me a house in the area - look pretentious as fvck
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Ok, Its not the best pub in England. But this pub use to be really crap. On a saturday night there was 1 old couple and my group and that was it. So not very popular. Then they got a new manager now and the place has got better. You can see the odd member of staff and the place is a lot cleaner. Nice garden and play area. It has definately got better. But I would rather travel the little bit extra and go to Peckham Wetherspoons (Kentish Drovers). Great service, great food and great drink there. But fox on the hill is ok.
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This pub, though resondingly awful holds a special place in my heart as the place where everyone from the 2000 year at KCH and beyond meets up for the annual Paddy's day session. The quality of food has gone downhill, but the pub is big and generally quiet so it is a decent place to go with a large group of friends to avoid the crowds in Camberwell.
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It's a wetherspoons, can't expect too much really. However, I must say it's my mates local and I've been in worse pubs!
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I was visiting Kings hospital yesterday and decided to have lunch in Fox on the Hill - And how wrong was I. The staff were barely existant and rude, the food was cold and I was told I had to wait a half an hour for my meal to be processed again.I decided to go to O'Neills to eat, where I can only say was an absolute pleasure.The food was great and the staff had a pulse!
andrew - 3 Jun 2004 15:25 |
Arghhhhhh, can't understand why everyone is having a go at a pub that has been my local for the past 89 years. Went to the greyhound in the village for my great grandson's (John aka Sam) funeral and it cost me a fortune
pilot - 6 May 2004 01:19 |
Quality of the bee is shite, no wonder its so cheap. if you are into real ales, its worth paying a bit more somewhere else where they go for quality not quanity
thomas - 12 Mar 2004 15:37 |
felt very annoyed with the treatment i recived from the members of staff, and would like head office main contact so i can complain. Advice to others don't bother going a complete dive!!!!
Ms E leary - 29 Feb 2004 19:04 |
Well well well Wetherspoons have really pulled the stops out here. The food's cheaper (and, obviously, better) than Safeways and they may as well pay you to drink the beer it costs so little. However, what you gain in value you lose in, well, everything else. The place is very dull. Average age of punter is 196. Garden in summer is OK with a younger crowd in evidence. Summary: Pop along if you just lost your job and suns out.
Parslow - 19 Jan 2004 17:09 |
