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Well I liked it and the outside is a nice, relatively quiet place to sit. Beer is really good and a good choice.
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A nice pub for the area, four ales on tap, basic but adequate decor and a larger room upstairs.
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A little intimidating if you're a group of girls out for a drink - there are some weird guys in here!! Avoid unless you've got a couple of six-footers around who can look after themselves!!!
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A good range of beers, if a little expensive. Mainly college/hospital staff and a few colourful regulars. By no means the worst pub in the area and, thankfully, not frequented by the media crowd
anonymous - 27 Jan 2007 15:25 |
The beer here is usually very good but it is rather pricey. Nice to sit outside in the summer and watch the totty. Food's ok. Always found the bar staff very friendly.
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Nice place but so close to UCL and UCH it gets totally packed out. However in summer - it has outdoor seating - it can be delightful. Food adequate, but beer much better. Usually a couple of decentish ales. Wine list good.
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Another character-less Spirit Group boozer. OK selection of beers, in OK condition, OK food. OK. Thats about it.
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On our first visit to London, this was the first pub my wife and I visited (mainly because I teach philosophy and I was intrigued by a pub named after a philosopher that I talk about in my classes; also, it was close to our lodging).
It was crowded in the middle of the day so we sat upstairs, where we interrupted a couple in business attire that appeared to be just moments away from copulation. Aside from that, the food--a chicken burger and a mushroom burger--was great, and the Guinness was even better. Staff was friendly.
When I visit London again, I'll go back.
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Pretty so-so place when all's said and done, and expensive even by Fitzrovia/Bloomsbury standards. There used to be a really good psycho cider on tap, but that seems to have disappeared. In summer at least, can be so crowded that your only option is to stand outside: opens at the weekend, but often almost empty apart from old gits smoking exceptionally malodorous cigars.
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One of the best in the area. Always has a good selection of good real ales
well kept, and a good variety of bottled beers.
Had a non-smoking area upstairs for about
6 months, then the pub was taken over and was smoking again.
The renovation at the start of 2005 kept the same traditional feel,
although the last time I went upstairs still feels a bit bare.
Given that this is in the heart of UCL you'd expect such a good pub to
be swamped by students, but it has more staff than students. I guess
its not trendy enough.
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This pub always has around 4 ales on and they are served to a good standard. Not bad place to go if you are in the area - not a favourite of mine but certainly somewhere i'm likely to go again.
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Don't ever go here for food. We went for an quick lunch and waited well over an hour after numerous complaints and still didn't get our food. We got fed up and got our money back!
Ian - 13 Nov 2004 15:49 |
Wonderful. Orkney Dark Island available on the night I visited
frank - 2 Nov 2004 16:10 |
I went to the JB last night - I studied at UCL a few years ago now and this pub is still good - it does a simple formula well done, there was no food available, but i was only really here for the beer. Good proper pub pub with friendly staff.
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Had a great night there on fri. loads of unusual guest beers, very crowded though, 8 out of ten
tim hartford - 15 Aug 2004 06:48 |
If you go to a pub near Gower St do not be surprised if it has students in it. Rather nice really though my students days are long gone. Coming from the City for weekly TaiChi lesson this pub is ok. Not for camra geeks or gastropub foodies
andy - 23 May 2004 12:25 |
Does seem like it's full of students insofar as seems filled with post-teens and can get crowded. Second floor upstairs is quiet and has several tables, which is a bonus if the downstairs is jammed. Somewhat in the middle of nowhere between TCR and Gower. And to all those sensitive souls who seem to have it in for me for being - dare I say it - critical of their favourite pubs: I have many recent happy memories of this place, so there. PS - I'm male, I have a fine circle of close friends, and I have left many positive statements about some places. Try not to let my comments ruin your day, eh.
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I work at the pub, and find it a very pleasant and friendly atmosphere to work in. The locals are lovely, as are the staff, and the pub has a super range of ales- hand pulled by my fine hand. Not many london pubs can boast to have all its guest ale beer mats displayed above the bar, there must be hundreds and hundreds. As for having too many students, we don't actually have that many- just fine art students from the Slade who come to see me. Brill pub, go have a drink there 10/10
gem - 27 Jan 2004 01:09 |
they try to have a few unusual guest beers during student term time, but I find the prices a bit steep.....
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very good and friendly
craig - 11 Mar 2003 23:00 |
Visited with a friend in January or February and found the beer to be wanting. I had to have one pint changed (which they did with good grace) but the alternative beer was "ok" but enough to deter me from making another visit. However things can always get better! Better off going to the head of steam in Euston
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Nice pub, really good if the weathers nice and you sit outside. Only bad thing is it has a lot of students due to the med school nearby.
rdear - 23 Oct 2002 13:08 |
