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Comfortable pub. Had an excellent Pint of Pickled Partridge. Always a pleasure when I get back to the Mason's Arms
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Hall & Woodhouse beers, unusual for London. Badger First Gold and I assume seasonal Pickled Partridge on. £2-40 for First Gold, good value for central London. Two (gas coal effect) roaring fires, newspapers in a rack at the bar. Not much seating but a sign indicates more available in an upstairs room. Decent boozer worth a visit.
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Excellent hostelry, and well out of place in the West End, but long may it continue.
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Popped in on New Years eve and it seems a really pleasant place to go, just off from the main shopping areas so surprisingly it manages to keep a good atmosphere. The beer is fine, we had the Pickled partridge winter beer and it was fine. No food on due to the date though. We would certainly re visit if around the area again.
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I love Badger and the beer here won't disappoint. I visited on a Sunday and found the place not to busy. The fires were crackling and the atmosphere was relaxed.
On the downside, it's expensive. Also, the barmaid served my pint a good inch below the rim of the glass -- no head, just a low level.
The Carpenters Arms is a short stagger away, with plenty more choice but a little less atmosphere.
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Quiet [no live music on Wednesday], good beer [Ferret, August - October only], cheerful & attentive staff make this pub well 'vaut le detour' for West End drinkers who don't habitually venture N of Oxford St. The menu shows that it only aspires to entry level in the food stakes, but if that discourages those whose main interest is food rather than drink, so much the better, as there is not a lot of room inside.
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You can get a seat, which is more than you can say for most West End pubs. The beer is fine the food is adequate. There's no piped music or nasty little kids so i'd recommend it.
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Had a drop of Badger First Gold which was excellent. They also had Stinger on. This pub has a central bear, with some seating, but seemed to me to be the sort of pub for propping up the bar. Plenty of dark wood gives it an old feel. I don't know the prevenance of this pub, but there is a sign outside that says its cellars were originally cells used for the temporary incarceration of those unfortunates waiting to dance the hempen jig at Tyburn. I quite liked this pub, and will drop in again if I am in the area.
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I was not overly impressed with the Lager or the food in here.
I went in with the misses on Friday afternoon and ordered a pint of Fosters (I think) and a cheese sandwich and a BLT baguette. The sandwich and the baguette were both stale and the bacon tasted of fish. The menu was mainly Thai and in hindsight I should have ordered some of that as it looked quite good.
My first pint wasn’t the greatest and was served, in a glass with lipstick around the rim, by a fairly miserable barmaid; although I was later served by a much chirpier barmaid.
In my opinion, unless you are into real ale, this is probably a pub to give a miss.
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I went here back in the fall when Stinger was on, and I agree it was a great pint. Went back last weekend and had a decent Hopping Hare at a whopping 3 pounds! Most expensive beer of the night.
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I really liked this place; it is a nice, cosy, little pub with a friendly enough environment. The Badger beers were spot on, especially Stinger, which was great. The normal Badger ale was only £2.40.
As a mark of the kind of place it is, two plebs walked in and asked for Magners. The barmaid said they don’t have any, so, remarkably, they tried Stinger. There is hope…
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Good pub, great beer. Can't argue with that.
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A compact pub serving Badger Beer, worth a visit.
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Really liked this place on a Saturday afternoon, although sadly there were no seats downstairs in the very pleasant and relaxed main bar so had to go upstairs. Its a Badger's pub so decent beer (vera_shaw is just wrong) - Festive Pheasant is lovely though as its seasonal today's may be my last pint!
anonymous - 4 Feb 2006 23:23 |
At least you can normally get a seat here when the others all around are full!
The food is a bit suspect. I had a mushroom risotto once that clearly came out of a microwave packet marked 'Tesco' or 'Sainsburys', and another time they forgot to wash the soil off my salad!
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The beer is awful and the food is a little suspect too. I like the "fire" in the winter. Passers-by seem to call in to use the lavatory making the pub feel like a giant public toilet on a frosty sunday night. Interesting history.
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Blandford fly is excellent (real gingery) and the benches outside get nice sunlight in the Summer. Shame their fridge never seems to work so you have to get them to put the beer in an ice bucket for a while.
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very nice little pub unusual beers but very good quality
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Great atmosphere with a nice mix of locals, office people, tourists and people from the park. They have got a great german lager called Hof... something and there is a really good looking tall guy behind the bar. They need to imrove their foof though.
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Horrible. Someone please draw a smile on the face of the girl that works there!
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They sell bottled wheat beer and the excellent Blandford Fly. What more can I say, except has anyone seen my sandals?
phil - 14 Jul 2004 16:36 |
Best pub around, even though it's not the most popular. Beer could be of a higher standard, and is best supped whilst sitting outside with a kebab bought from Edgware road
CJL - 14 Jul 2004 16:26 |
Nice locals pub - and found a great little hidden booth (right behind the bar) - perfect for a few pints with a small group of friends. (or a slightly larger group of small friends)
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COZY AND ATMOSPHERIC,CAN BE HARD TO FIND SO MAINLY FULL OF LOCALS.
Nick Hamer - 10 Apr 2004 16:54 |
A very friendly pub with an interesting history. There is a tunnel under the road leading to the hanging tree at Marble Arch as the prisoners used to be kept in the basement. Some nice little 'cubby-holes'.
Ed Dyson - 18 Mar 2004 22:32 |
