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My husband and I found this pub on the way back to our hotel, the Churchill. We found it to be clean, decent, reasonably priced (relative to the area's costs and given the conversion rate at the time) and a lot of fun. We enjoyed it so much that we went 3 nights in a row on our 5 day trip. Now, I would not venture too far from the burger on the menu (the thai noodle salad did not resemble anything Thai as much as a salad) but the burgers, chips and Guiness and Pimm's were great.
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Visited this pub for the 2nd time in 3 years. Nothing very startling, more like a cafe/bar than a JDW pub. As a previous poster said it has more the looks of a Lloyds No 1, although it is not big enough. Most of the punters were conducting business and therefore drinking tea/coffee/water.
Real ale selection was poor, so just had the one pint of Hampshire Rose.
The gent's toilet is rather interesting. It is down flights of narrow stairs and you are faced with a very large circular bowl as soon as you enter. I imagine the inebriated would take it for a communal toilet: actually it is the washing facilities, there being no individual washbasins.
Obviously cheaper than other local pubs, but not really worth visiting.
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A standard, London Wetherspoons. It's like the McDonalds of the pub world - consistent, reliable and cheap. Plenty of real ales available, and usually well kept. Standard food. I've been in some much better 'spoons pubs elsewhere in the UK.
In this area you can do better & you can do (much) worse. So if you don't know where else to go, you can always rely on Wetherspoons :o)
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why would anyone even want to enter this place?
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for a Wetherspoon's this is surprisingly good, very handy for the cinema. Handy meeting point, good selection of bottled beers and half decent wine list, the only trouble is this place can get rammed, so dont hold your breath waiting for a table
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I'm surprised that this is not branded as a Lloyds No.1 bar rather than as a Wetherspoons, particularly as they only seem to have a passing interest in real ale. Otherwise, quite small but reasonably inoffensive...
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Modern bar-style Wetherspoons. The beer tasted better than I normally expect from 'spoons so that's a plus. Probably not quite as cavernous as most Wetherspoons places but it's still fairly spacious.
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Typical Central London Wetherspoons, usual good prices and an average/good range of well-kept beer. Decor is clean, and more 'bar style'. No complaints, nothing special, nothing wrong with it. (due to its location it does get rather busy)
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This is a nice spacious, airy bar and I never have problems getting served. I've always found the staff friendly and polite. Food is cheap and cheerful as you come to expect with this chain.
w2man - 19 Aug 2006 21:58 |
Quite like this place. Decor is more like that found in Lloyds No.1 (i.e more bar than pub). Good service (Monday lunchtime) even though busy.
Not as many guest beers on as as normally get in Wetherspoons, however it was a very good pint of London Pride. Food was up to Wetherspoons good standards at low prices. The only disappointment on the food was that the Beer & Burger offer didn't start until 2pm.
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Myself and 2 friends went here on Monday for breakfast. Do yourself a favour, don't make the same mistake! Quite possibly the most disgusting food I've ever seen/pushed around a plate!
Usual varied selection of beers though.
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yet again not enough staff for what is a busy wethersoons on a busy corner, avoid this place if you are in london next weekend for live8, doesnt look as if they have the wisdom to deploy extra staff to cope with the influx of 150,000 people in the area,they even have the cheeek to advertise other pubs prices on a notice board near the door,i had previously been in one of the aforementioned pubs the duke of wellington and even though it was 20p extra for a pint i was served quickly and efficiently by friendly barstaff
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dont ever pop in here for a quick pint,went in on the afternoon after a walk in the park and was on the verge of leaving before getting served,went back on the evening and still the same lack of bar staff,good selection of beers on view both bottled and on tap but a shame you cant get stuck into them
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Decor completely different from your average Wetherspoon, so worth it if you're fed up of the average Wetherspoon decor. Has the usual Wetherspoon deals, and is a few stumbles from the cinema, which is handy.
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We called this 'the plastic pub.' Very modern, I guess you can say, so it detracts from the atmosphere if you're a traditionalist pub goers. Wetherspoons does a good job, though, no matter what. Plenty of pulls, very few punters (when we went) and a pretty good location in London.
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Pretty good Wetherspoon pub where you actually stand a chance of getting a seat!
Ollie - 30 Aug 2004 15:12 |
Standard Wetherspoon fare next to cinema. This one has odd exterior that one has to look to establist the name of the place. Inside it is darker and barer than normal with an odd bench in the smoke free bit which is at an uncomfortable hight when compared with the accompanying tables
lout_from_the_lane - 20 Apr 2004 13:58 |
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