please note - reviews on this site are purely the opinion of site visitors, so don't take them too seriously.
Three of the Stanhope's best barmaids have recently left (Monika, Dalia and Cecylia). Their replacements seem to be almost as friendly and efficient. If I owned a pub, I would want to use the same recruitment agency to find my staff.
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On a rare visit to London, this was a pleasing find.
Bar staff friendly enough, convenient location opposite Gloucester Road tube, food very reasonably priced, served quickly and tasted good.
Good range of beers including 4 hand pulls, London Pride, Spitfire, Greene King IPA )I think) and another. Nice lean to area outside front of pub, no doubt smokers den when busy.
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A nice pub, plenty of people in there on a Wednesday evening and you could see why (and it isn't just because it's opposite the tube station and near to Waitrose!). A larger range of beers than the otherwise admirable Gloucester - I had Shepherd Neame Spitfire which was fine.
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Colleen, are you sure you were in the Stanhope? If the staff are rude, it sounds more like the Hereford down the road. I've always found the Stanhope barstaff to be more than friendly and polite. Amy has now left, but the hardworking team are doing a great job. Yes, many customers are tourists, but there are also a good number of regular local customers too.
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This has to be the most awful pub in the country, the barstaff are rude and inexperienced, the draught beer is not kept well and the pub is totally geared to tourists who don't know any better. Stay in and don't waste your money.
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Traditional English pub, selection of English ales and good meals. Very popular with sports fans - big screen used for big soccer matches. Clientele are a lively mixture of tourists and locals. Staff are friendly, fast and helpful - but shame there is such a high turnover rate. No hunky barmen at the moment. Staff are mainly Polish, Australian and Kosovan - and there's a lovely English barmaid who looks like Amy Winehouse. If you're in the South Ken/Gloucester Road area - pop in, you won't be disappointed.
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Found the Stanhope in Sept 73, as an American abroad for a year, living between Earls Court and Glouchester Rd tube stops, so I'm hardly a current reviewer. More interested in seeing what happened upstairs. Late in 1972, the changed over from the Mississippi Room, a real cool, beat up and down joint which played Dixieland Jazz, to the Basin Street Bar. I played the trumpet in the Mississippi room for beer, 40p a pint, but when they cleaned up the act and brought the union in early 1973, I stopped. The Brits really loved any American jazz, hope something is still there!
bradw - 18 Jan 2008 02:12 |
Very nice traditional pub with friendly and efficient bar staff. Very busy when I visited and deservedly so. Excellent Fish and Chips too, that were served piping hot.
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Nice looking old corner pub opposite Gloucester Road tube that also has a bus stop outside. Usual Spirit Group ale offering, Pride, Bombardier and the revamped Speckled Hen, in decent condition. Good selection of wines and full menu. Couple of well placed plasma screens with Sky Sports. On my visit during the Cricket World Cup earlier this year I encountered for real the often apocryphal situation of meeting an American who wanted me to explain the game to him. Luckily I know the rudiments of baseball so was able to equate runs to base hits, the wicket keeper to a catcher, a six to a home run etc. An interesting little encounter until his wife came back from shopping and dragged him away. Decent pub.
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Not a bad pub but can get very busy.
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If you are going for a drink round glouceser road well worth a visit, good traditional boozer that has a great atmosphere, compared to other pubs in the area stands haed and shoulders above them!!
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Had a very pleasant Sunday lunchtime drink in the Stanhope. The beer was good and the bar-staff were polite and friendly. They played a very nice selection of music and it was a real pleasure drinking in a traditional pub that hadn't been ruined by being turned into a bar or gastro-pub. Let's hope it stays that way.
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Hard to get served and not worth it when you are. Needs a refurb and an attitude make-over.
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The Stanhope Arms (Gloucester road tube station) 6
A bit noisy and too smoky when crowded, but food and ales were OK.
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I live quite nearby, and wouldn't reccommend the Stanhope. There is a limited selection of fairly tasteless beer; quite a rowdy sports pub. The Hereford Arms (2 mins down Glos Rd) is much nicer.
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Great atmosphere for a London pub, has real character, good food and nice people.
A real good meeting place we met people from EVERYWHERE during our weeks visits. Love the place!!!
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Just went there to watch the Euro2004 match. Bought a drink and then heard the supervisor (or owner) telling a person (in a not very friendly way) that he need to buy a drink to stay and watch the match. What happen later was worse. The supervisor even told his staff right in the middle of the pub, among the crowd, to go around and see who doesn't have a drink and cannot stay. Doesn't he care whether his patrons hear what he was saying. I can understand that he needs to make money but a pub is all about being a friendly place and patrons feel wanted and will return. This place doesn't seem to satisfy the above.
CK - 20 Jun 2004 23:23 |
I love the Stanhope. Best place in South Ken, but one question, where did that cute American red head go?
anonymous - 14 May 2004 00:42 |
As a Scottish visitor I commend the larger 35ml spirit measures at a reasonable price. Scottish banknotes welcome. food good.
Peter - 7 Apr 2004 22:44 |
A bit noisy and smokey especially when the football is on. The beer on the other hand is pretty well kept
Cliff - 15 Mar 2004 10:47 |
Lovely Columbian girls, I will go again and again! They are very friendly, good service!
anonymous - 27 Jan 2004 19:39 |
The best pub in London. I love it! A warm welcome, good lager and a great fish & chips. I used to stay there in my lonely nights in London, to search for myself. And they used to be lovely!!! Thank you again, Hector
Hector - 25 Jan 2004 23:50 |
Very nice pub, used to be served as a 12-16 year old got rejected when i was 17 now im 19 its fine. Good for sports, friendly staff, manager, i think its the manager is a bit of a prat but its a good 8/10 pub
caius - 2 Jan 2004 20:18 |
My favorite pub in london.....great place to watch football....great seating outside...used to love sitting out there all day on gloucsester road drinking 1664....miss the place a lot, will be the first place i go next time i visit london
anonymous - 20 Nov 2003 18:02 |
I love the Stanhope Arms. Very friendly staff. I was staying just around the corner on Cromwell, and the Arms became a daily ritual. Great fish & chips, love the lager, but my favorite was sitting outside with a large merlot, and watching the world go by. Did that every afternoon.
Bill Newton - 6 Oct 2003 14:46 |
First time visit to London and I loved this place, hung out there several nights in a row watching soccer (oops, football) and drinking Kronenberg 1664 (why can't I get that in USA ???). They have this desert (blackberry and apple cobbler with a warm vanilla sauce) that I will fly from New York just to have. What a great place, looking forward to being there again in July 2003 !!!
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Warm, welcoming place with a good selection of beers and real ales. My wife and I had a good fish & chips dinner there with our 2 1/2 year old daughter--we obviously did not fit the usual profile in the place, but we were treated very well. Will definitely return!
steve owens - 21 May 2003 00:40 |
Fantastic place, really friendly staff. Nice food, especially the all day breakfast..
Great atmosphere for footy games.
What can i say, been loads of times and it is still the best pub in the area
anonymous - 23 Apr 2003 15:47 |
Not bad at all. Not many decent pubs in this part of London. A good meeting place.
anonymous - 7 Apr 2003 18:43 |
smokey, crowded, friendly, darts, and Rugby. I loved it!!!!!!!!
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American Ranger, 1st time London, John Smith pints, fish&chips, treated very well. Comming back againExcellent staff!!!!!!
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Had a lovely time in this pub.
Watched Manchester United - Chelsea here, my reds scoring in the very last minute amidst a pretty heavy Chelsea crowd
Still, the pub exploded when the goal came :)
Tristan - 31 Jan 2003 17:02 |
