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visited late afternnon on bank hol sunday, beer was ok , didnt try food. decor was ok for a look around but not my kind of pub. went back up to the Duke of york for music and sports and a fresher tasting pint.
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A wonderful pub for character and charm. The interior is like a private museum, and you won't be bored in there unless you really want to. The landlady and rest of the staff are brilliant. Inside the Windsor Castle you feel like you are a hundred miles away from the big city.
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Simply excellent. Enough gaudy royal memorabilia for every Daily Mail reader in suburbia and signed mugshots of celebrities that disappeared into obscurity when men still wore perms. The beer is average at best, the food is unexceptional Thai, but the place is top-drawer charm. Visit little but often for the best effect.
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Brilliant little place this. One to take the parents too I guess when they are visiting...
I went on Easter Sunday and the friendly staff brought us easter eggs and other snacks on the house.
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Lovely little pub. Can be hard to get a seat during peak times but always managed to shuffle someone up. Good mix of tourists & locals, after a while they seemed to warm to us and were friendly. Beer was good but dont leave it to go for a cig or it may not be there when you get back. Lots of celeb stuff around the bar, if your into that.
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This is a GREAT pub. Not noisy, no big screen TV (thank god), Wadworths 6X, Strange men with bald heads and huge moustaches, great value THAI food served by friendly THAI men, immitation log gas fire, millions of things to look at on walls & ceiling. What more could you possibly want in a pub?
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The regulars do tend to take umbrage when a casual visitor waltzes in, they think that they are in a exclusive theatrical drinking club and the gates have been breached by the barbarians. just mention some luvvie names every so often and the ice will melt and no one will take any notice of you. As said before a nice pub in a nice part of town and their is the added bonus of a log fire, for those extended winter sessions.
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Visited in the evening of New Years Day so pretty quiet. I would echo a lot of previous comments - it is a great quirky pub but the Adnams was really second rate. I had thought I would give it another try, but having read the other comments I wonder if it is worth it - the landlord just has to keep his beer better.
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Cracking little gem of a pub this one.
Had a drink in here after Scotland got beat by Italy on saturday. Full of trinkets and memorabilia, freindly staff and customers. Well worth a visit.
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There's a lovely atmosphere in here, usually rippled by an overly loud American accent somewhere. The London Business School crowd do tend to swarm in and make it their own, but if you happen across a quiet evening or a slow weekend, this place is a real find.
Lovely, well kept beers.
The Sunday Lunch is disappointing (tough beef, dry chicken, frozen vegetables). You're better off at The Volunteer down the road, if you can get in.
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This pub is something else, full of memorabilia and museum artifacts. If you go there in the evening you may, unfortunately, meet this fat ignorant australian at the bar.
anonymous - 18 Sep 2007 09:13 |
nice pub, aimed at tourists on the heritage trail, nothing wrong in that, quite cosy in the winter, the barman pulls a good pint of Guinness and serves it in a dimple glass, a nice touch. A good pub to visit on an occassional basis.
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Nice quiet pub away from the tourists, took my girlfriend here on our first date on a midweek day & it was lovely & quiet where we could talk without being overheard.
Old fashioned type of pub that is (Sadly) dissapearing fast from around these parts
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This is a marvellous pub - if only I'd known about it when I worked in Edgware Rd area. I like the fact that there's no TV.
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No TV, No Music, a lot of intresting items but at the end of the day a large dust collection!!
anonymous - 22 Mar 2007 17:58 |
Went in on March 4th,and tried the Bombardier and the Adnams, both of which were served in good condition. I am surpised to read the reviews commenting on awful beer. It might have been a rare good night, so I will try it again.
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Interesting decor and friendly management, the food smells wonderful, thai, but the beer is awful, really, really awful.
anonymous - 6 Mar 2007 18:38 |
Interesting, old-fashioned, quirky, characterful, friendly.
Just a shame that the beer is never that good.
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this is just a mad pub, and is definitely worth going to once. packed full of mad mid 70s london b list memorabilia. nice atmos tho, and you can always sit outside in some quite unusal seats.
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Small local pub crammed full of interesting memorabilia of the Royal Family and other famous people who have visited ( Oliver Reed, Denis Compton, George Best etc - is there a pub that George Best didn't visit ?).
I regard this pub as a must visit place, just for this memorabilia alone, but the Adnams yesterday was desperately poor, as it has been on the only other time I've done this one. It's sacrilege to say so - but you might want to have a short or a soft drink if you do this one.
This is the type of pub that gets American tourists drooling into their coca - colas, but thankfully they don't seem to have found it in numbers yet
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Small local full of memorabilia. Plaques on the bar commemmorating the Fallen of various events. Adnams Bitter and Bombardier which seem to be the local standbys.
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Interesting. Like waking up and realising you've been abducted and woven into a doily. Ask for crisps, and the world's most timid landlord will empty said treat into a small paper bowl. It is only then that you'll realise that most crips have been made from about a third of a potato since 1976. A genteel, friendly place. If you know an American, take them there. It screams quaint.
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Quite a nice pub and good food which arrived pretty fast even though it was rammed. There was nowhere to sit first of all, but the staff came & told us when a table came available. Most of the pictures on the wall are of the Royal Family, past & present, although I think the dates of Charles I reign on one of the tables was wrong since technically he was not King until after the restoration.
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Very unusual and eccentric pub a little off the beaten track by the Edgeware Road. lot's of pubs have memorobilia which is generally pretty naff, but here whats on display is extensive and genuinley interesting. It has the feel of a museum although by no means a large place. The plaques on the bar commemorating regulars from years gone by are a nice touch and I can only assume that the current or previous landlord had extensive show business connections given the amount of signed photos around. Theres a great photo of Oliver Read and John Hurt beering it up in the bar area from some years back.
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Strange reliance on low waged staff given its pretence at 'britness' with handlebar club (men with proposterous whiskas) and Charles & Di memorobilia.
Nice to be a republican and a boozer like this.
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A great pub, full of interesting artifacts makes it feel like drinking in a museum. Great smell of thai food and a pleasant landlady called Irene. Last orders strictly enforced and glasses taken from your hand at 11:19:59p.m so be warned.
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went in saturday night and had lovely drink and the thai food was excellent will deffo go back,also found the same thai later in the week on crawford street called "two points" opposite the duke of wellington which was another good pub
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I was finally able to get to this pub just last week (3/31/05).A delightful pub run by a very nice fellow named Michael.Nice atmosphere.I belong to a club called The Handlebar Club.The club has their meetings once a month there.I met up with other members and had a smashing time!Food is either sandwiches or pub foor or very good Thai food.make a trip to it if possible and sit in the Handlebar corner(except the first Friday of the month!).
n7myw - 10 Apr 2005 03:42 |
Disturbing display of Charles and Camilla photograph as I went in today (day before roryal wedding) but apart from that good pub, thai food upstairs is great and not too expensive
anonymous - 8 Apr 2005 13:28 |
Very small, almost claustrophobic, pub. But in general quite nice. Warm and welcoming staff. Thai food is excellent.
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They serve Thai food 7 days a week.
cliff - 21 Feb 2005 13:50 |
Thai food on Sunday 12-3 & 6-10
Not sure about the other days...
anonymous - 20 Feb 2005 15:42 |
Very good Thai food, staff walm and welcoming
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Very good pub, food/Ale excellent, Staff are allways warm and welcoming.
Cliff Rozee - 5 Oct 2004 13:35 |
Very good thai food.
anonymous - 1 Oct 2004 14:00 |
Been here on many occasions, staff a bit distant, touristy, local clientelle a little up their own rears, but the beer is always good, good selection of wine, worth a visit.
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Absolutely insane pub - Crammed full of Royalist trinkets, this is where the Handlebar club meet.
Probably unlike any other pub I have been in, and therefore well worth a visit, even if it is like taking a tab of acid.
TheGP - 13 Sep 2004 11:17 |
Like wandering into the landlord's brain. This is how a pub should be, individual and idiosyncratic amidst a world of bland vapid chain outlets. Full of charm character and fine beer, this is a gem amongst pubs.
Agnes - 7 Sep 2004 12:05 |
Bizzare doesn't even begin to sum up this place. Mad interior but enjoyable place to visit.
Jack Knight - 24 Aug 2004 12:44 |
Great place - loads of character - disappointed not to see many of the Handlebar Club there on Friday, though! The food looked really good - must try some next time.
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A beautiful place with wonderful decor, however management is a little rude and service unfriendly.
vera shaw - 11 Feb 2004 14:58 |
Try the room upstairs and be amazed at the history it contains.
moet - 6 Feb 2004 13:32 |
Great landlord, Michael. Both he and the pub are full of character and traditional hospitality. A real find.
No ice - 18 Dec 2003 13:06 |
Great pub, with a warm and friendly atmosphere. Hosts the famous handlebar club on the first Friday of the month, fantastic.
macon - 18 Nov 2003 17:28 |
Nice Landlord and staff in this pub, when last visited (September 18th-24th). Well kept and served ale
Gilles - 29 Oct 2003 17:24 |
Know in Marylebone as God's waiting room due to the age of the customers!
But don't let that stop you. It a good pub.
Bollinger - 10 Sep 2003 18:51 |
loads of royal family memorabilia and old decor gives it a country pub feel. does decent thai food as well
alex - 19 Aug 2003 11:04 |
