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The Brains SA Gold was my refresher here today. Beer was acceptable, pub fairly uninteresting. Bes feature is being able to drink outside in the sunshine.
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Good pub, friendly staff..usually gets really busy but I've been in many times on a Saturday afternoon after shopping and it's much quieter and has a relaxing atmosphere.
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Beer quality better than many Nicholson's, but the evening music is unnecessarily loud (presumably in a dismal - but failed - attempt to create some 'atmosphere'). Suggestion: if you want to drink in the Marquis of Granby, try the other pub with the same name at nearby Cambridge Circus instead.
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Standard Nicholson’s clone, a tad depressing, probably one best left for the tourists.
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In there with a group on saturday night and the two ladies behind the bar failed to crack a smile once, then rang the bell for time at 10.50pm and proceeded to take our drinks away at 11.10pm. We weren't roudy but were spending money. Couldn't believe we were in central London on a Saturday night and were thrown out just after 11. Shame as its a handy pub and the beer's ok
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Nice pub for late saturday afternoon bite to eat. Usual JN selection of ales served OK. Had no problem with the bars staff. If you like sausages and mash then they have a good selection including veggie ones.
Gets very full saturday nights.
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Bit of a meeting-point-pub which gets bloody rammed in the summer with new media types....Not too bad though. Wouldn't chance my luck with the stairs if i'd had a few mind you, bit steep.
Fair pint of Stella in here.
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Was third pub on a Friday night pub crawl. Got here about 7ish and it was absolutely heaving inside and out. Despite this I found the service to be OK and the beer I tried was adequate. Managed to find enough room to drink my pint and found the pub had a nice atmosphere but was clearly full of people who were going to move on somewhere else like myself.
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Whilst, undoubtedly The Marquis Of Granby has had some interesting characters pass through its doors in the distant past, I personally found it unbearable on my visit a few months back. The pub itself is small, wooden and on the whole, okay. Prices are dear but hey-ho, it’s the area. In a way, the pubs fame is its own downfall. The place gets absolutely heaving inside and out; with suits and tourists everywhere. A small pub like this simply cannot handle the sheer volume of custom it attracts and I personally don’t feel standing outside a pub or its next-door hairdressers makes for a particularly good drinking environment. You come to drink in the pub, not in the street, right? If you can avoid a visit after work hours and queuing an hour to get a drink, then it’s probably okay in here at other times, but I personally can’t be bothered to find out.
HTM69 - 25 Oct 2006 14:00 |
I visited this pub on a Thursday afternoon for lunch and a pint. The barmaid was very nice and friendly and can't complain about the beer but the food was absolutely bloody appalling. I paid £9.95 for a "Large Chicken Steak Burger" to be served with chips and salad.
What I got is this - not a word of a lie: two bits of bread of a type I couldn't identify so I'm still not sure as to whether it's *supposed to be rock solid or not*, on top of which was an overcooked rubbery chicken breast - no batter, crumbs or anything else. The portion of chips was so small that no chip was touching any other chip on the plate. The salad was a few leaves of romaine lettuce and a couple of segments of a tomato.
Perhaps someone braver than me might care to go there and find out what the *regular* chicken steak burger consists of. I sure as hell won't be going back.
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Was a great pub, but recently in need of a bit of TLC (gents are pretty poor to say the least). Still a good place to meet.
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Not a bad place, and one of the pleasanter pubs in the area (which has many pubs, but few with a particular interest in being welcoming). Stay away on weekend nights, though, unless you're looking for a DJ and a show--for some reason, the pub's managers think that setting up a weekly dance night in a medium-sized pub is a winning idea.
The beer is what you'd expect to find in a Nicholson's pub--if you don't like bitters or bubbles, stay away. Nonetheless, this is a nice pub for a pint if you happen to be in the area.
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We were immensely disappointed with the speed of the service – we arrived at 12:15pm and ordered straight away. One meal (we were a party of 10) arrived after about 25 minutes, but the burger bun was stale. I complained to the barstaff, and they arranged a replacement, which arrived about 10 minutes later.
The majority of the rest of the party had to wait until 50 minutes after ordering before their food arrived, with the exception of one poor guy who didn’t receive his food until 13:20pm, a full hour and ten minutes after ordering!
As a local company of over 100 employees, we frequent many of the pubs and restaurants around the Fitzrovia area, and previously, the Marquis burger was somewhat of an institution. However, we have noticed standards dropping over the last month or so, and this lunchtime’s poor performance has unfortunately had the effect of deterring any of us from visiting there again, at least in the near future. An email was sent round the company informing them of our bad experience, and suggesting that they avoid the Marquis of Granby in the future.
We were told that the reason the service was so slow was that the Chef was currently away on holiday, although we strongly feel that if suitable alternative arrangements hadn’t been made (and they most clearly hadn’t), then we should have been informed of this at the time of ordering.
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It had been some years since I have been here although I often walk past so I decided to include it on my Nicholson’s Dick Whittington Ale Trail. Whilst not far from the bustle of Oxford Street, this part of Fitzrovia has a village feel not unlike bits of Hampstead. When quiet the pub has quite a relaxed and calm ambience but I have often seen it in summer with people teeming onto the pavements. The interior is not too overpowering and candles on the tables give the place an intimate touch. The service was excellent from the welcoming and chatty (Aussie) barman. Cask Marque accredited but for a Nicholsons pub the beer selection was quite poor with only 2 mainstream ales. A decent enough pub when quiet but I wouldn’t want to be here fighting through the crowds.
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Nathan Barley alert. Seems an ok pub though. 6/10 I guess.
anonymous - 17 Jan 2006 21:58 |
One of the true Fitzrovia literary pubs. Dylan Thomas spent boozy lunchtimes here writing Death of the King's Canary with John Davenport, later to be joined by TS Eliot for a few pints. It was also the pub where Orwell would finish the evening as, being in a different borough to the other pubs in Fitzrovia, it would stay open half-an-hour later. Today it's an ordinary one room pub with a horse-shoe bar and plenty of wood, including panelling half way up the wall. It's low key and modestly attractive with two walls of windows to give some views of the passing world. It has piped music, but not too loud or intrusive, even if the music itself is a bit middle-aged bland. It had two casks ales on my visit -Pride and Landlord. I tried the Landlord (£2.60) which was served traditionally cellar cool. It was quite dry and dusty as it should be, but it lacked the fresh delicacy that gives this beer it's true reputation. All in all not a bad place, but not a lot to recommend, other than for the literary connections.
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This is a tidy little venue full of local media/retail/advertising types. Especially good in the Summer as everyone spills outside. Not full of tourists either. London Pride more than drinkable.
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Ok meeting joint. I have heard either very good or very bad about this place. After my friend had a beetle/bug/whatever it was experience on the bar I don't feel at ease. Too loud to talk in a croud, although it is in central London, I could recommend better. Don't even try to go to the ladies with heels! Nah, dirty. And dirty glasses. Eugh.
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lovely inside at the back, in the summer
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a good one in an area that's effectively a desert if you're looking for somewhere that isn't a jumped-up soho w@nkparlour
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Seemed to have fallen down ahead of the photo (above)! Okay pub, if occasionally dodgy beer.
Gram - 7 May 2004 12:22 |
Does anybody know what's happened to this pub? Went past the other evening and half the sign had come down or been taken down-accident or is there something fouler afoot??
anonymous - 12 Jan 2004 21:36 |
Top pub, even better manager!
Macca - 19 Aug 2003 16:22 |
Just for atmousphere this place is great. On a sunny day you can't beat the outside area after work, and the location is fantastic, loads going around the place.
Sian - 14 Aug 2003 12:35 |
Great pub. Short wait at the bar even when crowded. Subtle welsh influence.
Peter - 13 Aug 2003 08:52 |
It's always so bloody crowded. Tend to gravitate towards it, spot the heaving mass outside, then walk off to the Black Horse or Bricklayers thinking "Why is it always so bloody crowded?"
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Average really. Average food and average beer. Very busy on a nice day cos there's loads of room to stand outside. Unfortunately there are also plenty of beggars to keep you from talking to your mates by asking you for money in a wide variety of different ways, sometimes through a traffic cone.
Greg - 16 Jun 2003 16:57 |
I used to be the manager of this pub. It was and I am sure still is the best pub in or around soho. the atmosphere and services excellent for its size. I hope that this is still the case. I wish there some photo display.
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Not a bad pub. Range of beer was a bit poor but the staff were efficient and polite.
Alistair - 6 Jan 2003 15:18 |
great pub for an after work drink. not too flash but not full of old men either. slightly dodgy beer selection. bar staff friendly & fast.
katiepie - 15 Nov 2002 16:17 |
