Pleasant pub, very good choice of beers warm & cosy in the Winter (If you can find a seat!) mix of ladies-who-lunch types who'll demolish several bottles of wine in a session, some media luvvies, retired Gents and real ale session Men! Usually packed, but GOOD atmosphere! I'd recommend.Great pub. Nice and cosy. Friendly service. Great food. Good choice of beers.Probably the best pub in Ealing, though I'd agree with the poster below that the staff are a little surly sometimes. The landlord seems decent enough, but I always feel like I'm putting him out a bit. Howver, he's done a good job of providing meals without losing the 'local' feel of the place.

Great atmosphere usually packed-a bit on the pricey side prob due to central location; however one ongoing prob is the 25 min wait to get served! continually insufficient bar staff!! If you're prepared to wait-then fab!Anya the Manager is great and always remembers who is next to be served!Has the potential to be the best pub in Ealing but there are never enough staff on and the ones on are slow. Would make triple the money if you could actually get served.Great selection of continental lager and the onlt decent pub right on the Broadway. Does get a little packed at the weekend though and I only really enjoy drinking there in the week when it's more chilled.

I had the same reservations as james below but I popped in for a quick solo mission on a Friday afternoon and found this to be a very welcoming and friendly place.On paper one might assume this pub to suck; the space it occupies is rather limiting for one and then there's the Irish angle. I'd assumed the latter to be nothing more than O'Neills-esque pretence but rather refreshingly this boozer is the real Irish deal. Both the staff and the punters are courteous beyond the call of duty and I'd recommend this pub to anyone.
Good for: Pub quiz on a Thursdays are laugh - 7/10.First time visit recently and most certainly the last. When my Scottish boyfriend had the affront to ask, after we had ordered our drinks, if we had been served Irish or Scotch, the barmaid told the manageress about it (even though it was a polite enquiry, not a complaint) who then came and questioned us about it, not in a polite way but in a how-dare-you-question-what-you’re-given-in-this-pub way. I’m Irish and have always enjoyed drinking in the Irish pubs in West London and have always come across friendly staff, but not in this case.

I visited this pub again over christmas, and it was wonderful. nice to walk into a pub with the fires going, the atmosphere was nice and welcoming.
I did eat this time and the Thai food was very tasty. once again i was very impressed.Hmm anyone else get the sneaking suspicion that maybe SarahTas works in the Castle ? -
IE Thai green curry = 'wonderful'
little sun traps = 'wonderful'
This pub is great, The Fosters is cold and is served in glasses from the fridge which is a nice little extra. The Thai food (try the thai curry!) is wonderful as well as the regular bar food. For smokers there is plenty of outside space plus the outside areas in the summer are wonderful little sun traps for topping up the tan in summer - when it comes out that is! It shows all sports but if it's rugby or cricket you want this is the best place in Ealing to watch it. I hope Fullers don't try and change it to much like the Drayton Court (West Ealing) and The Duke of Kent (Pittshanger Lane).
As for the comments about the Bar Staff they could be a lot worse, They are always cheery and welcoming unlike some of the other pubs in the area.

Good pub on the whole. Could do with more live music there though. Was in one night and the Eric Gilchrist Jazz Quintet was playing - added a whole lot more fun to our evening. Recommend you get this group in again and if you do, I'll come again.Paid a massive £8.65 for a large wine and pint of stella;more fool me!!! Am I the only one to think that fullers prices are extortionate? So why did I go? One because I'm an idiot. Two, because my girlfriend really likes it there and i feel like a tightarse if I am constantly avoiding Fuller's pubs.
I really think more of us need to boycott these pubs-starting with my own stupid self. I completely agree with the comment below, this pub has not character or atmosphere. Its just another fullers carbon copy. The quiz does nothing a pub quiz should, its boring. I wouldn't avoid this pub, but I wouldn't go out of my way to go there either.

Ive mixed feelings about this place.Being of Irish descent, I find the whole in your face irish theme a bit irritating and phony;however there seems to be a good selection of quality European lagers. I agree that the service is variable.Just dont argue with the bouncers - one of them killed a bloke who was off his face drunk last year.Just dont argue with the bouncers - one of them killed a bloke who was off his face drunk last year.

And of course Tom, the new assistant manager. I knew I'd forget somebody! :-(Just to reiterate my previous post, Lee has not only made this a great pub again but he has assembled a great team. Kate, Brenda, James, Karah and the others are fantastic. (Oops! I'm bound to have peed somebody off by forgetting them.)

I should add for the sake of balance that I only use "The Greystoke" in the afternoon, so I don't know what it's like in the evening but I haven't heard of any trouble.

If it's excitement you want from a pub then I suggest you go to Ealing Broadway where there are several 'exciting' pubs. If you want to relax with a beer or three in convivial surroundings then you couldn't do better than "The Greystoke", just over the road from North Ealing Station on the Piccadilly Line.

Oh, and there is a bookies next door as well if that's your thing.

GostevieFurther to me previous review, I would just like to say that Lee has improved enormously. Perhaps I was being unfair. This is a great pub again.

Lovely location- easy to stumble onto a bus or tube after a couple of cocktails. Quite pricey but there is no riff raff, so worth the expense. Certainly better than any other establishment you will find going further into Acton. Great cheap cocktails between 5-8 Monday-Thursday. Staff friendly, nice pub food. Clean and very well presented.
Although, I found the showing of the football in a bar like this didnt really suit the yuppy crowd. It's okay, nice decor but thinks far too much of itself - I think at almost £4 a pint I won't be coming here often. Nice cocktails though, if a bet steep at £6.80.Having left Jono's across the road to experience a different vibe, as it were, we found ourselves in The Common Room in the company of Beyonce, Wonderwoman and a lot of other fly bootylicious people. Party time, evidentIy. I didn't think I'd enjoy this place but was pleasantly surprised. Even the young drunken fellow yelling nonsense down his phone and introducing himself to complete strangers didn't phase us. Most enjoyable.

Shame they revamp'd this local. It was just fine the way it was. Fullers make great ales but they ain't got a clue when it comes to pub "restoration" and re-design. Their beer remains brill. Why can't their pubs?I really like this pub. Beers are good and the staff are friendly and there is a nice range of locals. You won't feel out of place if you are 25 or 65.This is my favourite of two locals, the other being The Haven Arms. The Haven definately as more character but why do people have such hangups on character? I don't think the Wheatsheaf is completely without character and the beers good and the foods ok (variable, sometimes good, sometimes just ok). In the end it's you and your friends that make a good time!

I defy anyone to say they can find a better Sunday carvery than here! Huge plateful of anamazing choice AND they willingly topped up our plates with chosen veggies! Delicious! Not any more expensive than elsewhere-though did find the kids running around on Sunday afternoons irritating-apart from this it is highly recommended!
Not bad. Staff are friendly enough, as long as you don't happen to go in when the polish girls are working. A more miserable face you never will see, not even a simple 'hello' or 'goodbye'.Rude.Enjoy a pint here before jumping on the 65 to go and see the super Bees (you're spot-on, anon, 12.9.07). Like Man Utd, some can only buy the shirt and call themselves fans when they rarely venture inside the ground. Decent boozer. Enough said.

I recently went to the Duke of Kent on Scotch Common, and i must say i was so impressed. It was a very busy evening. Me and my family went there for dinner and a few drinks. On my arrival there i felt so welcomed by the staff. The staff were so freindly and cheerful. The manager on shift, a young guy with dark hair, was cooperative and helpful in providing the right seating arrangemnt for me and my family, also the service was quite prompt and quick. The quality of the food we recieved was on the right times and of exceeding quality. I will definately be returning to this pub and would recomend it.

Regards

Lucy SmithI have to say Starski that I know three people who have all been short changed by at least a tenner in this place. I share your concerns. PS iF YOU PAY WITH A TWENTY, MAKE SURE YOU TELL THEM.Again, I implore someone to explain to me why Fullers pubs are so extortionate. I had a lovely meal and enjoyed myself. The service was good. A little bit pricey but its somewhere where i would recommend.

I had a couple of pints in this large pub yesterday evening and was served by a very friendly barman. Pride, ESB, Honeydew Keg, Stella, Kronenburg and Guinness were all available from the double sided bar. It was pretty busy for the Portugal v Czech Republic game which was being shown on a couple of plasma screens.

As mentioned before there is a nice beer garden to the rear and a few benches at the front, but you’d be mad to sit out the front unless you have an interest in watching and listening to cars and vans fly past at high speed.

I’d pop in again if I was walking past, but that is highly unlikely.Stayed in the attached hotel (excellent!) for a couple of days, so this was my temporary local. Standard Fuller's food menu, decent prices, well-kept beer and a friendly crowd. The only downside was the limited range of beers; they did't have any of the usual milder selections like Chiswick or Explorer, much less a guest beer. Very much worth a visit if you're in the area. This was my local for two years in London and probably the only pub serving reasonable real ale anywhere in the vicinity.

The location (On the main Ealing-Harrow road) is pretty difficult to appreciate, although as previous posts have mentioned there is a beer garden out the back.

Nevertheless, reasonably well-kept beer and a good, if standard Fullers menu make it worth a visit if you are in the area and at a loose end for places to eat. As with many London pubs, the staff are a cosmopolitan collection which change with regularity. good, friendly service, though, and always made to feel welcome upon my visits there. Beer selection encompasses three to four real ales plus 1845 in bottled form. Recommend, especially given the alternatives in the area.

This pub advertises itself as a child friendly pub - do not believe this. My wife and her group left the pub after a few cries from one of the babies prompted an onset of rudeness from the bar manager. Of the few people in the pub at the time, nobody complained except about the behaviour of the bar manager. One to avoid if you have childrenThis is the LEAST family friendly pub I have ever been in. We had a small baby with us who cried for a few minutes (babies sometimes do). The manager was extremely rude about this to the extent that we felt compelled to leave. Looking back we were not made to feel welcome from as soon as the bar manager started his shift. The pub was virtually empty anyway and there was no atmosphere. Avoid.I used to frequent this public house regularly before the refit. It was a far better pub, one of Ealing's best in my opinion, even if it was slightly shabby. That was part of its charm. I then avoided it for a year after it was refurbished thinking it was another All Bar One. Thankfully I discovered it isn't. It is a decent pub but it is not what it once was.

Loving the garden here in the good weather. A stones throw away from the tube with little else to impress in the area. Can't fault the service and the beer's well kept.This pub seems a bit underrated to me. We went in on a Sunday evening after a long country walk, looking for a couple of pints to soothe our aching feet. We would have liked the Bombardier, only it was off, but the Deuchars IPA and Theakston's XB were perfectly decent substitutes. It was quiet, comfortable and although we didn't eat, the menu looked good. Not a standout pub but nothing to complain about eitherVery suprised to read these comments - I had a great time there on Thursday night. Friendly chap behind the bar and a good selection of drinks. No reason not to go there again. Maybe it's new management?

I didn't see anyone laughing in there when I popped in. I must not get the joke. Gash.It gets way too busy on weekends and you cannot get a drink at the bar. Only "Ha Ha", if you find intimidating atmospheres and pricey but average tasting beers amusing...

I think the owners are having the last laugh.