Having been on contract work in Soho for the past 2 months and having been to (nearly!) every pub in the area, I have to say the Ship is so far my favourite place by a long way.
Beers are really good (Pride, ESB, Grolsch all well kept), can't comment on wines as not much choice.
The staff are a great bunch of characters and the music is bloody brilliant.
Word of warning though, having witnessed a few altercations, idiots are dealt with swiftly - though fairly politely. Very refreshing to see these days when so many places allow a few fools to ruin others evenings.
Looking forward to becoming a regular. Fab.Superb pub...been there 4 -5 times in last 2 weeks. It plays great, loud music - that's one of the characteristics I love...and is different than the usual sterile pubs. One comment though...please fix the round table by the door....much spilt drink !...I used to drink in this pub regularly ten years ago when I lived in London. I was on a pub crawl yesterday of all the old haunts for old times sake.
Have to say I was not impressed.
Pub seemed to be very dirty, one of the tables was obviously broken, as were several of the stools. And the beer (London Pride) was flat. Not up to the usual Fullers standard.
Won't be including this one in future pub crawls.

Visited this pub when in the area on the strength of its description in the 2010 Good Beer Guide. Probably worth mentioning that none of the beers listed in the GBG were actually available in the pub, instead there were a couple of Thwaites beers and a couple more I'd never heard of before. The beer I chose was flat and uninspiring. Pub smelt of fresh paint and had obviously just been redecorated, although I felt there was a lack of character compared to other pubs in the area. OK if you are on your own and just want a quick pint whilst waiting to do something more worthwhile.Westerham beer ok, enjoyed a couple whilst on beer walk.
Not very busy at the time, but not a problem.

Nothing too special but would visit again if in the area.

I visited here with the wife on saturday evening. I usually opt for the TT Landlord but decided on Thwaites Nutty Black as it wasn't very strong (3.3% I think) and we were due to quaff a bottle of wine at a nearby restaurant. It was ok but I've had a lot better black ales. I will definitely return (we always do) and have the TT Landlord.a really lovely little pub, great interior, good beer and decent punters, but I won't be visiting again any time soon. why? stroppy bar staff. last night two bar staff on duty, busily talking amongst themselves. I couldn't catch their attention so my friend took over, calling down to the bar to them. when Mr Stroppy finally deigned to come over (it turns out they knew we were waiting to be served but were ignoring us because they were in the middle of a conversation - a simple 'we'll be with you in a minute' would have been nice) he refused to serve us as he felt that calling out to catch their attention was 'incredibly rude'. though his ignoring us for several minutes was apparently not. go figure. no time for such nonsense, so we took our custom elsewhere. such a shame when a decent boozer is ruined by the staff.So close to greatness it hurts - often very busy, beer very good, but why can't they ever serve a pint which is actually full and what's with the competition to hire the most miserable bar staff in Soho? (A competition the Dog and Duck is close to winning). The management should visit the Harp in Chandros Plcae to see how good a very busy pub can be.

Very much like France it's self;a nice enough place, but full of smelly, horrible,pointless people.Brendan Behan, Tommy Cooper and Suggs have all drunk here.....frankly, that's good enough for me. Great olives on the bar as well. This is a very, very, small one-roomed pub. It’s so small there’s no room for any tables, just stools at the bar and at shelves round the sides of the room. There’s no real ale, and the only lagers are Kronenbourg and Carlsberg. It’s got lots of character with many original features remaining, but with no real ale and a refusal to sell pints (presumably pretentiousness?) it hardly qualifies as a pub. It probably belongs in France.

3 real ales on (and 2 off) when I was there. Nice pub, but can get rather full (of course) and the odd foreign tourist eating fish & chips can provide amusement.Appears nothing special from the street, but step inside and you can spend ages looking around (and up) at the splendid original features. A long bar - and usually a shortage of staff - meaning it can take ages to get served as the place is often crammed with tourists (usually Spanish, for some reason) and Oxford Street shoppers. Six handpumps, but I don't think I've ever seen them all on at the same time. The real ale is served too cold and, as is often the case in Nicholson's pubs, is not quite as good as it should be. Overall, great decor, shame about the pub... Often use this pub on visits to London. Landlord, and Pride always seem to be on as well as a couple of other beers.
Invariably busy with lots of tourists however such is the turnaround it's never too long before a chair becomes available.
Interesting decor.

Great if you have night vision goggles and veeeery long pockets. What's so special about Dutch beer that they think we want to pay those prices? Fantastic pub on the border of China town. Slightly more limited range of beers than I expected, but what they did have was lovely.Excellent Dutch tavern-style bar that exudes a certain panache but I'm not sure why. Perhaps it is the simplicity of it all. Beer lists would be a nice idea guys - try it.
Other than that there is nothing scary about Belgian beers - I recommend either of the Maredsous on tap or the slightly tart Orval on bottle - and of course Chimay. Anything but bloody Stella - use your imagination.....oh and the grub is good. Bitterballen taste very good and are undoubtedly fattening, who cares?

Yes, it's a down to earth, fairly typical non-poseurs pub. But I wasn't very impressed with the Brodies, tried two different ales and both seemed a bit lifeless. Most people were drinking lager - maybe it was a bad night as the football was on the TV ansd the volume was very loud.Recently revisited this pub again after about five years and must say was a very decent evening. They must have had up to 5 or 6 Ales on, all from the Brodies Brewery of East London, all at £3 a pint. Enjoyed the beer so much I had to pop in for a quick one the following day and would have stayed longer but for a train to catch. Just wish it was like this (ie the excellent beers) when I used to work just round the corner from; will visit again when next in town. Quite simply, a gem of a pub with local beer served buy knowledgeable staff

Forgo to mention that there is also some great original art on the walls featuring the likes of Joe Strummer and Keith Richards which I believe is for sale, and I may have to hit the credit card for the Keef one at some point.Great little boozer with a good pint of Pride, well worth a visit for decent pint and a great selection of music playing in the background.Tucked away on Bateman Street this is a pub that you are more likely to stumble across than seek out but once you have you will have found a real gem. If you are looking for a pub to catch up with a friend or to watch the footy (ESPN as well as SKY) in Soho without having to fight your way to the bar against a crashing dance sound track then this is the place for you. It's everything a pub should be when so few are these days.

Nice staff and a good selection of beer, I'll defo be back when I'm in that neck of the woods.

The wife and I popped in for a quick one (drink) before our evening meal on saturday. I had a very nice pint of Courage Best. The pub was very busy but we managed to find the last available seats. The ale selection wasn't exciting - Green King IPA, Deuchars IPA and the Courage were the only ales on. There isn't really much on offer to entice me back but I'd probably pop in if I was nearby and needed to quench the thirst.Visited last night for a 'quick one'. Had two pints of 6X, which was in good condition. Efficient service and I managed to get a seat. Nothing special however I would visit again. Smally slightly shabby Soho corner pub of which there are a number in the vicinity. There's nothing particularly wrong with this pub but if you're looking for something small and quietish (at least during the middle of the week when I last visited) then the nearby Dog and Duck and Bath House are superior alternatives.

Ugh. Well, this is one of those places that you're going to find yourself at some point. It's ok. I mean, it's too small, the toilets a... I don't know, maybe there's a word that can describe them but it escapes me.

The thing I like about this bar is that it plays rock and metal. Everything else about it is totally rubbish. The drinks are overpriced and, come on, Red Stripe in a bloody can?!

Every time I've been in at least one of the bar staff has been in a right strop, I've spent the whole time either suffling past people or shuffling for them to get past, and then you're not allowed to take your drink outside when the smell of stale hippy gets too much.

Good music, open late.
Crap bar, crap toilets, crap booze.

I'm torn...It appears that the hard drinking, hard living crew at the Crobar all had to go home to their mummies over Christmas - very rock n roll!Amazing rock/metal bar. Very welcoming if you're an easy going and pleasant person. Open really late with some classic tracks being played on the jukebox by the regulars who obviously know their stuff. Highly recommended.

This pub was a pleasant surprise. I had low expectations but was met with a good selection of well-kept ales at decent prices. Tim Taylor and Pride are the resident ales, with 4 or 5 guest ales, varying in colour and strength. I also ate in the restaurant upstairs, receiving an OK pub fish and chips and some surly service form a stressed out, overworked spanish(?) waitress for £7.

I was quite taken aback by the appearance of the bar manager in the downstairs bar, about 20 stone with a massive gut hanging out of the bottom of her shirt. Not exactly what you want to look at when thinking of ordering food, but it could save you a few quid I suppose.

I will definitely go back there, especially as it is very close to work.I currently work at the Palladium so the Clachan is my local, we're in here most days and have yet to have a bad pint of ale. They keep all 8 bitters really well, and are constantly bringing in new guest ales. Food is also great and there is a really nice social vibe about the pub. By far the best pub in the area.The ale range was great, could tell that it was well looked after, however the staff did not seem to have much Knowledge on Ales !
The atmoshere was rather quite, but enjoyable. The menu was rather basic which was a little disapointing, but the food arrived quickly tasted great and was well priced for cental London. I will go back, thanks for a fun night

As others have said, a Soho pub that manages to retain that nostalgic 1970s feel (I hadn't visited it for over 25 years - scary). But, it feels like it has seen better days - and there were far more music biz and media people getting pissed after work in the 70s, which made it a much more atmospheric place in some ways. Reasonable pint of Adnams, albeit with something of a generic brown beer taste.An old fashioned boozer of the kind I really like although they are diminishing in number both in Soho and London. The decor was firmly in the 70s but the pub had a certain comfortable ambience and a mixed crowd. Certainly it was quite crowded but the main noise was that of conversation rather than ear splitting music. As has been mentioned earlier the photo is not of this Blue Posts.

Not the best pub in Soho but one where it is possible to have a reasonable evening.Pretty average sort of pub. £3.50 a pint. Not sort of place I would stay in, its one for passing through.

Love it or hate it a great lively sam smiths just off carnaby st. Not open on a sunday though.Nice Sam Smiths pub in Central London that is a refuge from all the crowds. Interior is quite traditional with wood panelling throughout so it has retained it character down the years. The Lounge Bar upstairs is particularly cosy and probably the best part of the pub. Sovereign and OBB well kept and cheap prices too. Toilets were a bit manky with the usual grafetti that you become accustomed to in London.

All in all, I thought this is a decent pub to meet up with friends and have a civilised drink together. I maybe wrong but don't think there's a pub nearby than can better that..??

8/10A Sam Smiths pub which I guess will dictate whether many people like it or not. The wood panelling is quite distinguished and lends the pub a bit of an aura of a gentlemans club (old style rather than one invloving girls called Tracy or Yelena gyrating nakedly in your face for a tenner).

It's quite a deep place with two room separated by a staircase cutting across the bar. Since the back room has no windows and is blocked from the street by said staircase it has a rather gloomy funereal atmosphere even on a sunny spring afternoon. The lack of customers when I was there didn't help either although the pub does get a bonus point for having a dart board.

Another one, like many in the area, that is ok for a pint but not really good for an entire evening.

Unfailingly pleasant. We hadn't been here for months, but were made very welcome by all the staff. Busy, but not packed out, so finding a seat was possible. However, it got much busier when the two adjacent theatres emptied.
A pint of beer without artificial ingredients always tastes good, but at £2 a pint, it tasted even better. Why do all non-London Sam Smith pubs serve real ale but only a minority of their London pubs have it ? Also why the policy of no pork scratchings ? I can only surmise the people who own this brewery are oddballs.Nice pub. One of the few straight pubs in the area. Good selection of unusual beers - so makes a nice change from the usual.

Thankfully this place is still open and as welcoming as ever. On my last visit the other day, the Timmy Taylor was in fine shape & the service was prompt. If I'm meeting mates in town I always suggest this place as a starter.Shockingly bad service by stuck up muppets serving the bar. Beer was not in great shape. Mates of the Bar staff served imediately. Very dodgy clientele

Avoid, so many better pubs near byIs it shut again - I was in a couple of months ago and celebrating the reappearance of a Soho classic. Admittedly it wasn't as splendidly shabby as it used to be but the prime people watching location opposite the Windmill was still full value.

Gutted if this place has shut again.