Mechanical Elephant, Margate - pub details
Address: 28/30 Marine Terrace, Margate, Kent, CT9 1XJ [map] [gmap]
Margate (0.3 miles), Westgate-on-sea (1.9 miles), Broadstairs (3.3 miles)
Chain: Wetherspoons
Pub facilities/features:
- Real ale
- Wireless internet access (provided by The Cloud)
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> Current user rating: 3.3/10 (rated by 11 users)
> Local guide: Kent pub guide
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Sheldons, Margate (0.2 miles), Waverley, Margate (0.2 miles), Flag and Whistle, Margate (0.2 miles), Quart in a Pint Pot, Margate (0.3 miles), Barnacles, Margate (0.3 miles) - see more nearby pubs
user reviews of Mechanical Elephant, Margate
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| I hate chain pubs but oddly my visit to this one was excellent. Helpful staff, food served quick and good for what it was (basic burger and chilli, much better than my local Weatherspoons), barman was better than waiters in some restaurants. Beer was good. Cheap. But in Margate there is not much competition it has to be said. ladyday - 19 Jul 2008 17:16 |
| I had the misfortune of having a drink here after missing a train home from Margate one afternoon, and I wished I'd spent a little more money and drank in the hotel next to the station. I can't even remember what I had to drink as I was preoccupied with the filth of the place. They hadn't banned smoking at this point so ash trays were over-flowing causing ash and cigarette ends to fall all over the tables and floors, and I didn't dare put my pint down for fear of the air conditioning (or fire doors being open causing a draft) to blow anything into my glass. I'll give this place a 2/10 overall. The barmaid who served me was friendly enough and even though I forget what I had to drink I don't remember thinking to myself that it was bad. The whole place was quiet too, which made me glad I wasn't there when one of the infamous Margate youth groups kicked off. Pete84 - 28 Mar 2008 23:46 |
| No change in the last six months,then. I went in Saturday morning for a pint and breakfast as I was on my way to help out at the beer festival. Filthy tables as usual littered with dirty ashtrays, plates and glasses. My pint of Stout was eventually served but the service was pitifully slow - only two behind the ramp and one of those was also bustling around with food orders. I actually felt sorry for the poor wretches. Breakfast was virtually inedible, but I thought the two lost souls condemned to Margate's equivalent of purgatory, were suffering enough without me adding to their woes. The stout was very good, although because of the obscene amounts of ale quaffed over the course of the weekend, I cannot recall "marque et modele". I received a full pint, amazingly enough. The usual selection of scrotes, scallies, pikeys, chavs, Thanet inbreds and ne'er-do-wells were much in evidence. I had the cheapskate contingent sitting next to me moaning about the fact that one of them went to the beer festival, to be asked for an admission fee of £3.00 including commemorative glass and programme, and that beer was £2.50 a pint. What the semi-literate did not mention was that there were 200 ales ALL in the finest of condition going up to a bollock-twisting 10.5% ABV!! The best thing that can happen is that this carbuncle is either sold to a local entrpreneur with the initials J.G., with predictable results for those who know of the said individual, or alternatively, lock the place shut with the inmates inside, and set about it with the wrecking-ball! 1/10 - for feeling pity for the poor sods that were working there! 5thearlofwimbourne - 11 Apr 2007 16:03 |
| A slightly below average Wetherspoons. Unfortunately if you're in Margate this is one of the only places you'll be able to find ale, so inevitably I come here if I'm in the area. Quite fun to watch the hordes of drunken louts try to start fights with eachothe. I've only got grief a couple of times, usually chavs taking offence at the fact I have long hair (how dare I, honestly) They seem to run out of their ales on a regular basis, so although it may look like they have 10 ales on, it's actually more like 5. Which includes Spitfire and Courage Best (You'd have to pay me to drink Courage). So in reality they'll only have 3 ales.... Thebman - 28 Jan 2007 19:13 |
| The usual mid-afernoon dross sitting outside and inside. Once you'd gotten past them and to the bar, you encounter the one solitary person whose badge claims that she is a supervisor. There were only two others and I at the bar, and she couldn't work out who was next to be served. I was served a reasonable pint of Hopdaemon "Incubus", and took my place at one of the few vacant ( and dirty, glass bedecked ) tables. The toilets were spotless. I returned to my pint just in time to see a reasonably well turned out inebriate swerve in to the bar area, survey the back-bar area whilst gently swaying in the non-existent breeze, and swerve back out. Back up to 1/10 for entertainment value only. Hey-ho, onward to Yates's 5thearlofwimbourne - 5 Sep 2006 10:59 |
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