The Crown and Anchor, Covent Garden - pub details
Address: 22, Neal St, London, WC2H 9PS [map] [gmap]
Tel: 08721 077 077 (ref 11646)
Covent Garden (0.1 miles), Leicester Square (0.3 miles), Tottenham Court Road (0.3 miles)
London Charing Cross (0.4 miles), London Waterloo (1 mile), London Waterloo East (1 mile)
Pub facilities/features:
- TV
- Quiz machines
- Food served, Real ale, Cocktails
- Credit cards accepted, Function room for hire
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> Current user rating: 5.1/10 (rated by 17 users)
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user reviews of the Crown and Anchor, Covent Garden
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| This was the pub I spent my last evening in before getting married in the mid 90s and I have to shamefully admit I probably haven't been in it since. It's been refurbished since then although not in a bad way. Most of the customers were refugees from the nearby shopping streets (which have improved dramatially in that time). Ales were Spitfire Harveys Best and Deuchars IPA. There was slightly too loud RnB style music on which I don't like and would discourage me from returning in the daytime but overall this is a decent pub. murgatroyd - 24 Dec 2009 05:58 |
| Went in there last night (Friday) and it was packed, 3 staff & the landlord. A bit of a squeeze to get to the bar but once there was served very quickly (by the landlord). I had the Pedigree and my 2 friends had the Harveys and they were as good if not better than anywhare else in the area so we stayed for a couple. Well worth a visit if your up for a lively night out with a quality beer. soothpark - 25 Jul 2009 12:41 |
| Shockingly bad service in here last Friday night. You need decent staff on a Friday evening in Covent Garden. Place was not that busy but took an age to get served, staff had no idea who was next. its not rocket science. Avoid HENDO - 17 Jun 2009 16:32 |
| They had Pedigree, Spitfire and Harvey’s Bitter on. The Harveys was £3 a pint, and tasted OK. This is a small corner pub on bustling Neal St, and which I found to be clean and comfortable. It’s bare-boarded throughout, and has one large flatscreen TV, but which was not on when I visited early lunchtime on Wednesday. It’s quite nicely decorated, with some shelving between the main room and stairs cluttered with miscellaneous nick-knacks. I didn’t eat there, but the menu looked reasonably priced and unpretentious. This is a decent enough pub without being anything special. RexRattus - 27 Feb 2009 22:07 |
| I visited the Crown and Anchor on Saturday, and went inside thinking it would be a typical London pub. I'd just come off an incredibly delayed train journey, and then caught the tube from London Euston to Covent Garden, and needless to say, I was tired, and needed some food to refresh me! I needed my energy for an audition I was going to, just down the road, literally, at the London Film School, and therefore, I thought the Crown and Anchor would be the perfect refreshment stop. I walked in, and it seemed quite pokey and small, but the typical of a London pub. Even the man, who no doubt was a nice, pleasant man when not a raving alcoholic at just past 12pm - at the bar, ranting and raving about being imprisoned in Strangeways in Manchester, but now living in Hackney - added to that glorious London feel, and I love London. I looked at the menu, and it seemed suitably lengthy (especially as gastropub's now tend to have immensly concise and restrictive menu's, which do nothing for my appetite. I like choice!), with a good selection of starters and mains, but no pudding, which was quite disappointing. I like a pudding. Anyway, I ordered the Steak and Guinness pie, which apparently came with chips and vegetables, for £6.95, but stipulated to the girl at the bar that I wanted double vegetables and no chips, instead of chips. I'm quite terrified of potato. She was lovely, but evidently vacant, as the meal came within fifteen minutes, with chips, perhaps one or two brussell sprouts, and something vaguely resembling pastry. I was expecting a PIE - as in, in a dish, with a crust, and with meat on the inside, oozing with it's Guinness enhancement - but instead, I got what looked like a tin of stewed steak on the plate, and an actual piece of puff pastry. The plate was freezing, as generally was the food, and it was all doused heavily with black pepper. I informed the girl that I'd wanted double vegetables and not chips, but she said I could have the chips anyway, and when I actually tried them, they were the hottest part of the meal. The steak was tough, tasteless, and in quite a greasy sauce, and the puff pastry much the same. The brusell sprouts were hard, the carrots cold, and the seasoning incessantly over powering. And no pudding! A pudding would've been hotter, and I need something to fill my tummy on these cold days. Plus, numerous times throughout my 'meal', the Hackney alcoholic kept coming over, and talking about fish. He even managed to spit on me, in his recollections of sea life. I've rated this pub 5 simply because I love Covent Garden, and the decor is typical of London pubs. Other than that, the food's dreadful, and there's no pudding. The resident drunk tops it all off. I wouldn't go hear again, especially as two hours later, I found myself in the toilets in quite a hurry, at The British Museum. Pleasant. APPLEFLAPtopia - 10 Feb 2009 13:08 |
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