The Crosse Keys, Bank - pub details

Crosse Keys
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Address: 9 Gracechurch Street, London, EC3V 0DR [map] [gmap]

Tel: 08721 077 077 (ref 1473)

Nearest tube stations Monument (0.2 miles), Bank (0.2 miles), Cannon Street (0.3 miles)

Nearest DLR stations Bank (0.2 miles), Tower Gateway (0.5 miles)

Nearest train stations Cannon Street (0.3 miles), Fenchurch Street (0.3 miles), Moorgate (0.5 miles)

Chain: Wetherspoons

Pub facilities/features:
Cask Marque accreditation

Pub suggested by Alistair on 5 Dec 2002

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> Current user rating: 5.9/10 (rated by 89 users)
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user reviews of the Crosse Keys, Bank

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A real ale lovers Mecca.

a) permanent mini beer festival with up to 24 ales available.

b) £2.40 a pint £2.30 at festival times

c) Beer always in excellent condition. I can only recall sending one pint back in 100's. Beer topped up without question.

Clean environment, friendly helpful bar staff. Service stretched at peak lunchtimes


Polypinmath - 15 Mar 2010 14:37
Visited recently on a Friday night, although packed never waited more than a couple of minutes at the bar to be served, great choice of ales and even the food was good.
tophops - 11 Mar 2010 11:50
Another good night in the Crosse Keys and this probably still remains as my favourite Spoons, mainly because it’s more like a mini regional beer festival with comfy seats.
And as mentioned by other reviewers, experience is that the bar staff are hard working and know how to pull a pint, which is something you cant say of most provincial ‘spoons.
Can appear cavernous when not busy, but its huge size is definitely a benefit on a weekday evening when it can accommodate several 100 of the City after work crowd but still be comfortable. 22 ales on last night, all from the January guest list of smaller breweries and micro breweries and without the ubiquitous JDW house beers anywhere in sight.
The ale listings on the plazma screens around the bar are a definite benefit. Tried a few and the Skinners Figgy’s brew was a nice pint, and the Tring Brewery Tring side pocket for a toad was worth ordering for the name alone.

Gann - 31 Jan 2010 22:54
A cavern of a pub, with lots of atmosphere, so noisy you can hardly think. More real ales than you can shake a stick at, possibly all with cheesy xmas related names. I'd recommend the 'Escape Clause', one of the nicest pints I've had in a while. As usual for a Wetherspoons, but unusual for the City, the afternoon punters veer towards pensionable age, but after 5 it starts to fill up with suits. One thing I noticed, men outnumber women by about 30 to 1.

I want to know where all those women are going!?
Moz - 12 Dec 2009 00:43
Has so many beers on (hoorah!) that they now have screens showing the list of ales available so you can order by number to make it quicker. Fair enough, good idea. Except.... the first 3 beers I ordered weren't actually on as it hadn't occured to anyone to update the list - d'oh! Oh, and the bloke who served me put ice in the glasses first. When I asked why, he said it was to cool the beer! WTF?!!! So much for Wetherspoon's promise that only lagers would be served cold (to remove any small traces of taste they ever had). Groan!
Darren_in_the_City - 11 Dec 2009 10:36

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