The Swan, Bayswater - pub details
Address: 66, Bayswater Rd, London, W2 3PH [map] [gmap]
Tel: 020 7262 5204
Lancaster Gate (0 miles), Paddington (0.5 miles), Queensway (0.5 miles)
London Paddington (0.3 miles), London Marylebone (1 mile), Kensington Olympia (1.9 miles)
Pub facilities/features:
- Food served
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other pubs nearby:
Mitre, Paddington (0.1 miles), Harveys Wine Bar, Paddington (0.1 miles), Pride of Paddington, Paddington (0.2 miles), Sawyers Arms, Paddington (0.3 miles), Sussex Arms, Paddington (0.3 miles) - see more nearby pubs
user reviews of the Swan, Bayswater
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| Looks are deceptive. OK if you just want to sit out side, watch the world go by, and chat up the tourists. The beer price was about avaerage for Central London, or perhaps a few pence cheaper. Service was OK so long as you did not ask for anything outside of the staffs limited vocabulary. It advertises itself as a typical English pub, and unfortunately that is what it seems to be. The food is best avoided - a strange eastern interpretation of shepherds pie, and the roast joint was hacked into mince meat rather than carved. Magellan - 16 Aug 2008 12:55 |
| Drifted in here after walking back from Lord's en route to Notting Hill Gate. Was packed with yankee tourists and dodgy Cameroon business men trying to buy my cricket hat. Guitarist strumming foly sing-alongs keeping the Eastern Seaboarders in good voice. Good fun actually, good (ish) atmosphere, amusing landlord who looks like Mafia, and a scary huge KGB agent on the door. Wouldnt go out of my way to come here again, but it didnt cause me any problems. lolwood32 - 19 Jun 2006 12:13 |
| Been to this pub before and returned with trepidation as on previous visits the beer was crap. Was pleasantly surprised as the beer was good and the service was very good. The only downside could be the tourists and delegates attending conferences at the Royal Lancaster Hotel Wee_Paddy - 12 Jun 2006 09:08 |
| Visited this pub recently because my regular haunt when visiting the area has closed down sadly. But will never never never do so again. Untrained unfriendly bar staff who seem to think that a pint of pride with a three inch head is normal. Myself and my friend played a game of spotting the tourist that had been ripped off the most. Never tried the food but a couple of tourists on the next table had the "nachos" which looked totally disgusting and they didn't eat. AVOID AVOID AVOID Reginald_Guinness - 28 Apr 2006 09:22 |
| This is a good bar thoroughly spoiled by shilling for tourist dollars. The signs out front all scream TRADITIONAL FOOD and FRIENDLIEST PUB IN LONDON. Inside, there are so many sign trying to sell tatty souveneir nonsense (does the world need ready access to Swan lighters?) that the actually-quite-good beer (well-poured by a competent, if not effusively friendly, staff) is almost completely forgotten. I suppose it's better to scrabble for tourist money than to go out of business, which has been the recent fate of an excellent pub (the Archery Tavern) just down the road that apparently didn't have sufficiently garish signs. But it's hard to enjoy a beer in a place that feels like everyone in it is primarily there so they can tell their friends back home about going out to a pub. Hodsthorn - 23 Jan 2006 19:07 |
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