O'Neills, Holborn - pub details
Address: 40 Great Queen Street, London, WC2B 5AA [map] [gmap]
Tel: 020 7242 5560
Holborn (0.2 miles), Covent Garden (0.2 miles), Leicester Square (0.4 miles)
London Charing Cross (0.5 miles), City Thameslink (0.8 miles), Farringdon (0.9 miles)
Chain: O'Neills
Pub added by dsf. Last visited on 16th Mar 2003.
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> Current user rating: 6.2/10 (rated by 23 users)
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user reviews of O'Neills, Holborn
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| Nastic speaks the truth. Its not what it was, used to be the business for a booze up, burger and the football. I haven't been served off the same person twice, it used to be a local in the town. Its just another average pub with average everything. Damn shame. spaceman - 9 Apr 2008 16:10 |
| Not the same since the Catalan manager left... nastic - 28 Mar 2008 12:13 |
| I've been watching rugby in here for the last year or so since I was looking for somewhere to watch Wasps v Leinster in the Heineken Cup. The regular staff are friendly and often come round the tables topping up our round & any pub which puts rugby on the big screen and football on the smaller TV in the back is good in my book. JonF - 6 Oct 2007 11:49 |
| If Yates and Spoons are the Beirut and Satan’s arsehole of publand, then O’Neils is undoubtedly Wolverhampton. Not particularly offensive and well, I suppose an area where everyone wears the same tracksuit and owns an Astra has as much right to exist as anywhere else, but well, it all feels like a bit of a waste doesn’t it? Certainly visiting the Euston or the other Covenant Garden O’Neils encourages the feeling that these bland outlets, fitted with the same deep brown furnishings and twee Orish music of the “did-da-lee-luck-of-de-Leprechaun” variety, are taking up space where a decent pub could exist. And while I like Guinness and big comedy hats as much as the next man, I don’t really need them forced down my throat by staff who are generally hired for their cheapness rather than their glowing personalities. However, this particular outlet does show that despite the disadvantage of a brand, a decent manager and building can just about make a good drinking experience from unpromising material. It does contain the same bland features as described above, but these usual trappings are toned down significantly, with the standard garish promotional adds and reproduced Orish tat generally missing. They even play the odd tune that sounds like it was composed after the nineteenth century and not recorded on a Waterford potato farm. This all allows the usual worn and dark brown furnishings to come through and create a fairly cosy atmosphere, especially as this is a very snug O’Neils, with a couple of small areas weaving together around the main bar. It does as a consequence suffer from a bit of overcrowding at the weekends, but generally it is fairly easy to get a seat (during the week and latish at the weekend) while the clientele tends to lack the usual chaved up wank bandits that sometimes afflict this chain. Of course though, underneath it`s still an O’Neils and while mostly cosy and enjoyable, it has only marginally more character than your average ironing board. Equally the taps, while fairly varied (a brownie point the chain has over most other brands) is on the expensive side comparatively and served by staff that are only just about able to speak English and move marginally faster than the recently deceased. Still this is one of the better O’Neils and deserves a solid 6/10. pgazz - 24 Dec 2006 00:29 |
| Yeah, lovely staff aren't commmon - if your idea of a pub is a chain bar owned by a massive which pubco with all the things that entails. Get yourself to a proper pub and you will see that a smile and good service are not so rare after all in London! anonymous - 5 Jun 2006 10:08 |
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