The Wellington, Strand - pub details

Wellington
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Address: 351 The Strand, London, WC2R 0HS [map] [gmap]

Tel: 0871 917 0007 (ref 269)

Nearest tube stations Covent Garden (0.2 miles), Temple (0.3 miles), Embankment (0.3 miles)

Nearest train stations London Charing Cross (0.3 miles), London Waterloo East (0.7 miles), London Waterloo (0.7 miles)

Chain: Nicholson's

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> Current user rating: 5.2/10 (rated by 59 users)
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user reviews of the Wellington, Strand

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In my experience, this pub is always busy due to its location in the heart of theatreland as well as being close to Somerset House (I've been here a couple of times before the outdoor gigs there). As its a Nicholsons you won't find a vast array of guests but the ales they do stock are extremely well kept. I'm not one to usually rave about pub food but the fish and chips here are amongst the best I've had. Not one to neccesarily go out of your way for but you could do a lot worse.
ChrisP87 - 6 Jan 2009 15:37
London Pride, Deuchars IPA and Cairngorm Autumn Nuts on – the latter at £2.90 a pint, and it was in excellent nick as well. This is a longish, narrow corner pub at the Aldwych end of The Strand. It is bare-boarded now, but does have an attractive plaster decorated ceiling that looks as if it might be original, as well as a rather nice red marble fireplace at the back of the ground floor bar and some marble facing on the walls.

It didn’t seem very welcoming when I was in there at noon the other day. The service was OK, but the door was being kept open (expecting deliveries?) making it fairly cold inside, plus there were some cleaning materials still on the bar making me feel a little like I had arrived before anyone was expected. A couple of girls in there for the breakfast kept their thick coats on the whole time. I suppose if I came at another time it would be warm and welcoming. This used to be one of my locals in the 70s – when they did Bass and Charrington’s IPA. At least the beer has improved. I remember one of our group saying that he would give up beer when it reached £1 a pint – he never did! It’s still OK as a pub, but I don’t think that I would go out of my way to visit though.
RexRattus - 12 Dec 2008 17:52
In last night. Batemans XXXB, Pride, Pedigree, Landlord and Cairngorm Autumn Nuts which was good. Basically your bog standard Nicholsons.
GuideDogSaint - 27 Nov 2008 23:53
I visited this pub with my family on Sunday 19th October 2008 we had spent the day visiting various locations in the area and were looking forward to having a traditional sunday pub lunch and we chose the Wellington because we had visited it earlier in the year and enjoyed the atmosphere and the service. May I say on this occasion we were very dissapointed with the standard of customer service we received, when we arrived we waited about 10mins to be seated which we didn't mind because having been before we new it would be worth the wait when we was seated it became obvious to us that although the upstairs was not full there didn't seem to be enough staff to clear the tables it was 2.35pm when we were seated and after about 10mins we had our order taken we asked for coffee, tea, and a couple of pints only to be told they wasn't serving hot drinks that day, not a problem we said so we ordered soft drinks we ordered 2 steak and ale pies and 2 sunday roasts and began our wait during this time we noticed some customers get up to go and refuse to pay for their meal because it had not arrived at the same time as their company and when it did it was cold we continued to wait still not too worried thinking it was probably a one off, then as more people arrived in couples and got served before us we thought perhaps there was a problem this was by now over 1hr later when a family of 4 who had been seated at the same time as us mentioned to the waitress that they were still waiting for one of their meals, the waitress just told them not to worry and it shouldn't be too much longer another customer seated next to this family said to the waitress this was unacceptable service as the rest of the family had already eaten their meal the waitress dismissed this comment, I did manage to catch the waitresses eye with a wave to ask if our meal was going to be much longer, I asked her very politley and she raised her voice to me and told me quite abrubtly that I had not been waiting very long and dismissed me, by this time we had been in the place 1hr 20mins another waitress came over to me to show me our order receipt with the time we placed the order to try to reasure us and it was not even our receipt I counted that 12 people had been served after we arrived but was told by the waitress that orders for 2 always came before larger orders my family and I decided to leave and as we did the waitress in question aproached me and asked me rather rudely in a very high tone that she did not shout at me in front of other customers, I have worked as a waitress and still work with the public and always remain curtious, I will not be visiting this establishment again and would not reccommend it to anyone else I come across I feel that I took the brunt of the way this waitress was feeling and I believe they were under staffed even the cheff came upstairs while all this was going on a very dissapointed customer.
traveller00 - 24 Oct 2008 16:47
Visited this pub yesterday Afternoon as part of "THE THEATRELAND" Dick Whittington Beer Trail. Three cask Conditioned Ales on offer London Pride, Marstons Pedigree, But I went for Landlord. Nice area outside on the pavement to sit and People watch. Very busy place with Tourists but good qick service. Worth a return visit.
Drunken_Duck - 11 Jul 2008 11:42

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