The Charles Lamb, Angel, Islington - pub details
Used to be: the Prince Albert
Address: 16, Elia St, London, N1 8DE [map] [gmap]
Tel: 08721 077 077 (ref 27839)
Angel (0.2 miles), Old Street (0.8 miles), Farringdon (0.9 miles)
Essex Road (0.7 miles), Old Street (0.8 miles), Farringdon (0.9 miles)
Pub facilities/features:
- Food served, Real ale
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> Current user rating: 6.6/10 (rated by 63 users)
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other pubs nearby:
Prince of Wales, Islington (0.1 miles), BRB at Arc, Angel, Islington (0.1 miles), York, Islington (0.2 miles), Old Red Lion, Islington (0.2 miles), Cafe Med, Angel, Islington (0.2 miles) - see more nearby pubs
user reviews of the Charles Lamb, Angel, Islington
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| Very good pub. Three on pump, including Dark Star and Butcombe. Airy interior which maintains some semblance of separate rooms. It does, as previous reviewers have noted, border on full gastronomic dedication. Almost everyone has to sit facing inwards. Food is expensive. Staff were friendly and offered me a sample of each beer. Not sure about this cctv issue. I'd be interested in knowing where these cameras are. Does Chuck Berry run this pub? BitterShurn - 4 Feb 2010 15:59 |
| I love this pub! It does fab food and the staff are not disinterested (as said below) but chatty and friendly. Do wish you could book a table for lunch but I guess in a way it's a good thing as stops the pub turning into one of those joyless quasi gastro-table service-smug-north-London-hell-holes! Very cosy atmosphere and lovely doggy ( Mascha) who is a real socialite with the customers! Love you Charles lamb! tdm - 30 Jan 2010 13:08 |
| I like this place immensely. I don't know why I've never thought to say something here about it. Great beer, nice food, friendly staff and a dog. What more could I ask for? Apart from a little more room and a hat stand that doesn't fall on me all the time. God bless the Charles Lamb. disgruntledoftufnelpark - 20 Jan 2010 14:02 |
| Decent kept ales at £2.80, or £2.50 with a Camra card makes this worth a visit. I was down with the WRAS boys, slightly disappointed that the hophead was gone, but we didn't encounter any of the problems with bar staff that have been talked about here. Friendly lads, I thought. While the cask ale is well-priced, I was struggling to figure out why the Meantime off the tap in particular was £4.50 a pint, and the other prices I noted were out of my range too. Of course, it's a bourgeois gastro affair, so I feel well out of place, and I wouldn't drink here unless I was with friends. The main concern, though, is the fact that the interior of the pub is monitored by CCTV. What kind of pub distrusts its clientele that much and values its clientele's privacy so low?? In a way I really want to be stopping in for a £2.50 pint of Hophead, and there's not much wrong with the place apart from the fact you want to machine-gun half the punters, but I'm not sure I should abide the constant surveillance. Dimple_mug - 8 Dec 2009 00:27 |
| Completely spoiled by a rude, arrogant and disinterested barman. I took my dad here for a beer last night as he was visiting London and I wanted to take him to a nice pub. I had been once before and liked the place - it's cosy and serves decent ale which is well kept (Butcombe and Dark Star). We sat in the side room, with access to the bar. Having been served a first round by a very pleasant barmaid I made the mistake of ordering the next round from a barman who was more interested in talking to his mate drinking at the bar than in providing customer service. He didn't bother to tell me when my drinks were ready (given my dad drinks Guinness I had returned to our table to talk to him while his drink was settling) and then refused to bring my drinks to the section of the bar where I was standing, forcing me to come round to pick them up from the other room. A shockingly petty thing to do. When I complained he was incredibly rude. I have genuinely never had worse service in any pub I have been to. Incredibly disappointing and, actually, I was pretty furious when I left. I will certainly not be going back, particularly given that The Island Queen and Duke of Cambridge, two of Islington's nicest pubs, are round the corner and staff there have NEVER treated me with such disrespect. guinnessandpotatoes - 17 Nov 2009 14:40 |
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