Wheatsheaf, Southwark - pub details
Address: 24 Southwark Street, Southwark, London, SE1 1TY [map] [gmap]
London Bridge (0.2 miles), Borough (0.3 miles), Cannon Street (0.5 miles)
Bank (0.6 miles), Tower Gateway (0.9 miles)
London Bridge (0.2 miles), Cannon Street (0.5 miles), Blackfriars (0.7 miles)
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> Current user rating: 7.4/10 (rated by 32 users)
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user reviews of Wheatsheaf, Southwark
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| Some people appear to like to have a moan for the sake of it. Talk of a "baffling policy on showing football" being "frankly bizarre" and leaving "a poor taste in the mouth". Absolutely hilarious. Have you picked up the toys thrown out of the pram? Perhaps a good thing to do would be to ask why. The staff are always friendly and polite and willing to help / explain. Might be be more mature to do that before posting something so 'dramatic'.... alan_latchley - 10 Mar 2010 08:52 |
| Having visited the pub on last wednesday very early I can't say anything about the atmospehere because there were only about four or five people in the whole pub. At 3,20 each I had two very good pints, one Burton Bridge Mild XL and one Whitstable Oyster stout. Definitely worth a visit after a market tour. Pidley2547 - 10 Mar 2010 08:33 |
| I am a regular at the Sheaf and can confirm that the no football on saturday policy is because of trouble. It may be Borough Market but is also Millwall's stomping ground. Only 2 weeks ago The Globe was trashed by football fans and all the windows smashed. Sat football is a real problem in the area as all travelling teams come in thru London Bridge. jolyon - 1 Mar 2010 11:43 |
| SE1 is the best area of London for good pubs in my opinion, with many great examples packed all within walking distance of each other. Just around the corner from Borough Market lies the newly relocated Wheatsheaf, a large cellar bar that was a welcome retreat from the cold outside. It has one large bar which permanently serves Youngs Special and Bitter, and an impressive array of guests which on my visit included ales from Red Car, Wolf, Elgood, Nethergate and other breweries. My pints of Red Car Best and Elgood Copper Feelgood were £3.10 and £3.20 respectively, about standard for the area although I would agree with some of the other reviewers that it was a little on the cold side. I quite liked it here and would return, and it would certainly figure as part of an SE1 pub crawl but my only gripe would be there baffling policy on showing football. The pub has sky sports, but upon my asking whether they would mind switching it to the Everton v Manchester United game, I was told 'we don't show football on saturdays'. I don't quite understand this; are they worried about trouble? This is borough market for pity's sake, the only trouble you get round here is some scallywag being overcharged for his organic free range fair trade Fennel. Are they happy to show football the rest of the week? They seemed perfectly content to show golf and cricket, which obviously are less troublesome. Or maybe they rotate depending on the day? Frankly bizarre. And left a poor taste in the mouth really. ChrisP87 - 21 Feb 2010 13:52 |
| Could be a great pub, but on a recent visit it was let down by one twat of a staff who insisted on having the back door open "because the staff are hot". The fact that dozens of customers didn't want the sudden blast of freezing air was a matter of indiference to him. Needs a manager that puts the comfort of the customers first. D_J_C - 30 Jan 2010 10:06 |
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