The Lords Tavern, St John's Wood - pub details
Address: St. Johns Wood Rd, London, NW8 8QP [map] [gmap]
Tel: 020 7266 5980
St. Johns Wood (0.5 miles), Maida Vale (0.6 miles), Warwick Avenue (0.6 miles)
London Marylebone (0.6 miles), South Hampstead (1 mile), London Paddington (1 mile)
Pub facilities/features:
- Outside seating
Pub suggested by Ruby on 5 Aug 2003
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> Current user rating: 3.9/10 (rated by 8 users)
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other pubs nearby:
Windsor Castle, Maida Vale (0.3 miles), Robert Browning, Maida Vale (0.3 miles), Traders Inn, Lisson Grove (0.3 miles), Duke Of York, St John's Wood (0.4 miles), Warrington Hotel, Maida Vale (0.4 miles) - see more nearby pubs
user reviews of the Lords Tavern, St John's Wood
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| First time in here for years after the SA test three weeks ago. Jay28 sums it up perfectly - the only thing he missed was the cricket nerds that haunt the place -not the bulbous red nosed jowly ones but the crooked teeth ones who keep a scorecard and leer at passing 10 year olds. There are much better pubs down near Warwick Avenue so there's no real reason to go in here unles you hope to catch a glimpse of a cricket great from yesteryear. I've seen people like Clive Lloyd and Mike Procter in here although they obviously do not fall into either cateory mentioned above. murgatroyd - 3 Aug 2008 23:17 |
| Hearing the Lords Tavern spoken of on the radio/TV one conjures up an image of merrie olde England, the hogsheads of foaming ale, the rosy cheeked and large breasted barmaid carrying slopping tankards to the wooden tables of roistering salt-of-the-earth types. The floor covered with reeds and detritus and perhaps a dog or two skulking around under the tables looking for tidbits. The roaring log fires with high backed chairs pulled up around where the Doctor and the Parson sit debating the issue of the day with the Squire over their long claypipes full of pungent tobacco. Well, the reality is somewhat different. The Tavern is in fact a ground floor room in what looks like a 1960s office block (think concrete, steel and glass). You enter through patio doors into what can only be described as a trendy wine bar. Upon entering I was eyed over by a chap who I assumed was the manager/maitre'd and was grudgingly allowed to pass to the bar (although it was touch and go as my desert combat boots and jeans didn't really seem to be his cup of Earl Grey with lemon). Most of the room is given over to a restaurant but there are a few tables for drinkers if you can get one. The selection of beers is fair, but leans heavily in the direction of lager. Two handpumps serve Marstons ales, which were not in great shape and the staff did not seem to have been instructed in the correct use of the handpumps. The prices are quite remarkably high with some of the lagers topping the £4/pint mark, very poor, even by London standards, as drinkers we really shouldn't be giving our custom to these profiteers whoch charge such a premium for grog. Service is slow and gormless, most of the bar staff seemed to be skulking in some backroom or kitchen, there was a lad at the bar who served me, but the next few customers who came in after me had to wander round to the kitchen to ask to be served. My dander was further elevated by a couple of pissed expense account twerps in MCC ties braying and giggling at one of the restaurant tables. Where do these arseholes come from? Are they vomitted out of some government laboratory in the City with their shining pates, jowls and double breasted pinstripe already fully formed? Never have I been so sorely tempted to walk over to a human being and administer an unprovoked kick up the arse. So, Thanks Lord's Tavern, yet another illusion shattered. For those of you who don't want shattered illusions and empty wallets steer clear of this bar. I can best sum it up as "Run for wankers by wankers". 2/10 Jay28 - 20 May 2008 13:23 |
| Someone took the character out of this place and replaced it with ikea style furniture. Good place to meet high maintenance SA girls though. its_too_hot - 24 Nov 2005 17:03 |
| I walked into this pub and felt like asking "do you serve working class people?" because it looks like hideously bland posh place. It's hard to describe - it's worse than a wine bar, it's worse than a gastropub, it's like a dull refurbished office with a few cricket pictures on the wall. But then I went and sat outside on the patio and there's was some horrible family celebrating a wedding or funeral or something - hard to tell really. Their scummy kids were even pissing against the side of the patio, which in hindsight was a far more preferably option to having a drink there. travis - 11 Oct 2004 16:29 |
| I live around the corner from the new "Lords Bar and Brasserie" (used to be called Lords Tavern) i had only been there a couple of times in the last 4 years. The changes they have made are fantastic, and i can say this will be my local now. The food is supurb and the staff very professional and helpful. I couldnt fault this place at all. Harry - 15 Jun 2004 13:50 |
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