The Dickens Inn, Tower Hill - pub details

Dickens Inn
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Address: St. Katharines Way, London, E1W 1LB [map] [gmap]

Tel: 0871 917 0007 (ref 3905)

Nearest tube stations Tower Hill (0.4 miles), Aldgate (0.6 miles), Aldgate East (0.7 miles)

Nearest DLR stations Tower Gateway (0.4 miles), Shadwell (0.8 miles), Bank (1 mile)

Nearest train stations Fenchurch Street (0.5 miles), London Bridge (0.7 miles), Cannon Street (0.9 miles)

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Suggested by Darren in the City on 14 Aug 2003.

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> Current user rating: 5.3/10 (rated by 49 users)
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Thomas More, Wapping (0.2 miles), Mint, Tower Hill (0.2 miles), Browns, Tower Bridge (0.2 miles), All Bar One, Tower Bridge (0.2 miles), Dean Swift, London Bridge (0.2 miles) - see more nearby pubs

 

user reviews of the Dickens Inn, Tower Hill

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I was invited to this pub because of a friends birthday, having never been before I had a look at some of the reviews on here and consequently went along with trepidation, I expected rubbish service and all the things that people complain of. Im not about to say that everyone was wrong but I was surprised, it wasn't as bad as I expected. The pub is in an amazing setting, and you obviously pay the prices for being in the dock, it was lovely enjoying a couple of cold ones sitting outside surrounded by the boats. I didn't eat here and in honesty I wouldn't come back because in spite of the views it is a tourist trap, my overall feeling of the place would be that it is what a visitor might expect a British pub to look like.
trickydisco - 4 Apr 2009 00:34
Tourist trap! Such a lovely looking place, that clearly survives on tourists. No-one with any sense would ever go back! We tried the pizza restaurant on level 1 and were very disspointed. The staff were rude and lazy, the place wasn't busy and there were 4 or 5 waiters but they moped around so slowly and left food sitting waiting to be served for so long that our pizza was cold. Would not return or recommend.
BernH - 17 Mar 2009 15:07
Looks like a tourist trap restaurant to me, but they did have some of the usual suspects on – Pride, Bombardier, Adnam’s bitter. Tourist prices as well I’m afraid. Nevertheless it does have a rather splendid setting in St Katherine’s dock though. Not really my sort of place – I prefer somewhere a little more “pub-like”, but it serves its purpose in a fairly attractive part of London.
RexRattus - 20 Feb 2009 23:15
visited a few days ago the grolsch was warm in the downstairs pub, decided to have a pizza in the restaurant upstairs, the place was very busy so why employ so few staff, the service was a joke, ordered drinks and a pizza and got the pizza before the drinks, the problem is that its a tourist haven one visit never to return if it was a not a tourist pub the locals would never use it more than once. 2 waiting staff to cover a packed restaurant.
gruppe8 - 3 Nov 2008 12:42
Very touristy though the Bombardier was passable. Early Friday evening but unlike John Bonser's experience there were no 'heavies' on duty. Perhaps the previous review took place during a football tournament.
rainlight - 22 Aug 2008 20:33

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