Founders Arms, Bankside - pub details

Founders Arms
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Address: 52 Hopton Street, Blackfriars, London, SE1 9JH [map] [gmap]

Tel: 020 7928 1899

Nearest tube stations Blackfriars (0.3 miles), Southwark (0.3 miles), Mansion House (0.5 miles)

Nearest DLR station Bank (0.7 miles)

Nearest train stations Blackfriars (0.2 miles), City Thameslink (0.4 miles), London Waterloo East (0.5 miles)

Brewery: Young's

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> Current user rating: 5.5/10 (rated by 70 users)
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user reviews of Founders Arms, Bankside

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A tiny pub!! Don't be a pratt (or is the last remarker really fat?) this is a big pub within. The old pre mid 1970s one around the corner was small. Good beer, fine views. Can't complain. Enjoy!
WILLIAMSTEW - 29 Sep 2008 01:12
Essentially a really tiny pub with a dozen seats inside and outside seating for about eight hundred people. Which all means that you'll have to wait a week to get served by the incomprehensible East European bar staff and then walk half a mile along the river with your overpriced beer and eight mile an hour winds in order to find a seat. Its location is its best asset and hey it's always fun to throw your friend's possessions in the Thames.


agnes_guano - 19 Aug 2008 14:06
Decided to give it a go, after years of walking straight by. The modern interior is well kept, light and airy, and is quite nice considering the grim exterior of this 70’s? building. The usual Young’s suspects were on offer. Had a pint of Special and Ordinary, neither of which tasted quite right to me. (I do have a cold at the moment, which may explain this.)
Bar staff were rather slow and clueless I have to say, however the girl who served me was rather cute, which made the slowness forgivable.
Outside was nice, good view of the river and plenty of tables available, even though it was a sunny afternoon.

mrse1 - 17 Jun 2008 12:07
Essentially a riverside drinking terrace just along the river from the Tate Modern, the rest of the Bankside restaurants and tat shops, Bernie Spain Gardens, etc. Sells the usual Youngs bitters and Bombardier. Busy all the time, I don't doubt.
rainlight - 5 Jun 2008 21:52
After coming back from a job interview a short stroll from the pub I popped in for a pint & as it was a glorious sunny afternoon I thought a cold lager would do the trick. After waiting for about 15 mins to get served (it was about 3.30pm) so presumably all the city workers had gone back to work it was not that busy, why it took so long I don't know. Anyway I asked for a pint of Heineken I was served about 3/4 of a pint at what I thought was £3.18, wrong £3.80!! Avoid this place as it is only for tourists & mugs like me. God knows how much food & wine will be, you may have to take a loan to pay for it. I appreciate that it has to make money but it is scandalous the price I got charged. It is a shame as it is in a great setting right by the Thames, but I hate getting ripped off. Plus I never got the job, shame!!
Jimbob07 - 14 May 2008 16:09

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