The Island Queen, Islington - pub details
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Address: 87, Noel Rd, London, N1 8HD [map] [gmap]
Tel: 0871 951 1000 (ref 5282) - calls cost 10p per minute plus network extras
Angel (0.4 miles), Old Street (0.7 miles), Barbican (0.9 miles)
Essex Road (0.6 miles), Old Street (0.7 miles), London Barbican (1 mile)
Pub facilities/features:
- Quiz night (Tuesday), TV
- Food served, Real ale
- Credit cards accepted
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> Current user rating: 6.0/10 (rated by 115 users)
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user reviews of the Island Queen, Islington
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| Some of the recent comments need balancing (and the scarf story just sounds a bit weird). I was at the Island Queen on Friday for a pre xmas drink with a group of friends - as we've done for the last couple of years - and the service was fine. Even being 'told off' for having drinks outside after 11 was done in a humorous way (I think!). It's still a great looking pub architecturally as people have commented; it has just enough reasonable cask beer on and the food some of us had looked OK. Didn't notice the music being irritating and that's a pet hate of mine. I have to emphasise - the staff were perfectly polite to a beery group of ten blokes who are far from young, beautiful and privileged! PopRoberts - 13 Dec 2011 10:00 |
| Worth visiting for it's architectural merit but if you're not young, beautiful and privileged you will be treated with disdain. rabdes - 27 Nov 2011 10:30 |
| first visit, not really that impressed, like so many naive establishments they seem to think that as more punters arrrive the irritating music thats playing needs to be gradually turned up in increments, service is slow (there was someone skulking in the background not lifting a finger - the manageress?) 4 ales available (non from london despited a plethora of new brewery openings) My Landlord was very sub standard, doubt i'll be back moclips2002 - 22 Nov 2011 20:14 |
| I have been a long term patron of The Island Queen and have often recommended it to people looking for a good pub in Islington. However, the treatment I received at the hands of its present manager, Antonia Orpen, whose customer care skills are beyond appalling and more in the realms of a horrific car crash, simply have to be given as a warning to anyone thinking of using the place. I have never, ever been treated so disgracefully as I have been by this woman, and if the problems others have reported vis a vis bad service are to be believed, then it is little surprise given the atrocious attitude of the person in charge. If I was the owner of this pub I would be horrified to find out that someone as awful at dealing with customers was supposedly the representative of my business. The other day I rang the pub on behalf of my girlfriend to find out if she had left her black scarf in the pub and if it had been found. Ms Orpen reported that it had been but managed to hang up the phone before I had a chance to tell her my name, when the scarf would be retrieved and the name of the person collecting it. I had to ring back, and when I pointed out that she had hung up the phone before I had had the chance to pass on the information, she proceed to scream denials and blue murder down the phone at me. The following day my girlfriend took an hour out to go and retrieve her scarf, but on arrival it had bizarrely gone missing and no such item was to be found. However, when I called the pub back to find out what the story was, there was actually a scarf, but it had turned pink overnight. Ms Orpen proceeded once more to shout down the phone at me and hang up again. I phoned a final time to try and give her a chance to sort this situation out but once again I was shouted at, abused and hung up on. Such epically bad behaviour would usually see an employee fired, but to see it from a manager beggars belief. Such individuals do a disservice to the good pubs we have and eventually will start deservedly impacting on business. Antonia Orpen should think long and hard about her chosen career as she simply is not suited to working with people. Similarly, pub owners Mitchells and Butlers would do well do dispose of her questionable and limited talents before they cost a good pub not just money but also its reputation. qwaiyit - 25 Oct 2011 15:10 |
| I usually take negative reviews with a pinch of salt and assume they get posted by disgruntled punters in their petty attempts to trash a pub's reputation, so after reading the reviews below I visited this pub to ask about hiring their beautiful function room in the hope that they would be proved wrong... sadly everything I'd read turned out to be true! The surly staff made me feel most unwelcome, and leaving with a massive list of conditions for hire of the room, having been told that the only food available for parties was their "Vegetarian Platter"(!), I decided I'd rather go to a nice restaurant where my guests could order whatever food and drink they liked. On the plus side it *is* a really beautiful pub and the function room is a bit special, so much so that I was prepared to make a few comprimises- just not a list as long as my arm. I got the impression that the pub's owners are relying on the pub's admittedly splendid interior a little too much, but when it seems to be pulling in the punters who can blame them? With this pub being a little off the beaten track it would need more than good decord to tempt me back for a second visit. Domestic_Goddess - 10 Aug 2011 20:28 |
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