The Dog and Duck, Soho - pub details

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Address: 18, Bateman St, London, W1D 3AJ [map] [gmap]

Tel: 08721 077 077 (ref 5660)

Tottenham Court Road (0.2 miles), Leicester Square (0.3 miles), Piccadilly Circus (0.3 miles)

London Charing Cross (0.5 miles), London Waterloo (1.2 miles), London Euston (1.2 miles)

Chain: Nicholson's

Pub facilities/features:

Real ale

Suggested by Keith B on 1 Dec 2003.

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> Current user rating: 6.3/10 (rated by 85 users)

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I visited here with the wife on saturday evening. I usually opt for the TT Landlord but decided on Thwaites Nutty Black as it wasn't very strong (3.3% I think) and we were due to quaff a bottle of wine at a nearby restaurant. It was ok but I've had a lot better black ales. I will definitely return (we always do) and have the TT Landlord.

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Paulb014 - 1 Mar 2010 12:56

a really lovely little pub, great interior, good beer and decent punters, but I won't be visiting again any time soon. why? stroppy bar staff. last night two bar staff on duty, busily talking amongst themselves. I couldn't catch their attention so my friend took over, calling down to the bar to them. when Mr Stroppy finally deigned to come over (it turns out they knew we were waiting to be served but were ignoring us because they were in the middle of a conversation - a simple 'we'll be with you in a minute' would have been nice) he refused to serve us as he felt that calling out to catch their attention was 'incredibly rude'. though his ignoring us for several minutes was apparently not. go figure. no time for such nonsense, so we took our custom elsewhere. such a shame when a decent boozer is ruined by the staff.

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reluctantlondoner - 27 Feb 2010 13:55

So close to greatness it hurts - often very busy, beer very good, but why can't they ever serve a pint which is actually full and what's with the competition to hire the most miserable bar staff in Soho? (A competition the Dog and Duck is close to winning). The management should visit the Harp in Chandros Plcae to see how good a very busy pub can be.

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The_Man_From_Soil - 22 Feb 2010 13:51

Maaaaany years ago this used to be a regular haunt of mine and I went back last week to see how the years had treated it. Well, nothing can take away the fact that this is a gem of pub architecture - offhand, I can't think of another like it. But it seems to have lost something. I had a pint of a beverage called Golden Best that I should think bumps up against the Trades Descriptions Act - Dullish Mediocre might have been nearer the mark. And I did not get the impression that the young lady behind the bar derived much pleasure from her job. Even when, as I suspect, your first language is not English, it is not too hard to master "Good morning, what can I get you?" and "Goodbye, thanks".

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guayabera - 15 Feb 2010 13:50

Smallish street corner Nicholsons pub situated in the heart of Soho. In marked contrast to The Three Greyhounds, from where I had just come, the Dog and Duck has a splendidly preserved Victorian interior which earns it a place in CAMRA's National Inventory of Unspoilt Interiors.

As you enter through the side entrance on Frith Street, note the decorative floor mosaic and the fine wall tiling, some of which notably features motifs of thr two animals in question. Worthy of comment also are two large advertising mirrors and a rather curious mini snug to the left of the side entrance as you go in, which was presumably partitioned off in days long gone.

The Dog and Duck is of course the pub where Madonna, allegedly, developed a penchant for TT Landlord. On my recent Saturday afternoon visit, Landlord was joined behind the bar by the ubiquitous London Pride, Lancaster Amber and, most notably, Ringwood Fortyniner and Thornbridge Kipling. Both the latter two beers were in fine form, particularly the Thornbridge Kipling - a fine pale fruity bitter with an ABV of 5.2%.

There's an upstairs bar and dining room - the George Orwell room - which acts as a useful overspill during the inevitable busy periods. There's also a perilous descent to the downstairs gents.

This is probably my favourite Soho pub - best visited if possible in less busy periods - particularly if you want to admire the decor.

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JohnBonser - 27 Jan 2010 08:44

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