The Railway, Streatham - pub details
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Address: 2, Greyhound Lane, Streatham, London, SW16 5SD [map] [gmap]
Tel: 0871 951 1000 (ref 6639) - calls cost 10p per minute plus network extras
Streatham Common (0.1 miles), Streatham (0.5 miles), Norbury (0.9 miles)
Pub facilities/features:
- Food served
Pub suggested by Emmanuel on 12 Feb 2004
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> Current user rating: 6.1/10 (rated by 49 users)
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user reviews of the Railway, Streatham
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| Seems like new management here. A refesh of the menu and service has improved. Bit rowdy late at night but overall friendly. Some good events - music and comedy regularly. ralphholland - 25 Aug 2011 16:13 |
| Hi Annette1979 I'm so very sorry that you didn't enjoy your visit to The Railway. Regarding the bar staff, of course we do not condone charging different prices and insist that a receipt is given to every customer. We do not charge £2.00 for a soda water, in fact we charge £1.00 and unlike most pubs these days that is not from a soft drinks gun. We use individual Schweppes bottles for all our mineral mixers. As for the bar staff being miserable, I'm sorry. We are always trying to ensure that customer service is good and it is something that we are particularly focused on improving. Regarding your food, we source the best produce possible at this price, from some of London's best suppliers. This ensures that we make everything from scratch using fresh ingredients of the highest quality. On the day when you came to The Railway, we were using Scotch fore-rib, cooked on the bone which ensures the best flavour in our view and the most tender cut, although it isn't always the easiest meat to present. In truth, we ourselves found the meat to be fattier than normal on this occasion. We let our butcher know on the Monday that we weren't happy about this. It is by no means a cheap cut of beef. Additionally, we use Label Rouge free-range and corn-fed chickens, premium Welsh lamb and Duke of Berkshire pork. We have in fact now gone back to using Scotch Rib-Eye for the beef option to make presentation easier and to minimise the amount of fat on the meat given to customers. railway143 - 25 Mar 2011 15:28 |
| ohhh and about the yorkshire I can kill for it... believe me bar_railway - 20 Mar 2011 05:42 |
| Dear Annette1979, I will start to answering you step by step! The real good and tasty food always deserves the money, I'm telling you this because my mother is far away from me and now I really can appreciate the good home cocked food, but in the railway this feeling disappears! The real staff absorb people mood, so if you had a bad day or a problems , do not expect somebody to resolve it for you we can listen to you, but we are not the people who will resolve it. About your soda water, every other pub can offer it for you for free because they might be using a 'post mix' machine in this case the soda water is almost free but in the railway, we are using real sealed in bottles soda water which is more expensive and of course more qualitative and you can blame 'the coca-cola company' for this. And about the 'miserable' barman (me) I have always try to be helpful and useful for our clients and I apologize if I disappointed you somehow, I was a bit cold last week (for which I don't have excuse) please welcome again if you dare and look for Miroslav, I will make you a great cocktails, on me of course :) bar_railway - 20 Mar 2011 05:37 |
| We've always liked 'The Railway' after living within a 20 minute walk from the pub for the last two years. Food has been a little on the pricey side but worth it and really nice. Staff have always been pretty miserable but you put up with it because the atmosphere is quite nice. Unfortunately after our recent visit yesterday I don't think we'll be going again. The service was worse than usual, no smiles, very miserable. Charged me £7.90 for my first round and then £8.95 for my second one which was exactly the same. Mentioned this and the rude barman said that this was because the person before had only charged me £1.00 for dash of soda water and it should be £2.00!! Can you believe it, £2.00 for soda water!! Every other pub offers it for free. Barman didn't apologise, just walked off miserable. We thought, after this about going somewhere else for food but we'd gone there specifically for they're normally really good roasts and we didn't want to miss out. Ordered three beef roasts. It was awful, completely different to anything we'd had before, the meat was full of fat and cheap cuts. It was on a bed of burnt, small roast potatoes just dumped on the top, yorkshire was tasteless. We even asked the miserable barman if the chef had changed, he just said no and walked off!! This pub used to be pretty good. AWFUL STAFF, AWFUL FOOD, EXPENSIVE, STAY AWAY!! Annette1979 - 14 Mar 2011 09:54 |
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