De Hems, Soho - pub details
| [image 2] |
![[image 2]](http://img01.beerintheevening.com/0a/0a361745019417d83f10c566071f8a25.jpg){kind=link}
Address: 11 Macclesfield Street, London, W1D 5BW [map] [gmap]
Tel: 08721 077 077 (ref 745)
Leicester Square (0.2 miles), Piccadilly Circus (0.2 miles), Covent Garden (0.3 miles)
London Charing Cross (0.4 miles), London Waterloo (1.1 miles), London Waterloo East (1.1 miles)
Pub facilities/features:
- Food served
- Late licence (Midnight opening most weekdays)
NB: Information may be incomplete or out of date as this pub is not currently registered.
Are you the Licensee? Click here.
other pubs nearby:
Golden Lion, Soho (0.0 miles), brb At Soho, Soho (0.0 miles), French House, Soho (0.0 miles), Crooked Surgeon, Leicester Square (0.1 miles), Hogshead, Leicester Square (0.1 miles) - see more nearby pubs
user reviews of De Hems, Soho
please note - reviews on this site are purely the opinion of site visitors, so don't take them too seriously.
5 most recent reviews of 103 shown - see all reviews
| Nice convivial cosy atmosphere, good range of belgian beers on tap including 2 types of Maredsous as well as bottles (including the excellent Tripel Karmeliet) A nice place to chill in the centre of London. Staff could be a bit friendlier though. Scottie_chorlton - 1 Jun 2010 11:19 |
| I fricking love this place. Yesh, I do. Being a regular visitor to brown cafes in Amsterdam, this is the closest that London gets. It is 'gezellig'(convivial), relaxed, serves a decent pint and is a great place to just meet people in the least get-out-of-my-face way that London tends to have. You will always find Lowlanders here - be it behind the bar where you can hear them chatter in their funny language to each other or visitors who go there to meet other Beneluxians. They have a good, if the usual, range of beers & serve Dutch delicacies for a good price. The location is fantastic and is a good staple for any night out in the Soho area. Best days to go are the Dutch Queens Day (around 30th April) or Sinterklaas (5th December) - then it comes into its own Moose82 - 21 Apr 2010 17:08 |
| Great if you have night vision goggles and veeeery long pockets. What's so special about Dutch beer that they think we want to pay those prices? guayabera - 22 Jan 2010 16:16 |
| My first visit here for many a year and for a Dutch bar that trades heavily on it's Dutch connections and history, it is very sad to see that they have very few Dutch beers on offer - come on, there are loads of great new Dutch beers other than Amstel, Heineken etc - let's face it, we could do with a change from the usual Belgian suspects. [The same problem applies to the Lowlander on Drury Lane). According to http://www.classicpubs.co.uk/dehemsdutchcafebarsoholondon/ this place is supposed to be committed to real ales - didn't see any handpumps. I asked to look at a bottle of Rodenbach Grad Cru from the chiller cabinet - the barmaid said "you dont want to drink that, it tastes of vinegar". Perhaps a bit of staff training wouldn't go amiss. There is a sign in here that suggests the Dutch like a big head on their beers (not really true - it's just their glasses allow for this and the legal measurement) and this seems to be an excuse for serving quite short pints. They'll give you a top up without any quibbling but it's shoddy practice all the shame. Nevertheless it is well worth a visit... eddierowles - 17 Dec 2009 08:21 |
| Fantastic pub on the border of China town. Slightly more limited range of beers than I expected, but what they did have was lovely. icc97 - 30 Sep 2009 11:21 |
see more reviews |
| Copyright Neransk Limited 2001-2010. All Rights Reserved. Calls to 0871 and 0872 numbers cost 10p/min. |