The Picture Palace, Ponders End - pub details
Address: Howard Hall, Lincoln Rd, Ponders End, Enfield, Middlesex, EN3 4AQ [map] [gmap]
Tel: 0871 917 0007 (ref 8090)
Southbury (0.4 miles), Ponders End (0.6 miles), Bush Hill Park (1 mile)
Chain: Wetherspoons
Pub facilities/features:
- Food served, Real ale
- Wireless internet access (provided by The Cloud)
Pub suggested by dan on 27 May 2004
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> Current user rating: 5.8/10 (rated by 13 users)
> Local guide: Middlesex pub guide
other pubs nearby:
Goat, Ponders End (0.3 miles), Cock Tavern, Edmonton (0.7 miles), Southbury Hotel, Enfield (0.7 miles), Old Orleans, Enfield (0.8 miles), Lincoln Arms, Bush Hill Park (0.8 miles) - see more nearby pubs
user reviews of the Picture Palace, Ponders End
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| This is a strange 'Spoons, more like a library than a pub as mentioned below. But for somewhere to get a decent pint and decent grub amongst all the fast food chicken shacks of the Hertford Road then it isn't too bad. And as I remember with fondness going to the Howard Hall for non-alcoholic pre-teen discos when it was a Dance Hall , it scores as another historic building that Wetherspoons has saved from the wrecking ball by turning it into a pub Gann - 2 Dec 2008 17:36 |
| One of the blander 'spoons with absolutely no atmosphere at all. BobOs - 13 Aug 2008 17:21 |
| I visited this pub to-day. The first time for about 6 months. It is somewhat quieter due to the smoking ban. There were only 2 guest ales on with a third promised but this did not materialise in the 4 hours or so I was there. There is a'new' menu available. I say new but it's only 4 actual new items. We ordered a new one, the fish pie. The contents were tasty but the pastry seemed to have been assembled by a trainee bricklayer! It was solid, not puff and slightly hard to digest. It was supposed to be accompanied by vegetables of the day. These consisted of peas, a mushroom, half a tomato and chips. I suppose in Wetherspoon's eyes chips would be 'vegetables of the day'! I feel the pub has regressed since my last visit and this is reflected in my marking of 4. Unless I am in the area I do not think I would visit again. wyndham - 24 Oct 2007 20:16 |
| I actually like the Picture Palace, if for no other reason than that it's the strangest damned pub I've ever been to. It's like a sanitised, civilised, silent, de-vikingised Viking feasting hall. It scares me a little. It's a lovely building - an old cinema (hence the name)with a great high roof, white walls and obsessively neat rows and rows of tables and chairs with a long aisle running down the middle from the entrance to the bar. And the place really is silent. Like a church. You can see people looking around nervously to make sure that they're not speaking too loudly. This Palace literally could be anywhere in any time and any time. As soon as you go in there you loose all perspective. On everything. You're haunted by the silence. Your thoughts disappear up into the rafters. You're enraptured by £2 bottles of Holsten Pills for hours on end. Because there’s something hermetic and closed about the Palace And then... And then eventually you leave And you step outside and you realise that this is the real world. You're hit by the noise and the feel of the wind on your face and you realise that you might as well have just spent a couple of hours in the TARDIS. Because there's something strange about the Palace. Something unnatural. And you swear you'll never go back again. And for a few months you don't. For a few months you don't even think of the place. But you always go back, because you realise that no matter how strange and unnatural it may be, it's a benign strangeness. dreake - 21 Jun 2007 15:31 |
| the most boring pub on the entire planet try not to cough or even breathe in here you might scare somebody pubchic - 13 May 2007 16:59 |
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