The Prince of Wales, Kensington - pub details
Address: 8, Kensington Church St, London, W8 4EP [map] [gmap]
Tel: 0871 951 1000 (ref 877) - calls cost 10p per minute plus network extras
High Street Kensington (0.1 miles), Notting Hill Gate (0.6 miles), Queensway (0.6 miles)
Kensington Olympia (1 mile), West Brompton (1.2 miles), London Paddington (1.2 miles)
Pub facilities/features:
- Quiz machines (Millionaire)
- Food served
- Wireless internet access (provided by The Cloud)
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> Current user rating: 5.2/10 (rated by 40 users)
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user reviews of the Prince of Wales, Kensington
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| Popped in for a bite to eat at 4pm on a Friday, leured by the sign outside advertising fish & chips. Nice little pub, reasonable selection of Fullers and Youngs and a fine portion of food, served quickly by very nice staff. I'm working in London for a few weeks and staying in the Copthorn Tara and I can see this becoming my temporary local till I find somthing better. 427scr - 7 Mar 2011 11:02 |
| I read the reviews before visiting this pub after a shopping trip into the high street. I was shocked to see how different everything was, they have had a refurbishment and a new menu. The outside looks nice however is quite hard to notice from the high street, lucky my wife was shopping everywhere. The staff were really nice and spoke to us for a while even thou the pub was quite busy, our food was really good. I am use to paying and getting acceptable food but this was really good. I had a few pints, the beer choice is simple but its a small pub, what do you expect. It seems the lines are cleaned often, I had a really good pint of STAR. I shall visit again when I return to london, overall deff a 9! aKaaa - 3 Dec 2010 03:39 |
| The Prince of Wales is a very narrow fronted pub on Kensington Church St a few yards off the High St itself. Although the frontage is tiny the interior is wedge shaped - widening gradually as you go past the bar into a more spacious rear area. The interior is ok but a little run down and rather like the Bunch of Grapes in Knightsbridge it seems mainly to be used as a refuge from the retail horrors of the High St. There were 5 ales on pump - Youngs Ordinary and London Gold, Spitfire, Pride and Bombardier. The pub has a bit of a transient feel to it and whilst perfectly acceptable for a quick Saturday afternoon pint I couldn't recommend it as somewhere for a long session. murgatroyd - 7 Nov 2010 10:50 |
| Rather like so many of the capital's pubs (those that manage to remain in business at least), this is attractive on the outside, and has character, but once within, the experience is rather more anodyne and even an extended visit probably struggle to embed much of the Prince of Wales's features in your memory with any permanence. Happily, unlike the last reviewer, I did not receive a poorly-kept pint, and that sampled was in reasonable condition - though I should say not outstanding in any sense. A large number of pumps sit on the bar, but only about 3 or 4 choices are on; several pumps were "doubled-up" and none of the offerings deviated from the standards one finds in numerous pubs across the city and beyond. Definitely worthy on inclusion on a crawl, although I would imagine most would struggle to mount a case for remaining in this pub for an all-night sesh. Depends on what you're in the market for, I suppose. TWG - 5 Aug 2010 16:55 |
| Visited here for the first time in yeats and was really dissappointed. The pint of Broadside I had was like vinegar and I had to reject it. To his credit the barman agreed and took it off. My replacement Landlord was not a great deal better but I persevered for about two thirds of a pint then left. Has potential but if the beers are always like this they will struggle. dagenhamdave - 7 Jun 2009 11:03 |
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