The Fire Station, Waterloo - pub details
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Address: 149 Waterloo Road, London, SE1 8SB [map] [gmap]
Tel: 0871 917 0007 (ref 83)
Waterloo (0.2 miles), Lambeth North (0.3 miles), Southwark (0.3 miles)
London Waterloo (0.1 miles), London Waterloo East (0.1 miles), Blackfriars (0.7 miles)
Pub facilities/features:
- Food served, Real ale
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> Current user rating: 4.5/10 (rated by 87 users)
> Local guides: London pub guide, South East London pub guide
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Auberge, Waterloo (0.1 miles), Duke of Sussex, Waterloo (0.1 miles), Cubana Waterloo, Waterloo (0.1 miles), Ruby Lounge, Waterloo (0.1 miles), Wellington, Waterloo (0.1 miles) - see more nearby pubs
user reviews of the Fire Station, Waterloo
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| I had been looking forward to finally visiting this pub, as it is something of a landmark and is always spilling over with after-work drinkers. I was bitterly disappointed. Admittedly I did not visit at peak time and did not sample the alcohol - it was a Saturday morning for a cooked breakfast. But despite a selective menu, two staff behind the bar and only a handful of other customers, it took them 25 minutes to serve our group, and then much of the food was cold and the rest was only luke-warm. We asked for some of it to be replaced (hot bacon, a mushroom that didn't resemble a fossil) and it was, but then to add insult to injury, one of the bar staff then came and said that they had served more dishes than they had tickets for. We had received the right food, and eventually the mistake was identified - they had undercharged one person. Despite everything (the slow service, poor quality food and the fact that the payment issue was their mistake - we had all paid the amount they had asked us for), they still wanted the extra money. LCH - 17 Jun 2009 15:27 |
| Quite a good pub/restaurant/bar, good beers, reasonable service and prices and open later than most as a bonus (midnight I think at weekends?) konarob - 26 May 2009 12:10 |
| Any building that has been converted from a previous use into a pub has to be commended and this is a good conversion from its previous use. Located on Waterloo Road, and you can virtually fall into it from Waterloo Station. It’s a large cavernous place with high ceilings. As mentioned below it’s more of a trendy bar than a pub and was very busy and noisy on this particular Friday night. It does benefit from a decent range of real ales but I’m a bit of an old codger and do prefer my pubs a bit more traditional… Gann - 16 May 2009 12:59 |
| Popped in here briefly late on a midweek night. On the plus side, I liked the interior and especially the tiled walls. Perhaps unusually for what is more a bar/restaurant than a pub, three real ales were available (Pride, Brakspears and a guest ale), which is commendable. On the downside, the layout of the bar is wasteful - it wasn't very busy when I arrived yet every table was in use - too few of them with many of the tables being too big, is the answer I think. And the ale I had wasn't very well-served - I tried a half of the guest and didn't like it. And at £3.30 for two halves of said guest, it wasn't cheap. grecian - 7 May 2009 11:43 |
| We went there on Saturday night. Tellingly, it was pretty much empty at 9pm. We found out why! What a catalogue of bad service, bad food and ridiculous prices.. The barmaid brought us extremely short measured pints and was clearly terrified to take them back to be filled properly as 'her manager had poured them'. The food was ridiculously overpriced and mediocre, thin sinewy steaks which were on the cool side of tepid by the time they arrived and were not cooked in accordance with instructions, chips that could almost have been frozen, small portions. An extra charge for veg on top of over £16 for the above steak and chips. They ran out of balsamic vinegar for salad dressing. They also ran out of biscuits to accompany one of the puddings on the menu but we were only told 10 minutes after actually ordering that pudding. It was a very expensive and disappointing evening. I would never go back. lili - 24 Mar 2009 18:25 |
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