BITE user comments - Colonel
Comments by Colonel
The Queen Adelaide, Wandsworth
Been here a few times now on various pretences and can't find much to grumble about. I went for a big meeting of mates in summer and the garden was really nice to sit and relax in, with plenty of booze and plenty of room.
Another weekend I was in for a big birthday bash and we had a nice big table in the decked area. Definitely have no complaints over seating, ambience etc. Maybe more beers would do the pub justice, but having eaten here too, I can safely say the food is nice too (have the lamb!!).
All in all a good pub, friendly clientele, stunning ladies in attendance every time I've been, there is good service and the food and drinks are pretty reasonably priced. I'll be going back, especially since the Jolly Gardener is now so bad.
27 Oct 2006 14:09
Jumped in here after work as needed a boozer near Chancery Lane in which to meet some mates.
Very pleasantly surprised. Considering it was 19:00, I was expecting the usual London City crowd, but there was no pretence, nor obnoxious gobshites.
The premium pure brewed lager was as good as some of the stuff I used to have in Germany and I got change out of �10 for three pints.....that doesn't happen that often in the middle of London!
Whether the decor is new or not, at least it feels like a pub and not yet another soul-less bar with a trendy name.
The service was swift and friendly, and they poured my lager with a decent Germanic head on it - nice and fresh!! Def go back!
5 Oct 2006 10:17
Holy Mother of God. I moved to Putney in 2005 and was instantly impressed with the Jolly G (seem to remember Remi looking after it and having a good team of staff in there). Whatever has happened since she left needs sorting, as the place is frankly a joke now.
In a business which relies on face to face customer relations, it's gone to the pits. We were in there on a Wednesday night for a mate's birthday and there was one guy behind the bar. The other two went glass collecting and subsequently washing and didn't bother serving, despite being 2 deep the length of the bar. It then took 15 minutes no less, just to pay my tab.
We popped in there yesterday after having a pint or two in the Coat and Badge (fantastic service) in order to have some nice beers and some food and it all went wrong. First up we had the most irritating, self-gratifying, irritatingly smug, French g1t serving us. Just babbled on about a load of nonsense, before mis-entering the most simple food order imaginable. When the food turned up, they'd not put wedges on the order, despite them being ordered very audibly (we did get a small plate free later after much griping).
The Customer service then came into it's own when I went to settle my tab and was served by what can only be described as a Kelly Osbourne "wannabe"! A track was on by '4hero' and she was humming it, so in making polite conversation I asked if knew who it was. She replied in a snotty, teenage manner with "Errr....No", so upon telling her, she said "never heard of them". I said "They're like Zero 7". "And they are?!" came the reply....so I'm thinking 'hang on, I'm trying to make polite conversation to alleviate the boredom of the most drawn out wait to be served ever, and this snotty little madam is all attitude and clearly slow on the uptake'......but then came the pinnacle....I gave her my tab and the following happened:
Me: Can I pay my tab please?
Kelly Osbourne: You haven't ordered anything.
Me: What?
Kelly Osbourne: You've not ordered.
Me: What do you mean? you've got my card and I want to pay my tab.
Kelly Osbourne: But you need to order something.
Me: Look. This is my "TAB" number and I want to pay my tab.
Kelly Osbourne: But you've not ordered from me.
Me: No. I've had a couple of rounds and some food and you have my card. Now find the tab, run it through the machine and let me leave.
Kelly Osbourne: Whatever.
So at this point, she gets my card out of the wallet behind the bar and gives it straight to me. So completely startled I hand it straight back to her and say "I'd like to pay my sodding tab!"....finally she managed it and I finally left.
Current status? Great pub with great beers....with the most idiotic, clueless, rude and inept staff I think I've ever witnessed in a pub. I think they should employ Anne from Little Britain as she'd do a much better job.
11 Sep 2006 10:29
went there on saturday on match day. Not many people in at all (basically empty) and food still took an hour to arrive. Then the American bar maid wouldn't put the Rugby on insisting "everyone's watching Hockey", everyone being just her as the only person near the bar. So much for looking after your customers! Rubbish pub, worse food, annoying, uninterested staff! Never going back - Saracen's Head is better!!!!
4 May 2005 18:32
Thomas More, Wapping
An absolute dive. Only used by people because there is nowhere else.
The staff were rude. One even huffing when I requested a clean glass as mine was covered in what looked dried out beans.
There is no atmosphere, the beers are not well kept and the music/TV always seems to be on a ridiculously high volume setting.
Only upside is the lunches are reasonably priced and the food isn't bad at all, plus you never have to wait long for it to turn up.
However, in the evenings avoid at all costs unless your knuckles drag on the floor and you like yelling "F*cking Hell" at footy on the TV as often as you can.
27 Oct 2006 14:20