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This is a nice place to go for a drink if you enjoy some unusual beverages normally not available in your average London pub. From Normandy Cider to some decent claret to Green Chartreuse, you can sit down and get merry on some unusual tipple...... IF....and it's a MASSIVE IF......
you picked the one night of the decade that it isnt rammed to the rafters with silly wannabees and weirdos in fancy dress pretending to have a personality. In addition, you have a river of human garbage flowing by outside. You cant rip up and move the place 3 miles west, so I guess we just have to put up with it... for now.
25 Feb 2011 10:36
The Lamb and Flag, Covent Garden
HEAVENLY BUILDING, STENCH OF HELL.
Like many others who have commented here, I was struck by the smell of this joint, which actually made me sick to my stomach.
I used to come here a lot before the spineless sickos in government banned tobbacco use in public houses. In those days the smokey aroma of cigars and cigarettes masked the evil smell that permeates this place. Either it is a sewer problem, or years of food and drink rotting in the carpet, or the landlord has buried a few disatisfied punters under the floor boards! Either way it needs to be sorted out because it's ruining what could be a great little pub.
25 Feb 2011 10:11
I was drinking in a pub in Kent when a mate found a leaflet published by CAMRA which claimed, to my surprise that the Artillery Arms was Pub of the Year in Kent! "Let's get down there for a pint" I said.
Next day we walked in with open minds and a thirst on.
There was a good selection of beers, sure, and they were well kept. However at the bar sat three ugly thugs who gave off at feeling off dread. The place was deathly silent and the decore hadnt been changed, or cleaned, for decades. We felt so uncomfortable that we took our beers to the back of the pub, up a flight of stairs and found a busted piano, a box of childrens toys! and an old lady talking to herself. Id say if you are a blind man who likes his beers, then come on in.
17 Feb 2011 12:33
Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese, Fleet Street
GOOD LOCATION, BAD MANAGEMENT
This is one of the best buildings in London for a few beers. There are several rambling rooms over three floors, and Ive drank in all of them. It's a great thing to move around the place and there is real historic atmosphere.
Why then to Sam Smiths have a policy of only employing rude, scruffy, Ausie students, with long hair and earings, who have never tried a real ale in their short lives? These gormless Australian louts not only lack knowledge of the product they are selling, but also have zero charm or humour. Whats wrong with hiring real barmen who know their trade? Unless of course Smiths want to pay as little as possible to their staff.
17 Feb 2011 12:14
It's not often I say this, but I walked in once and turned straight around and walked out. This pub should be bulldosed down and buried, and if you want to save the tax payer some benefit fraud, then do it with the punters in it!
The curtains are still nicotine stained from before the smoking ban!
The customers sit outside drinking cans of super in the mornings while they wait for it to open!
The people sitting around have plastic pipes in their arms, oxygen masks and crutches, or are obese tatooed thugs propping up the bar. Rough, Ugly, Smelly, Sickening, take your pick. The only thing I'll say for it is the NHS should do a documentary there to put people off drinking.
14 Feb 2011 17:41
Great staff, great atmosphere, entertaining regulars.
There are usually lots of regulars with alcohol dependency, getting absolutely off their faces, and falling over outside. Some of the regs are in a truly terrible state, yellow teeth and guts the size of beer barrels. Some of them fight at the bar or fall asleep standing up. It's a good place to people watch.
14 Feb 2011 17:27
I stood at the bar with an old comrade and waited to be served by a beardy weirdy barman with a red bow tie that made him look like he was from the Nation of Islam. Some guy next to us asked the Beard for a cheese, tomato and onion sandswich. This is how it went:
Punter: Cheese, Tomato and onion sandwich please
Beard: No Tomatoes.
Punter: Ok, just cheese and onion please.
Beard: No cheese.
At this point the punter looked confused. I shouted to him to just buy an onion and eat it like an apple. The Beardy Barman stared at me with menace.
Great place to lose weight or just get s##t faced.
14 Feb 2011 15:54
The Marquis Of Westminster, Victoria
Some of the bar staff are nice in here, but not the manager, who never smiles! The drinks arent bad, and the bar is a good place to hang out, however dont use the toilets unless you have a gas mask. An evil stench comes from down in their cellar.
14 Feb 2011 15:33
SOMEONE WITH HEART NEEDS TO TAKE OVER THIS PLACE.
I have been to this pub twice in 2010, once to drink, one time to eat. I was bitterly disappointed on both occasions. The first time I popped in with a friend and we had a row with a creepy barman over our scotch and gingers! He poored small measures and I said,"double's please", at which point he audibly tutted! He then added a measure and a huge heap of ice. After telling him I only want 1 ice cube in winter he got very stroppy. The fact he hasnt been sacked is a bad reflection on the owner.
I later tried the restaurant out at lunchtime, and boy this was a bad mistake. We had their 'Famous' chicken pies. 'Infamous' is more like it. A small cheap microwavable white soup bowl, containing thin soup, with a few lumps of chicken and a think pastry balancing on top. Im talking prison canteen riot material here! After complaining that this wasnt a pie, the chef returned it with more lumps of bland chicken thrown in and another 5 minutes in the microwave presumably.
Hopefully this place will go under soon, and someone else can have a go, because it's a lovely building.
14 Feb 2011 15:23
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The Seven Stars, Chancery Lane
I have been drinking here for years and always wanted to know what the food was like. Well I found out..... Big time!
I ate the fish pie on a Saturday night and went home about 9pm. At midnight I awoke to feel my body contorting in shivers and I desperately staggered to the loo. Needless to say I threw up more than twice that night, and had the most chronic diarrhea of my life. I fainted at one point and my arms went numb. I spent the next two days in bed in a kind of coma, unable to move or eat and desperately weak.
I am planning to sue the woman who runs this filth hole, who allows cats to eat off the bar and God knows what else in the kitchen! I'm currently taking advice on how to report them for food health violations and how much I can expect to receive in compensation for the hurt I have suffered.
17 Mar 2014 21:54