The Crown and Anchor, Covent Garden

Went here yesterday and ordered food with a friend at 1.10pm - nothing fancy, just two sandwiches.

Mine came at 1.50pm, so I just had enough time to cram a bit in before dashing back to work, however, they made things quicker for me because lo and behold, my chicken and bacon club LACKED BOTH CHICKEN AND BACON. Nice work there guys!

Needless to say I got a very speedy refund.

It's a shame really because the staff were nice and attentive and the pub is spacious and clean... especially for a pub in Covent Garden at lunch time...

Having said that, if they can monumentally mess up two sandwiches like that it's no wonder there's plenty of space at the bar.

Not going back.

24 Jul 2008 13:48

The Intrepid Fox, St Giles

Useless barstaff. Full of miscreants. Very unclean. Music too loud.

Love it.

Popped in on Monday to see if the change of venue had affected the atmosphere and it hadn't. The old Conservatory pub is an odd space and there hasn't ever been anything there that really works, but the Intrepid Fox does.

Just off-putting enough to mean that it never becomes full of suits, the aspiring classes, hen-parties or machos - veiling itself rather cleverly, though perhaps unintentionally, means that everybody else gets to enjoy a friendly, attitude free and (conversely, attitude packed) unique atmosphere.

Mitchell and Butler's fk up seems to have worked in favour for this set of people - shame the same can't be said for the other bars they so cack-handedly sold off.

Will be back, regularly.

6 Mar 2007 18:42

The Duke of Wellington, Soho

Absolutely awful place.

The bar staff are unfriendly and unhelpful. The toilets needs a damn good clean and the beerlines can't be cleaned that regularly.

The client�le are a strange mix of gay men that feel the need to distance themselves from the obvious homosexual genre connotations of G-A-Y bar, Comptons or the Village, yet cling together like drowning rats on the good ship BITTERNESS.

Full of lackwits. Staff, punters and all.

I'd recommend Comptons, The Yard or The Kings Arms over this retreat for the socially inept.

5 Mar 2007 01:17