The Lord Stanley, Camden

maybe you shouldnt be dragging your heavily pregnant girlfriend around pubs, or using her as some ultimate demand for blissful service - just a thought

2 Jan 2008 16:42

The Lord Stanley, Camden

The lord stanley doesn't f**k around, bad comments below are just people getting the worst of a north london crowd and i would bet money it was on weekend night. With no doormen it is nigh on impossible to control the clientele you receive as a popular pub, there is always a shift in the mood of a place......anyway, i think the food is pricey but i've never been disappointed with it. they have really cheap but excellent nibles and do a great job of making olives, and frsh baked breads etc seem way more apppealoing tyhan a lot of restaurants. To anyone with a bad word, dry your eyes, i swear you misery-guts arent happy unless you're miserable, the lord stanleyengages with its regulars, thats why it has them and keeps them, havent been there in months but am remmbered and looked after. Have to wait longer than i'd like, but guess, what it's OK, it doesnt kill me------time isnt money guys!!!! Nice one Ben and the guys!

2 Jan 2008 16:39

The Flask, Highgate

As a former AM of this pub it is undoubtedly one with some permanent issues, a lot of which are having to serve the largest number of people <>summer mainly<> with one of the smallest bars in the world. Food too, how wrong we got it sometimes <chop man, not you or your dad, you guys have a very selective memory about that whole experience, but in hindsight it would have been so much easier to give you your pennies back!>...Anyway, it's hard to make beautiful places like the flask run the way they should do. I fell in love with that place the first time i went there , <>Autumn time, the BEST time<>, but comments about the surly staff and the aloof attitudes are really misplaced. Having worked in the wrong end of hampstead for a long time in the freemasons the difference in clientele is marked....in the flask we generally had a very affluent but pleasant clientele, and people loved the building first before knowing the staff. A major influence on your experience of a pub is how long you wait for at the bar, how easy it is to find the toilets and a lot of very banal things that have a huge effect o0n the rest of your perceptions. I could site staff costs, penny-pinching ompanies like M&B shafting the workforce from the top down and the bottom up, but it's the world we live in.

We expect a great meal brought to our table for about �7, in about 15minutes, we expect the staff to know where anyone of the 22draught products are from, their ABV, let alone their f;avour.....we expect a lot, we wait 3minutews and call it ten, we decide somedays that we can swear at the people who serve it or get it wrong.....i'm not fighting back the tears here, but anyone who has worked in a bar for more 6hours a week for a summer would know that its a very organic thing. All you guys turning up on a saturday night and getting annoyed at the bustle of a busy pub - it's there to share, stay in or deal with it! So much to say, I can reccommend some wonderful pubs though and its a great thing when you find them.

2 Jan 2008 16:17